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While gradient descent has proven highly successful in learning connection weights for neural networks, the actual structure of these networks is usually determined by hand, or by other optimization algorithms. Here we describe a simple…

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We propose firefly neural architecture descent, a general framework for progressively and dynamically growing neural networks to jointly optimize the networks' parameters and architectures. Our method works in a steepest descent fashion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Lemeng Wu , Bo Liu , Peter Stone , Qiang Liu

In our work, we bridge deep neural network design with numerical differential equations. We show that many effective networks, such as ResNet, PolyNet, FractalNet and RevNet, can be interpreted as different numerical discretizations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yiping Lu , Aoxiao Zhong , Quanzheng Li , Bin Dong

With the continuous development of neural networks for computer vision tasks, more and more network architectures have achieved outstanding success. As one of the most advanced neural network architectures, DenseNet shortcuts all feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rui-Yang Ju , Ting-Yu Lin , Jia-Hao Jian , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Wei-Bin Yang

Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. In this paper, we study a fundamental question that arises when designing deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Nina Narodytska , Hongxia Jin

Equilibrium propagation has been proposed as a biologically plausible alternative to the backpropagation algorithm. The local nature of gradient computations, combined with the use of convergent RNNs to reach equilibrium states, make this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sankar Vinayak Elayedam , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has revolutionized computer vision, but training very deep networks has been challenging due to the vanishing gradient problem. This paper explores Residual Networks (ResNet), introduced by He et al.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xingyu Liu , Kun Ming Goh

The ability to design complex neural network architectures which enable effective training by stochastic gradient descent has been the key for many achievements in the field of deep learning. However, developing such architectures remains a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Marcus Märtens , Dario Izzo

Deep learning approaches, known for their ability to model complex relationships and fast execution, are increasingly being applied to solve large optimization problems. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Zisheng Zhou , Dengyu Zheng , Zirui Chen , Shixiang Chen

Residual connections remain ubiquitous in modern neural network architectures nearly a decade after their introduction. Their widespread adoption is often credited to their dramatically improved trainability: residual networks train faster,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Christian H. X. Ali Mehmeti-Göpel , Michael Wand

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity patterns, e.g., various types of skip connections. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xinyu Gong , Boris Hanin , Zhangyang Wang

Despite the rapid progress of neuromorphic computing, inadequate capacity and insufficient representation power of spiking neural networks (SNNs) severely restrict their application scope in practice. Residual learning and shortcuts have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yujie Wu , Man Yao , Guoqi Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Although deep networks have recently emerged as the model of choice for many computer vision problems, in order to yield good results they often require time-consuming architecture search. To combat the complexity of design choices, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Karim Ahmed , Lorenzo Torresani

Variational method and deep learning method are two mainstream powerful approaches to solve inverse problems in computer vision. To take advantages of advanced optimization algorithms and powerful representation ability of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Qingchao Zhang , Yunmei Chen

This paper investigates efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) to replace dense unstructured weight matrices with structured ones that possess desired properties. The challenge arises because the optimal weight matrix structure in popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Changwoo Lee , Hun-Seok Kim

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

Although deep feedforward neural networks share some characteristics with the primate visual system, a key distinction is their dynamics. Deep nets typically operate in serial stages wherein each layer completes its computation before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael C. Mozer , Samy Bengio

Over the past two decades, the feedforward neural network (FNN) optimization has been a key interest among the researchers and practitioners of multiple disciplines. The FNN optimization is often viewed from the various perspectives: the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Václav Snášel

Deep neural networks have made significant progress in the field of computer vision. Recent studies have shown that depth, width and shortcut connections of neural network architectures play a crucial role in their performance. One of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Rui-Yang Ju , Ting-Yu Lin , Jen-Shiun Chiang