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We propose a generalized convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that first decomposes the input signal into subbands by an adaptive filter bank structure, and then uses convolutional layers to extract features from each subband…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Pavel Sinha , Ioannis Psaromiligkos , Zeljko Zilic

We propose a novel formulation of deep networks that do not use dot-product neurons and rely on a hierarchy of voting tables instead, denoted as Convolutional Tables (CT), to enable accelerated CPU-based inference. Convolutional layers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shay Dekel , Yosi Keller , Aharon Bar-Hillel

This paper extends the fully recursive perceptron network (FRPN) model for vectorial inputs to include deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which can accept multi-dimensional inputs. A FRPN consists of a recursive layer, which, given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Alberto Rossi , Markus Hagenbuchner , Franco Scarselli , Ah Chung Tsoi

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classifiers are traditionally designed to have sequential convolutional layers with a single output layer. This is based on the assumption that all target classes should be treated equally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Xinqi Zhu , Michael Bain

Recent approximations to backpropagation (BP) have mitigated many of BP's computational inefficiencies and incompatibilities with biology, but important limitations still remain. Moreover, the approximations significantly decrease accuracy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Adrien Journé , Hector Garcia Rodriguez , Qinghai Guo , Timoleon Moraitis

It is well known that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significant redundancy in their filter weights. Various methods have been proposed in the literature to compress trained CNNs. These include techniques like pruning weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Muhammad Tayyab , Abhijit Mahalanobis

An important line of research attempts to explain CNN image classifier predictions and intermediate layer representations in terms of human-understandable concepts. Previous work supports that deep representations are linearly separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Stylianos Asteriadis , Dimitrios Zarpalas

We propose local binary convolution (LBC), an efficient alternative to convolutional layers in standard convolutional neural networks (CNN). The design principles of LBC are motivated by local binary patterns (LBP). The LBC layer comprises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have massively impacted visual recognition in 2D images, and are now ubiquitous in state-of-the-art approaches. CNNs do not easily extend, however, to data that are not represented by regular grids, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Nitika Verma , Edmond Boyer , Jakob Verbeek

Transformer-based language models (LMs) are at the core of modern NLP, but their internal prediction construction process is opaque and largely not understood. In this work, we make a substantial step towards unveiling this underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Mor Geva , Avi Caciularu , Kevin Ro Wang , Yoav Goldberg

The regression of a functional response on a set of scalar predictors can be a challenging task, especially if there is a large number of predictors, or the relationship between those predictors and the response is nonlinear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-24 Sidi Wu , Cédric Beaulac , Jiguo Cao

Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) based image super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved significant performance improvement. However, most CNN-based methods mainly focus on feed-forward architecture design and neglect to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Huapeng Wu , Jie Gui , Jun Zhang , James T. Kwok , Zhihui Wei

This paper answers a fundamental question in artificial neural network (ANN) design: We do not need to build ANNs layer-by-layer sequentially to guarantee the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) property. Drawing inspiration from biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Liangwei Yang , Hengrui Zhang , Zihe Song , Jiawei Zhang , Weizhi Zhang , Jing Ma , Philip S. Yu

In natural vision, feedback connections support versatile visual inference capabilities such as making sense of the occluded or noisy bottom-up sensory information or mediating pure top-down processes such as imagination. However, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-01 Tahereh Toosi , Elias B. Issa

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a promising alternative to backpropagation (BP). Despite advancements in recent FF-based extensions, which have enhanced the original algorithm and adapted it to convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Qingchun Gong , Robert Bogdan Staszewski , Kai Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel neural network structure, namely \emph{feedforward sequential memory networks (FSMN)}, to model long-term dependency in time series without using recurrent feedback. The proposed FSMN is a standard…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Shiliang Zhang , Cong Liu , Hui Jiang , Si Wei , Lirong Dai , Yu Hu

This paper introduces a novel convolutional neural networks (CNN) framework tailored for end-to-end audio deep learning models, presenting advancements in efficiency and explainability. By benchmarking experiments on three standard speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Linh Vu , Thu Tran , Wern-Han Lim , Raphael Phan

We propose an inference procedure for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when partial evidence is available. Our method consists of a general feedback-based propagation approach (feedback-prop) that boosts the prediction accuracy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Tianlu Wang , Kota Yamaguchi , Vicente Ordonez

We present a formal and constructive simulation framework for nondeterministic finite automata (NFAs) using time-shared, depth-unrolled feedforward networks (TS-FFNs), i.e., acyclic unrolled computations with shared parameters that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar

The convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one of the deep learning models, has seen much success in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, designing CNN architectures still requires expert knowledge and a lot of trial and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Masanori Suganuma , Shinichi Shirakawa , Tomoharu Nagao