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Model interpretability is a requirement in many applications in which crucial decisions are made by users relying on a model's outputs. The recent movement for "algorithmic fairness" also stipulates explainability, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xuan Liu , Xiaoguang Wang , Stan Matwin

The layers of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be used to alter the resolution of their inputs, but the scaling factors are limited to integer values. However, in many image and video processing applications, the ability to resize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Li-Heng Chen , Christos G. Bampis , Zhi Li , Chao Chen , Alan C. Bovik

Inference in nonlinear continuous stochastic processes on trees is challenging, particularly when observations are sparse and the topology is complex. Exact smoothing via Doob's $h$-transform is intractable for general nonlinear dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Gefan Yang , Frank van der Meulen , Stefan Sommer

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) offer the potential for reliable uncertainty quantification and interpretability, which are critical for trustworthy AI in high-stakes domains. However, existing methods often struggle with issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Romeo Sommerfeld , Christian Helms , Ralf Herbrich

Automated design methods for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been developed in order to increase the design productivity. We propose a neuroevolution method capable of evolving and optimizing CNNs with respect to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Filip Badan , Lukas Sekanina

Currently, increasingly deeper neural networks have been applied to improve their accuracy. In contrast, We propose a novel wider Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) architecture, motivated by the Multi-column Deep Neural Networks and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Xiaobo Huang

The remarkable performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is entangled with their huge number of uninterpretable parameters, which has become the bottleneck limiting the exploitation of their full potential. Towards network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yuchao Li , Rongrong Ji , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Chenqian Yan , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Ling Shao

This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., the explainer uses interpretable visual concepts to explain features in middle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Quanshi Zhang , Yu Yang , Ying Nian Wu

In this paper we propose cross-modal convolutional neural networks (X-CNNs), a novel biologically inspired type of CNN architectures, treating gradient descent-specialised CNNs as individual units of processing in a larger-scale network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-26 Petar Veličković , Duo Wang , Nicholas D. Lane , Pietro Liò

In this study, we introduce Convolutional Transformer Neural Collaborative Filtering (CTNCF), a novel approach aimed at enhancing recommendation systems by effectively capturing high-order structural information in user-item interactions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Pang Li , Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah , Hafiz Mohd Sarim

We propose a learnable content adaptive front end for audio signal processing. Before the modern advent of deep learning, we used fixed representation non-learnable front-ends like spectrogram or mel-spectrogram with/without neural…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Prateek Verma , Chris Chafe

Steerable convolutional neural networks (CNNs) provide a general framework for building neural networks equivariant to translations and transformations of an origin-preserving group $G$, such as reflections and rotations. They rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Maksim Zhdanov , Nico Hoffmann , Gabriele Cesa

Training neural networks has traditionally relied on backpropagation (BP), a gradient-based algorithm that, despite its widespread success, suffers from key limitations in both biological and hardware perspectives. These include backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Nazmus Saadat As-Saquib , A N M Nafiz Abeer , Hung-Ta Chien , Byung-Jun Yoon , Suhas Kumar , Su-in Yi

Convolutional deep sets are the architecture of a deep neural network (DNN) that can model stationary stochastic process. This architecture uses the kernel smoother and the DNN to construct the translation equivariant functional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Yohan Jung , Jinkyoo Park

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in domains like computer vision, mostly reduced the need for handcrafted features due to its ability to learn the problem-specific features from the raw input data. However, the selection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Shiv Ram Dubey , Viswanath Pulabaigari , Snehasis Mukherjee

CoVariance Neural Networks (VNNs) perform graph convolutions on the empirical covariance matrix of signals defined over finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, motivated by robustness and transferability properties. Yet, little is known about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Claudio Battiloro , Andrea Cavallo , Elvin Isufi

Minimal changes to neural architectures (e.g. changing a single hyperparameter in a key layer), can lead to significant gains in predictive performance in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). In this work, we present a new approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mats L. Richter , Christopher Pal

Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with back-propagation (BP) is time-consuming and resource-intensive particularly in view of the need to visit the dataset multiple times. In contrast, analytic learning attempts to obtain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Huiping Zhuang , Zhiping Lin , Yimin Yang , Kar-Ann Toh

Over-the-air analog computation allows offloading computation to the wireless environment through carefully constructed transmitted signals. In this paper, we design and implement the first-of-its-kind over-the-air convolution and…