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Depth prediction plays a key role in understanding a 3D scene. Several techniques have been developed throughout the years, among which Convolutional Neural Network has recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on estimating depth from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Binghan Li , Yindong Hua , Yifeng Liu , Mi Lu

Deluge Networks (DelugeNets) are deep neural networks which efficiently facilitate massive cross-layer information inflows from preceding layers to succeeding layers. The connections between layers in DelugeNets are established through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Jason Kuen , Xiangfei Kong , Gang Wang , Yap-Peng Tan

Deep learning demonstrated major abilities in solving many kinds of different real-world problems in computer vision literature. However, they are still strained by simple reasoning tasks that humans consider easy to solve. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabio Carrara , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Achieving visual reasoning is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. In the last decade, several studies have applied deep neural networks (DNNs) to the task of learning visual relations from images, with modest results in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Guillermo Puebla , Jeffrey S. Bowers

This paper revives Densely Connected Convolutional Networks (DenseNets) and reveals the underrated effectiveness over predominant ResNet-style architectures. We believe DenseNets' potential was overlooked due to untouched training methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Donghyun Kim , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

Integrating functions on discrete domains into neural networks is key to developing their capability to reason about discrete objects. But, discrete domains are (1) not naturally amenable to gradient-based optimization, and (2) incompatible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nikolaos Karalias , Joshua Robinson , Andreas Loukas , Stefanie Jegelka

We present a novel framework for iterative visual reasoning. Our framework goes beyond current recognition systems that lack the capability to reason beyond stack of convolutions. The framework consists of two core modules: a local module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xinlei Chen , Li-Jia Li , Li Fei-Fei , Abhinav Gupta

Relational reasoning is the ability to infer relations that jointly bind multiple entities, attributes, or variables. This ability is central to scientific reasoning, but existing evaluations of relational reasoning in large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lukas Fesser , Yasha Ektefaie , Ada Fang , Sham M. Kakade , Marinka Zitnik

Humans are able to explain their reasoning. On the contrary, deep neural networks are not. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by introducing a new way to design interpretable neural networks for classification, inspired by physiological…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-20 Shane Barratt

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels is a basic step in Diabetic retinopathy(DR) detection. Most methods based on deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) have small receptive fields, and hence they are unable to capture global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yun Jiang , Ning Tan , Tingting Peng , Hai Zhang

Relationships among objects play a crucial role in image understanding. Despite the great success of deep learning techniques in recognizing individual objects, reasoning about the relationships among objects remains a challenging task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Bo Dai , Yuqi Zhang , Dahua Lin

Deep learning architectures are showing great promise in various computer vision domains including image classification, object detection, event detection and action recognition. In this study, we investigate various aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Hilal Ergun , Mustafa Sert

In sentence modeling and classification, convolutional neural network approaches have recently achieved state-of-the-art results, but all such efforts process word vectors sequentially and neglect long-distance dependencies. To exploit both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Mingbo Ma , Liang Huang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

The driving force behind deep networks is their ability to compactly represent rich classes of functions. The primary notion for formally reasoning about this phenomenon is expressive efficiency, which refers to a situation where one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Nadav Cohen , Ronen Tamari , Amnon Shashua

In deep learning, dense layer connectivity has become a key design principle in deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling efficient information flow and strong performance across a range of applications. In this work, we model densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jinshu Huang , Haibin Su , Xue-Cheng Tai , Chunlin Wu

Transformer architectures have achieved great success in solving natural language tasks, which learn strong language representations from large-scale unlabeled texts. In this paper, we seek to go further beyond and explore a new logical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jianshu Chen

We consider the problem of selective prediction (also known as reject option) in deep neural networks, and introduce SelectiveNet, a deep neural architecture with an integrated reject option. Existing rejection mechanisms are based mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Yonatan Geifman , Ran El-Yaniv

Relational reasoning is a central component of intelligent behavior, but has proven difficult for neural networks to learn. The Relation Network (RN) module was recently proposed by DeepMind to solve such problems, and demonstrated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Martin Andrews , Sam Witteveen

Pre-trained large language models (LMs) struggle to perform logical reasoning reliably despite advances in scale and compositionality. In this work, we tackle this challenge through the lens of symbolic programming. We propose DSR-LM, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hanlin Zhang , Jiani Huang , Ziyang Li , Mayur Naik , Eric Xing

Residual network (ResNet) and densely connected network (DenseNet) have significantly improved the training efficiency and performance of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) mainly for object classification tasks. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Mina Jafari , Dorothee Auer , Susan Francis , Jonathan Garibaldi , Xin Chen