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Activation functions are crucial for deep neural networks. This novel work frames the problem of training neural network with learnable polynomial activation functions as a polynomial optimization problem, which is solvable by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Linghao Zhang , Jiawang Nie , Tingting Tang

This paper proposes a preference neural network (PNN) to address the problem of indifference preferences orders with new activation function. PNN also solves the Multi-label ranking problem, where labels may have indifference preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ayman Elgharabawy , Mukesh Prasad , Chin-Teng Lin

In this work, a dense recurrent convolutional neural network (DRCNN) was constructed to detect sleep disorders including arousal, apnea and hypopnea using Polysomnography (PSG) measurement channels provided in the 2018 Physionet challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bahareh Pourbabaee , Matthew Howe-Patterson , Matthew Patterson , Frederic Benard

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) achieve human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. New hardware platforms using lower precision arithmetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang , Benjamin Scott Mashford

We present an automated machine learning approach for uncalibrated photometric stereo (PS). Our work aims at discovering lightweight and computationally efficient PS neural networks with excellent surface normal accuracy. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Francesco Sarno , Suryansh Kumar , Berk Kaya , Zhiwu Huang , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Deep learning has been widely used in many fields, but the model training process usually consumes massive computational resources and time. Therefore, designing an efficient neural network training method with a provable convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Lianke Qin , Zhao Song , Yuanyuan Yang

We can better understand deep neural networks by identifying which features each of their neurons have learned to detect. To do so, researchers have created Deep Visualization techniques including activation maximization, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anh Nguyen , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by utilizing sparse and asynchronous processing through discrete spike-based computation. However, the performance of deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Eric Jahns , Davi Moreno , Michel A. Kinsy

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

How can a machine learn to recognize visual attributes emerging out of online community without a definitive supervised dataset? This paper proposes an automatic approach to discover and analyze visual attributes from a noisy collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Sirion Vittayakorn , Takayuki Umeda , Kazuhiko Murasaki , Kyoko Sudo , Takayuki Okatani , Kota Yamaguchi

A new data-driven method for operator learning of stochastic differential equations(SDE) is proposed in this paper. The central goal is to solve forward and inverse stochastic problems more effectively using limited data. Deep operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-08 Jiahao Zhang , Shiqi Zhang , Guang Lin

Artificial neural networks (ANN), typically referred to as neural networks, are a class of Machine Learning algorithms and have achieved widespread success, having been inspired by the biological structure of the human brain. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Murilo Gustineli

Neuron reconstruction is essential to generate exquisite neuron connectivity map for understanding brain function. Despite the significant amount of effect that has been made on automatic reconstruction methods, manual tracing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Donghuan Lu , Sujun Zhao , Peng Xie , Kai Ma , Lijuan Liu , Yefeng Zheng

Deep Neural networks are efficient and flexible models that perform well for a variety of tasks such as image, speech recognition and natural language understanding. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) generate a keen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yesmina Jaafra , Jean Luc Laurent , Aline Deruyver , Mohamed Saber Naceur

Automated brain lesions detection is an important and very challenging clinical diagnostic task because the lesions have different sizes, shapes, contrasts, and locations. Deep Learning recently has shown promising progress in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Mina Rezaei , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Estimating matrices in the symmetric positive-definite (SPD) cone is of interest for many applications ranging from computer vision to graph learning. While there exist various convex optimization-based estimators, they remain limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Can Pouliquen , Mathurin Massias , Titouan Vayer

Fully-automatic execution is the ultimate goal for many Computer Vision applications. However, this objective is not always realistic in tasks associated with high failure costs, such as medical applications. For these tasks, semi-automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jing Yu Koh , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Quang-Trung Truong , Sai-Kit Yeung , Alexander Binder

Deep convolutional neural networks demonstrate impressive results in the super-resolution domain. A series of studies concentrate on improving peak signal noise ratio (PSNR) by using much deeper layers, which are not friendly to constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Hailong Ma , Ruijun Xu , Qingyuan Li

Diversity conveys advantages in nature, yet homogeneous neurons typically comprise the layers of artificial neural networks. Here we construct neural networks from neurons that learn their own activation functions, quickly diversify, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Anshul Choudhary , Anil Radhakrishnan , John F. Lindner , Sudeshna Sinha , William L. Ditto

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices such as FPGAs requires a careful balance among latency, power, and hardware resource usage, while maintaining high accuracy. Existing Lookup Table (LUT)-based DNNs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Binglei Lou , Ruilin Wu , Philip Leong