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The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept for learning of the parameters in a neural network. Our idea is grounded on modeling a learning problem that addresses a trade-off between (i) satisfying local objectives at each node and (ii)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Dimche Kostadinov , Behrooz Razdehi , Slava Voloshynovskiy

This work studies the design of neural networks that can process the weights or gradients of other neural networks, which we refer to as neural functional networks (NFNs). Despite a wide range of potential applications, including learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Allan Zhou , Kaien Yang , Kaylee Burns , Adriano Cardace , Yiding Jiang , Samuel Sokota , J. Zico Kolter , Chelsea Finn

Network representation learning (NRL) advances the conventional graph mining of social networks, knowledge graphs, and complex biomedical and physics information networks. Over dozens of network representation learning algorithms have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jingya Zhou , Ling Liu , Wenqi Wei , Jianxi Fan

A common assumption about neural networks is that they can learn an appropriate internal representations on their own, see e.g. end-to-end learning. In this work we challenge this assumption. We consider two simple tasks and show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Krisztian Buza

Multimodal problems are omnipresent in the real world: autonomous driving, robotic grasping, scene understanding, etc... We draw from the well-developed analysis of similarity to provide an example of a problem where neural networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Hugues Moreau , Andréa Vassilev , Liming Chen

Neural models learn data representations that lie on low-dimensional manifolds, yet modeling the relation between these representational spaces is an ongoing challenge. By integrating spectral geometry principles into neural modeling, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Fumero , Marco Pegoraro , Valentino Maiorca , Francesco Locatello , Emanuele Rodolà

The internal representations learned by deep networks are often sensitive to architecture-specific choices, raising questions about the stability, alignment, and transferability of learned structure across models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

Neural networks often operate in the overparameterized regime, in which there are far more parameters than training samples, allowing the training data to be fit perfectly. That is, training the network effectively learns an interpolating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Suzanna Parkinson , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett

We leverage probabilistic models of neural representations to investigate how residual networks fit classes. To this end, we estimate class-conditional density models for representations learned by deep ResNets. We then use these models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Michał Jamroż , Marcin Kurdziel

Performing machine learning on structured data is complicated by the fact that such data does not have vectorial form. Therefore, multiple approaches have emerged to construct vectorial representations of structured data, from kernel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Benjamin Paaßen , Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli , Alessandro Sperduti

Neural networks trained on standard image classification data sets are shown to be less resistant to data set bias. It is necessary to comprehend the behavior objective function that might correspond to superior performance for data with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Gnyanesh Bangaru , Lalith Bharadwaj Baru , Kiran Chakravarthula

The extent to which different neural or artificial neural networks (models) rely on equivalent representations to support similar tasks remains a central question in neuroscience and machine learning. Prior work has typically compared…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-06 Jialin Wu , Shreya Saha , Yiqing Bo , Meenakshi Khosla

In certain situations, neural networks are trained upon data that obey underlying symmetries. However, the predictions do not respect the symmetries exactly unless embedded in the network structure. In this work, we introduce architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Marios Mattheakis , Pavlos Protopapas

Representations learnt through deep neural networks tend to be highly informative, but opaque in terms of what information they learn to encode. We introduce an approach to probabilistic modelling that learns to represent data with two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Ilya Feige

Path loss prediction is a beneficial tool for efficient use of the radio frequency spectrum. Building on prior research on high-resolution map-based path loss models, this paper studies convolutional neural network input representations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ryan G. Dempsey , Jonathan Ethier , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Deep learning algorithms demonstrate a surprising ability to learn high-dimensional tasks from limited examples. This is commonly attributed to the depth of neural networks, enabling them to build a hierarchy of abstract, low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Francesco Cagnetta , Leonardo Petrini , Umberto M. Tomasini , Alessandro Favero , Matthieu Wyart

Residual mappings have been shown to perform representation learning in the first layers and iterative feature refinement in higher layers. This interplay, combined with their stabilizing effect on the gradient norms, enables them to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Mathias Lechner , Ramin Hasani , Zahra Babaiee , Radu Grosu , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger , Sepp Hochreiter

This work proposes an algorithm for explicitly constructing a pair of neural networks that linearize and reconstruct an embedded submanifold, from finite samples of this manifold. Our such-generated neural networks, called Flattening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Michael Psenka , Druv Pai , Vishal Raman , Shankar Sastry , Yi Ma

Artificial neural systems trained using reinforcement, supervised, and unsupervised learning all acquire internal representations of high dimensional input. To what extent these representations depend on the different learning objectives is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-09 Grace W. Lindsay , Josh Merel , Tom Mrsic-Flogel , Maneesh Sahani