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Activation functions are non-linearities in neural networks that allow them to learn complex mapping between inputs and outputs. Typical choices for activation functions are ReLU, Tanh, Sigmoid etc., where the choice generally depends on…
Decisions made by convolutional neural networks(CNN) can be understood and explained by visualizing discriminative regions on images. To this end, Class Activation Map (CAM) based methods were proposed as powerful interpretation tools,…
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In the literature on deep neural networks, there is considerable interest in developing activation functions that can enhance neural network performance. In recent years, there has been renewed scientific interest in proposing activation…
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In deep learning models, learning more with less data is becoming more important. This paper explores how neural networks with normalized Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernels can be trained to achieve better sample efficiency. Moreover, we…
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The activation function plays a crucial role in model optimisation, yet the optimal choice remains unclear. For example, the Sigmoid activation is the de-facto activation in balanced classification tasks, however, in imbalanced…
The development of Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) marks a significant shift from traditional multi-layer perceptrons in deep learning. Initially, KANs employed B-spline curves as their primary basis function, but their inherent…
Standard ML models fail to infer the context distribution and suitably adapt. For instance, the learning fails when the underlying distribution is actually a mixture of distributions with contradictory labels. Learning also fails if there…
In Neural Networks (NN), Adaptive Activation Functions (AAF) have parameters that control the shapes of activation functions. These parameters are trained along with other parameters in the NN. AAFs have improved performance of Neural…
While multifidelity modeling provides a cost-effective way to conduct uncertainty quantification with computationally expensive models, much greater efficiency can be achieved by adaptively deciding the number of required high-fidelity (HF)…
In this work we propose a new non-monotonic activation function: the modulus. The majority of the reported research on nonlinearities is focused on monotonic functions. We empirically demonstrate how by using the modulus activation function…
The asymptotic mean squared test error and sensitivity of the Random Features Regression model (RFR) have been recently studied. We build on this work and identify in closed-form the family of Activation Functions (AFs) that minimize a…
Designing effective neural networks requires tuning architectural elements. This study integrates fractional calculus into neural networks by introducing fractional order derivatives (FDO) as tunable parameters in activation functions,…