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Feature Learning aims to extract relevant information contained in data sets in an automated fashion. It is driving force behind the current deep learning trend, a set of methods that have had widespread empirical success. What is lacking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Brendan van Rooyen , Robert C. Williamson

Understanding how deep neural networks learn representations remains a central challenge in machine learning theory. In this work, we propose a feature-centric framework for analyzing neural network training by relating weight updates to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Taehun Cha , Daniel Beaglehole , Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Donghun Lee

This paper reviews recent studies in understanding neural-network representations and learning neural networks with interpretable/disentangled middle-layer representations. Although deep neural networks have exhibited superior performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Quanshi Zhang , Song-Chun Zhu

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

Our goal is to provide a review of deep learning methods which provide insight into structured high-dimensional data. Rather than using shallow additive architectures common to most statistical models, deep learning uses layers of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) have been successfully used in a number of tasks from image recognition to natural language processing. They are trained using large training sets on large models, making them computationally and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Sek Chai , Aswin Raghavan , David Zhang , Mohamed Amer , Tim Shields

The purpose of feature extraction on convolutional neural networks is to reuse deep representations learnt for a pre-trained model to solve a new, potentially unrelated problem. However, raw feature extraction from all layers is unfeasible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Armand Vilalta , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Jesus Labarta , Eduard Ayguadé

Deep reinforcement learning techniques have demonstrated superior performance in a wide variety of environments. As improvements in training algorithms continue at a brisk pace, theoretical or empirical studies on understanding what these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Katia Sycara

Despite the highest classification accuracy in wide varieties of application areas, artificial neural network has one disadvantage. The way this Network comes to a decision is not easily comprehensible. The lack of explanation ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Tameru Hailesilassie

Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aziz Bacha , Thomas George

This paper develops a randomized approach for incrementally building deep neural networks, where a supervisory mechanism is proposed to constrain the random assignment of the weights and biases, and all the hidden layers have direct links…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Dianhui Wang , Ming Li

Hypernetworks are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network. We formulate the hypernetwork training objective as a compromise between accuracy and diversity, where the diversity takes into account trivial symmetry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-10 Lior Deutsch

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on numerous applications. However, it is difficult to tell beforehand if a DNN receiving an input will deliver the correct output since their decision criteria are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Julia Lust , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision, natural language processing, and other areas. However, training and fine-tuning a deep learning model is computationally intensive and time-consuming. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform traditional machine learning algorithms in a broad variety of application domains due to their effectiveness in modeling complex problems and handling high-dimensional datasets. Many…

This paper proposes a straightforward and cost-effective approach to assess whether a deep neural network (DNN) relies on the primary concepts of training samples or simply learns discriminative, yet simple and irrelevant features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mohammad Mahdi Mehmanchi , Mahbod Nouri , Mohammad Sabokrou

Learning and inferring features that generate sensory input is a task continuously performed by cortex. In recent years, novel algorithms and learning rules have been proposed that allow neural network models to learn such features from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-13 Yasser Roudi , Graham Taylor

The computer vision literature shows that randomly weighted neural networks perform reasonably as feature extractors. Following this idea, we study how non-trained (randomly weighted) convolutional neural networks perform as feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Jordi Pons , Xavier Serra

Knowledge extraction is used to convert neural networks into symbolic descriptions with the objective of producing more comprehensible learning models. The central challenge is to find an explanation which is more comprehensible than the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Simon Odense , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Developing strong AI signifies the arrival of technological singularity, contributing greatly to advancing human civilization and resolving social issues. Neural networks (NNs) and deep learning, which utilize NNs, are expected to lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Kei Itoh