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Neural networks are complex functions of both their inputs and parameters. Much prior work in deep learning theory analyzes the distribution of network outputs at a fixed a set of inputs (e.g. a training dataset) over random initializations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-08 Mike Winer , Boris Hanin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many vision tasks, yet understanding their internal behavior remains challenging, particularly how different layers and activation channels contribute to class…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Md Rahat-uz- Zaman , Bei Wang , Paul Rosen

Redundancy in deep neural network (DNN) models has always been one of their most intriguing and important properties. DNNs have been shown to overparameterize, or extract a lot of redundant features. In this work, we explore the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Babajide O. Ayinde , Tamer Inanc , Jacek M. Zurada

This paper proposes to study neural networks through neuronal correlation, a statistical measure of correlated neuronal activity on the penultimate layer. We show that neuronal correlation can be efficiently estimated via weight matrix, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Gaojie Jin , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generated by sequentially performing linear and non-linear processes. Using a combination of linear and non-linear procedures is critical for generating a sufficiently deep feature space. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Yufei Hu , Nacim Belkhir , Jesus Angulo , Angela Yao , Gianni Franchi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a popular mathematical tool for function approximation due to their capability of modelling highly nonlinear functions. Their applications range from image classification and natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 SiQi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

We explore the connection between deep learning and information theory through the paradigm of diffusion models. A diffusion model converts noise into structured data by reinstating, imperfectly, information that is erased when data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Akhil Premkumar

Since the emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as a prominent technique in the field of computer vision, the ImageNet classification challenge has played a major role in advancing the state-of-the-art. While accuracy figures have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Alfredo Canziani , Adam Paszke , Eugenio Culurciello

A critical mystery in neuroscience lies in determining how anatomical structure impacts the complex functional dynamics of human thought. How does large-scale brain circuitry constrain states of neuronal activity and transitions between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-08 Shi Gu , Matthew Cieslak , Benjamin Baird , Sarah F. Muldoon , Scott T. Grafton , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

We develop a deep neural network (DNN) that accounts for the phase behaviors of polymer-containing liquid mixtures. The key component in the DNN consists of a theory-embedded layer that captures the characteristic features of the phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 Issei Nakamura

Artificial neural networks which are inspired from the learning mechanism of brain have achieved great successes in many problems, especially those with deep layers. In this paper, we propose a nucleus neural network (NNN) and corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Jia Liu , Maoguo Gong , Haibo He

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

Maximum Entropy models can be inferred from large data-sets to uncover how collective dynamics emerge from local interactions. Here, such models are employed to investigate neurons recorded by multielectrode arrays in the human and monkey…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-11 Trang-Anh Nghiem , Bartosz Telenczuk , Olivier Marre , Alain Destexhe , Ulisse Ferrari

We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

The use of deep neural network (DNN) models as surrogates for linear and nonlinear structural dynamical systems is explored. The goal is to develop DNN based surrogates to predict structural response, i.e., displacements and accelerations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

The theoretical explanation for deep neural network (DNN) is still an open problem. In this paper DNN is considered as a discrete-time dynamical system due to its layered structure. The complexity provided by the nonlinearity in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Husheng Li

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

The developments of deep neural networks (DNN) in recent years have ushered a brand new era of artificial intelligence. DNNs are proved to be excellent in solving very complex problems, e.g., visual recognition and text understanding, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Qiang Hu , Hao Zhang

What might sound like the beginning of a joke has become an attractive prospect for many cognitive scientists: the use of deep neural network models (DNNs) as models of human behavior in perceptual and cognitive tasks. Although DNNs have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Wei Ji Ma , Benjamin Peters