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Realistic modeling of brain involves large number of neurons. The important question is how this size affects transmission efficiency? Here, these issue is studied in terms of Shannon's Theory. Mutual Information between input and output…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-26 Bartosz Paprocki , Agnieszka Pregowska , Janusz Szczepanski

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various application domains. Nevertheless, a large number of weights in pre-trained deep neural networks prohibit them from being deployed on smartphones and embedded systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shibo Yao , Dantong Yu , Ioannis Koutis

Deep learning models are trained and deployed in multiple domains. Increasing usage of deep learning models alarms the usage of memory consumed while computation by deep learning models. Existing approaches for reducing memory consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mahendran N

Deep neural networks are powerful tools to detect hidden patterns in data and leverage them to make predictions, but they are not designed to understand uncertainty and estimate reliable probabilities. In particular, they tend to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Bat-Sheva Einbinder , Yaniv Romano , Matteo Sesia , Yanfei Zhou

Feed-forward deep neural networks have been used extensively in various machine learning applications. Developing a precise understanding of the underling behavior of neural networks is crucial for their efficient deployment. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Pejman Khadivi , Ravi Tandon , Naren Ramakrishnan

We consider artificial neurons which will update their weight coefficients with an internal rule based on backpropagation, rather than using it as an external training procedure. To achieve this we include the backpropagation error estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. N. Nazarov

Recent studies have shown that many important aspects of neural network learning take place within the very earliest iterations or epochs of training. For example, sparse, trainable sub-networks emerge (Frankle et al., 2019), gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jonathan Frankle , David J. Schwab , Ari S. Morcos

We demonstrate that there is significant redundancy in the parameterization of several deep learning models. Given only a few weight values for each feature it is possible to accurately predict the remaining values. Moreover, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Misha Denil , Babak Shakibi , Laurent Dinh , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Nando de Freitas

Theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that the depth of neural networks is crucial for their success. However, training becomes more difficult as depth increases, and training of very deep networks remains an open problem. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Rupesh Kumar Srivastava , Klaus Greff , Jürgen Schmidhuber

This article describes a complex network model whose weights are proportional to the difference between uniformly distributed ``fitness'' values assigned to the nodes. It is shown both analytically and experimentally that the strength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Gonzalo Travieso

Machine learning methods are commonly used to solve inverse problems, wherein an unknown signal must be estimated from few indirect measurements generated via a known acquisition procedure. In particular, neural networks perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hannah Laus , Suzanna Parkinson , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Felix Krahmer , Rebecca Willett

Supervised training of deep neural nets typically relies on minimizing cross-entropy. However, in many domains, we are interested in performing well on metrics specific to the application. In this paper we propose a direct loss minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Yang Song , Alexander G. Schwing , Richard S. Zemel , Raquel Urtasun

Training a neural network is a monolithic endeavor, akin to carving knowledge into stone: once the process is completed, editing the knowledge in a network is hard, since all information is distributed across the network's weights. We here…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Robert Geirhos , Priyank Jaini , Austin Stone , Sourabh Medapati , Xi Yi , George Toderici , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Underpinning the past decades of work on the design, initialization, and optimization of neural networks is a seemingly innocuous assumption: that the network is trained on a \textit{stationary} data distribution. In settings where this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Clare Lyle , Zeyu Zheng , Khimya Khetarpal , Hado van Hasselt , Razvan Pascanu , James Martens , Will Dabney

Weight decay is a broadly used technique for training state-of-the-art deep networks from image classification to large language models. Despite its widespread usage and being extensively studied in the classical literature, its role…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Francesco D'Angelo , Maksym Andriushchenko , Aditya Varre , Nicolas Flammarion

This work maps deep neural networks to classical Ising spin models, allowing them to be described using statistical thermodynamics. The density of states shows that structures emerge in the weights after they have been trained --…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-20 Dusan Stosic , Darko Stosic , Borko Stosic

Deep neural networks have been shown to easily overfit to biased training data with label noise or class imbalance. Meta-learning algorithms are commonly designed to alleviate this issue in the form of sample reweighting, by learning a meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hongxin Wei , Lei Feng , Rundong Wang , Bo An

In recent years, deep neural network exhibits its powerful superiority on information discrimination in many computer vision applications. However, the capacity of deep neural network architecture is still a mystery to the researchers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aosen Wang , Hua Zhou , Wenyao Xu , Xin Chen

Techniques for understanding the functioning of complex machine learning models are becoming increasingly popular, not only to improve the validation process, but also to extract new insights about the data via exploratory analysis. Though…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Irene Kim , Rushil Anirudh , Peer-Timo Bremer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often examined at the level of their response to input, such as analyzing the mutual information between nodes and data sets. Yet DNNs can also be examined at the level of causation, exploring "what does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Simon Mattsson , Eric J. Michaud , Erik Hoel