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The paper discusses the capabilities of multilayer perceptron neural networks implementing metric recognition methods, for which the values of the weights are calculated analytically by formulas. Comparative experiments in training a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Polad Geidarov

Artificial neural networks can acquire many aspects of human knowledge from data, making them promising as models of human learning. But what those networks can learn depends upon their inductive biases -- the factors other than the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Gianluca Bencomo , Max Gupta , Ioana Marinescu , R. Thomas McCoy , Thomas L. Griffiths

We propose a novel Bayesian neural network architecture that can learn invariances from data alone by inferring a posterior distribution over different weight-sharing schemes. We show that our model outperforms other non-invariant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Nikolaos Mourdoukoutas , Marco Federici , Georges Pantalos , Mark van der Wilk , Vincent Fortuin

In this paper we analyze the classification performance of neural network structures without parametric inference. Making use of neural architecture search, we empirically demonstrate that it is possible to find random weight architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Designing neural networks typically relies on manual trial and error or a neural architecture search (NAS) followed by weight training. The former is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the latter often discretizes architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

We present a weight similarity measure method that can quantify the weight similarity of non-convex neural networks. To understand the weight similarity of different trained models, we propose to extract the feature representation from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Guangcong Wang , Guangrun Wang , Wenqi Liang , Jianhuang Lai

To efficiently adapt large models or to train generative models of neural representations, Hypernetworks have drawn interest. While hypernetworks work well, training them is cumbersome, and often requires ground truth optimized weights for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Eric Hedlin , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli , Kwang Moo Yi , Shweta Mahajan

Weight-sharing is one of the pillars behind Convolutional Neural Networks and their successes. However, in physical neural systems such as the brain, weight-sharing is implausible. This discrepancy raises the fundamental question of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead , Nicholas LaHaye , Pierre Baldi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks on graph-structured data, primarily through the use of learned weights in message passing layers. In this paper, we demonstrate that random weights can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Thu Bui , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Bruno Ribeiro , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Moshe Eliasof

Generative modeling of neural network parameters is often tied to architectures because standard parameter representations rely on known weight-matrix dimensions. Generation is further complicated by permutation symmetries that allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiwoo Kim , Swarajh Mehta , Hao-Lun Hsu , Hyunwoo Ryu , Yudong Liu , Miroslav Pajic

A particle filtering approach is suggested for the training of multi-layer neural networks without utilizing gradients calculation. The network weights are considered to be the components of the estimated state-vector of a noise driven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Isaac Yaesh , Natan Grinfeld

We propose a neural network weight encoding method for network property prediction that utilizes set-to-set and set-to-vector functions to efficiently encode neural network parameters. Our approach is capable of encoding neural networks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bruno Andreis , Soro Bedionita , Philip H. S. Torr , Sung Ju Hwang

Assumptions about invariances or symmetries in data can significantly increase the predictive power of statistical models. Many commonly used models in machine learning are constraint to respect certain symmetries in the data, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Mark van der Wilk

Neural networks are trained by choosing an architecture and training the parameters. The choice of architecture is often by trial and error or with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. While NAS provides some automation, it often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

Neural networks are nowadays highly successful despite strong hardness results. The existing hardness results focus on the network architecture, and assume that the network's weights are arbitrary. A natural approach to settle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Amit Daniely , Gal Vardi

Modern Neural Architecture Search methods have repeatedly broken state-of-the-art results for several disciplines. The super-network, a central component of many such methods, enables quick estimates of accuracy or loss statistics for any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

We investigate the problem of weight uncertainty originally proposed by [Blundell et al. (2015). Weight uncertainty in neural networks. In International conference on machine learning, 1613-1622, PMLR.] in the context of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-03 Moein Monemi , Morteza Amini , S. Mahmoud Taheri , Mohammad Arashi

Given that conventional recommenders, while deeply effective, rely on large distributed systems pre-trained on aggregate user data, incorporating new data necessitates large training cycles, making them slow to adapt to real-time user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rafayel Latif , Satwik Behera , Ali Al-Ebrahim

Measuring Efficiency in neural network system development is an open research problem. This paper presents an experimental framework to measure the training efficiency of a neural architecture. To demonstrate our approach, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Eduardo Cueto-Mendoza , John D. Kelleher