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The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Recent works have impressively demonstrated that there exists a subnetwork in randomly initialized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can match the performance of the fully trained dense networks at initialization, without any…

Exploiting the great expressive power of Deep Neural Network architectures, relies on the ability to train them. While current theoretical work provides, mostly, results showing the hardness of this task, empirical evidence usually differs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir , Shaked Shammah

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) augment deep networks with uncertainty quantification by Bayesian treatment of the network weights. However, such models face the challenge of Bayesian inference in a high-dimensional and usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhijie Deng , Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

In this paper we propose a Bayesian method for estimating architectural parameters of neural networks, namely layer size and network depth. We do this by learning concrete distributions over these parameters. Our results show that regular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Georgi Dikov , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Most of the weights in a Lightweight Neural Network have a value of zero, while the remaining ones are either +1 or -1. These universal approximators require approximately 1.1 bits/weight of storage, posses a quick forward pass and achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Altaf H. Khan

We study gradient-based data attribution, aiming to identify which training examples most influence a given output. Existing methods for this task either treat network parameters uniformly or rely on implicit weighting derived from Hessian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shuangqi Li , Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Mathieu Salzmann

Not all learnable parameters (e.g., weights) contribute equally to a neural network's decision function. In fact, entire layers' parameters can sometimes be reset to random values with little to no impact on the model's decisions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Paul Gavrikov , Shashank Agnihotri , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

We scrutinize the structural and operational aspects of deep learning models, particularly focusing on the nuances of learnable parameters (weight) statistics, distribution, node interaction, and visualization. By establishing correlations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

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

The brain prepares for learning even before interacting with the environment, by refining and optimizing its structures through spontaneous neural activity that resembles random noise. However, the mechanism of such a process has yet to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jeonghwan Cheon , Sang Wan Lee , Se-Bum Paik

Training deep neural networks results in strong learned representations that show good generalization capabilities. In most cases, training involves iterative modification of all weights inside the network via back-propagation. In Extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Amir Rosenfeld , John K. Tsotsos

Neural architecture search has attracted wide attentions in both academia and industry. To accelerate it, researchers proposed weight-sharing methods which first train a super-network to reuse computation among different operators, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Qi Tian

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

Neural networks trained with backpropagation, the standard algorithm of deep learning which uses weight transport, are easily fooled by existing gradient-based adversarial attacks. This class of attacks are based on certain small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Mohamed Akrout

Interpreting the learning dynamics of neural networks can provide useful insights into how networks learn and the development of better training and design approaches. We present an approach to interpret learning in neural networks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ayush Manish Agrawal , Atharva Tendle , Harshvardhan Sikka , Sahib Singh

The high computational complexity and increasing parameter counts of deep neural networks pose significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments, such as edge devices or real-time systems. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Laura Erb , Tommaso Boccato , Alexandru Vasilache , Juergen Becker , Nicola Toschi

The success of state-of-the-art machine learning is essentially all based on different variations of gradient descent algorithms that minimize some version of a cost or loss function. A fundamental limitation, however, is the need to train…

Neural networks with random hidden nodes have gained increasing interest from researchers and practical applications. This is due to their unique features such as very fast training and universal approximation property. In these networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Grzegorz Dudek