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Convolutional Neural Networks spread through computer vision like a wildfire, impacting almost all visual tasks imaginable. Despite this, few researchers dare to train their models from scratch. Most work builds on one of a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Philipp Krähenbühl , Carl Doersch , Jeff Donahue , Trevor Darrell

Employing equivariance in neural networks leads to greater parameter efficiency and improved generalization performance through the encoding of domain knowledge in the architecture; however, the majority of existing approaches require an a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Emmanouil Theodosis , Karim Helwani , Demba Ba

The monotonic dependence of the outputs of a neural network on some of its inputs is a crucial inductive bias in many scenarios where domain knowledge dictates such behavior. This is especially important for interpretability and fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Michael Williams

In which we propose neural network architecture (dune neural network) for recognizing general noisy image without adding any artificial noise in the training data. By representing each free parameter of the network as an uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei

Weight sharing promises to make neural architecture search (NAS) tractable even on commodity hardware. Existing methods in this space rely on a diverse set of heuristics to design and train the shared-weight backbone network, a.k.a. the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Kaicheng Yu , Rene Ranftl , Mathieu Salzmann

Neural architecture search has become an indispensable part of the deep learning field. Modern methods allow to find one of the best performing architectures, or to build one from scratch, but they typically make decisions based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Ekaterina Gracheva

This paper presents a minimalist neural regression network as an aggregate of independent identical regression blocks that are trained simultaneously. Moreover, it introduces a new multiplicative parameter, shared by all the neural units of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Soheil Keshmiri

In this work, we investigate the fundamental trade-off regarding accuracy and parameter efficiency in the parameterization of neural network weights using predictor networks. We present a surprising finding that, when recovering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hongjun Choi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Ruben Glatt , Shusen Liu

Deeper and wider CNNs are known to provide improved performance for deep learning tasks. However, most such networks have poor performance gain per parameter increase. In this paper, we investigate whether the gain observed in deeper models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Arnav Chavan , Udbhav Bamba , Rishabh Tiwari , Deepak Gupta

Neural networks efficiently encode learned information within their parameters. Consequently, many tasks can be unified by treating neural networks themselves as input data. When doing so, recent studies demonstrated the importance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Derek Lim , Haggai Maron , Marc T. Law , Jonathan Lorraine , James Lucas

Despite their great success, neural networks still remain as black-boxes due to the lack of interpretability. Here we propose a new analyzing method, namely the weight pathway analysis (WPA), to make them transparent. We consider weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sihan Feng , Yong Zhang , Fuming Wang , Hong Zhao

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are notoriously difficult to train. When the eigenvalues of the hidden to hidden weight matrix deviate from absolute value 1, optimization becomes difficult due to the well studied issue of vanishing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Martin Arjovsky , Amar Shah , Yoshua Bengio

We propose a novel method for analyzing and visualizing the complexity of standard reinforcement learning (RL) benchmarks based on score distributions. A large number of policy networks are generated by randomly guessing their parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Declan Oller , Tobias Glasmachers , Giuseppe Cuccu

The training process of neural networks usually optimize weights and bias parameters of linear transformations, while nonlinear activation functions are pre-specified and fixed. This work develops a systematic approach to constructing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhengqi Liu , Shuhao Cao , Yuwen Li , Ludmil Zikatanov

This paper presents an empirical study on the weights of neural networks, where we interpret each model as a point in a high-dimensional space -- the neural weight space. To explore the complex structure of this space, we sample from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Gabriel Eilertsen , Daniel Jönsson , Timo Ropinski , Jonas Unger , Anders Ynnerman

Training a high-quality deep neural network requires choosing suitable hyperparameters, which is a non-trivial and expensive process. Current works try to automatically optimize or design principles of hyperparameters, such that they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Wuyang Chen , Junru Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Boris Hanin

This paper explores learned-context neural networks. It is a multi-task learning architecture based on a fully shared neural network and an augmented input vector containing trainable task parameters. The architecture is interesting due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anders T. Sandnes , Bjarne Grimstad , Odd Kolbjørnsen

Linear Regression and neural networks are widely used to model data. Neural networks distinguish themselves from linear regression with their use of activation functions that enable modeling nonlinear functions. The standard argument for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Anish Lakkapragada

In this paper we consider the possibility of computing rather than training the decision layer weights of a neural classifier. Such a possibility arises in two way, from making an appropriate choice of loss function and by solving a problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Eugene Wong

Training neural networks requires significant computational resources and energy. Methods like mixed-precision and quantization-aware training reduce bit usage, yet they still depend heavily on computationally expensive gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Noa Cohen , Omkar Joglekar , Dotan Di Castro , Vladimir Tchuiev , Shir Kozlovsky , Michal Moshkovitz