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This thesis addresses the challenge of understanding Neural Networks through the lens of their most fundamental component: the weights, which encapsulate the learned information and determine the model behavior. At the core of this thesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Konstantin Schürholt

Designing machine learning architectures for processing neural networks in their raw weight matrix form is a newly introduced research direction. Unfortunately, the unique symmetry structure of deep weight spaces makes this design very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Idan Achituve , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

Tie strength prediction, sometimes named weight prediction, is vital in exploring the diversity of connectivity pattern emerged in networks. Due to the fundamental significance, it has drawn much attention in the field of network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Zhen Liu , Hu li , Chao Wang

Neural Architecture Search methods are effective but often use complex algorithms to come up with the best architecture. We propose an approach with three basic steps that is conceptually much simpler. First we train N random architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Wei Wen , Hanxiao Liu , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans

The configuration model is one of the most successful models for generating uncorrelated random networks. We analyze its behavior when the expected degree sequence follows a power law with exponent smaller than two. In this situation, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Serrano , M. Boguna

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Deep neural networks with millions of parameters are at the heart of many state of the art machine learning models today. However, recent works have shown that models with much smaller number of parameters can also perform just as well. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Suraj Srinivas , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this paper, orthogonal to the existing data and model studies, we instead resort our efforts to investigate the potential of loss function in a new perspective and present our belief ``Random Weights Networks can Be Acted as Loss Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Man Zhou , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Xiangyu Rui , Chunle Guo , Deyu Meng , Chongyi Li , Jinwei Gu

Neural networks are both computationally intensive and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems. Also, conventional networks fix the architecture before training starts; as a result, training cannot improve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Song Han , Jeff Pool , John Tran , William J. Dally

This paper addresses how a recursive neural network model can automatically leave out useless information and emphasize important evidence, in other words, to perform "weight tuning" for higher-level representation acquisition. We propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jiwei Li

Nowadays an ever-growing concerning phenomenon, the emergence of algorithmic biases that can lead to unfair models, emerges. Several debiasing approaches have been proposed in the realm of deep learning, employing more or less sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Rémi Nahon , Ivan Luiz De Moura Matos , Van-Tam Nguyen , Enzo Tartaglione

We introduce a method to train Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) --- neural networks with extremely low precision (e.g., 1-bit) weights and activations, at run-time. At train-time the quantized weights and activations are used for computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Itay Hubara , Matthieu Courbariaux , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Neural network-based function approximation plays a pivotal role in the advancement of scientific computing and machine learning. Yet, training such models faces several challenges: (i) each target function often requires training a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xinwen Hu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

Low bit-width weights and activations are an effective way of combating the increasing need for both memory and compute power of Deep Neural Networks. In this work, we present a probabilistic training method for Neural Network with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorn W. T. Peters , Max Welling

Weight initialization plays an important role in neural network training. Widely used initialization methods are proposed and evaluated for networks that are trained from scratch. However, the growing number of pretrained models now offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhiqiu Xu , Yanjie Chen , Kirill Vishniakov , Yida Yin , Zhiqiang Shen , Trevor Darrell , Lingjie Liu , Zhuang Liu

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are general-purpose parallel-sequential computers. The program of an RNN is its weight matrix. How to learn useful representations of RNN weights that facilitate RNN analysis as well as downstream tasks?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Vincent Herrmann , Francesco Faccio , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Deep Neural Networks are highly over-parameterized and the size of the neural networks can be reduced significantly after training without any decrease in performance. One can clearly see this phenomenon in a wide range of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Utku Evci

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Modern iterations of deep learning models contain millions (billions) of unique parameters, each represented by a b-bit number. Popular attempts at compressing neural networks (such as pruning and quantisation) have shown that many of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Christopher Subia-Waud , Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Neural networks that process the parameters of other neural networks find applications in domains as diverse as classifying implicit neural representations, generating neural network weights, and predicting generalization errors. However,…