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In the era of Deep Neural Network based solutions for a variety of real-life tasks, having a compact and energy-efficient deployable model has become fairly important. Most of the existing deep architectures use Rectifier Linear Unit (ReLU)…

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Inverse problems in imaging are typically ill-posed and are usually solved by employing regularized optimization techniques. The usage of appropriate constraints can restrict the solution space, thus making it feasible for a reconstruction…

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We extend the Deep Image Prior (DIP) framework to one-dimensional signals. DIP is using a randomly initialized convolutional neural network (CNN) to solve linear inverse problems by optimizing over weights to fit the observed measurements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Sriram Ravula , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Rectified linear units, or ReLUs, have become the preferred activation function for artificial neural networks. In this paper we consider two basic learning problems assuming that the underlying data follow a generative model based on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-13 Arya Mazumdar , Ankit Singh Rawat

Despite their prevalence in neural networks we still lack a thorough theoretical characterization of ReLU layers. This paper aims to further our understanding of ReLU layers by studying how the activation function ReLU interacts with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Sören Dittmer , Emily J. King , Peter Maass

Implicit neural representations (INR) have gained significant popularity for signal and image representation for many end-tasks, such as superresolution, 3D modeling, and more. Most INR architectures rely on sinusoidal positional encoding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Rajhans Singh , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Recent works show that reducing the number of layers in a convolutional neural network can enhance efficiency while maintaining the performance of the network. Existing depth compression methods remove redundant non-linear activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jinuk Kim , Marwa El Halabi , Mingi Ji , Hyun Oh Song

Recent results in nonparametric regression show that deep learning, i.e., neural network estimates with many hidden layers, are able to circumvent the so-called curse of dimensionality in case that suitable restrictions on the structure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-30 Michael Kohler , Sophie Langer

State of the art deep generative networks are capable of producing images with such incredible realism that they can be suspected of memorizing training images. It is why it is not uncommon to include visualizations of training set nearest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ryan Webster , Julien Rabin , Loic Simon , Frederic Jurie

Deep generative models provide a systematic way to learn nonlinear data distributions, through a set of latent variables and a nonlinear "generator" function that maps latent points into the input space. The nonlinearity of the generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Georgios Arvanitidis , Lars Kai Hansen , Søren Hauberg

We consider a deep ReLU / Leaky ReLU student network trained from the output of a fixed teacher network of the same depth, with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The student network is \emph{over-realized}: at each layer $l$, the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yuandong Tian

Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation can replicate insecure patterns from their training data. To mitigate this, a common strategy for security hardening is to fine-tune models using supervision derived from the final…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Li Huang , Zhongxin Liu , Yifan Wu , Tao Yin , Dong Li , Jichao Bi , Nankun Mu , Hongyu Zhang , Meng Yan

We study the robust one-bit compressed sensing problem whose goal is to design an algorithm that faithfully recovers any sparse target vector $\theta_0\in\mathbb{R}^d$ \textit{uniformly} via $m$ quantized noisy measurements. Specifically,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Shuang Qiu , Xiaohan Wei , Zhuoran Yang

We propose an end-to-end approach for solving inverse problems for a class of complex astronomical signals, namely Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). Our goal is to reconstruct such signals from scarce and/or unreliable measurements. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 Agapi Rissaki , Orestis Pavlou , Dimitris Fotakis , Vicky Papadopoulou , Andreas Efstathiou

We investigate the complexity of training a two-layer ReLU neural network with weight decay regularization. Previous research has shown that the optimal solution of this problem can be found by solving a standard cone-constrained convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yifei Wang , Mert Pilanci

We develop fast algorithms and robust software for convex optimization of two-layer neural networks with ReLU activation functions. Our work leverages a convex reformulation of the standard weight-decay penalized training problem as a set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Aaron Mishkin , Arda Sahiner , Mert Pilanci

Recently, the power of unconditional image synthesis has significantly advanced through the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The task of inverting an image into its corresponding latent code of the trained GAN is of utmost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yuval Alaluf , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or

With the advancement of deep learning, reducing computational complexity and memory consumption has become a critical challenge, and ternary neural networks (NNs) that restrict parameters to $\{-1, 0, +1\}$ have attracted attention as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuta Nakahara , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Inverse problems exist in many domains such as phase imaging, image processing, and computer vision. These problems are often solved with application-specific algorithms, even though their nature remains the same: mapping input image(s) to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Feng Wang , Alberto Eljarrat , Johannes Müller , Trond Henninen , Erni Rolf , Christoph Koch

We explore convergence of deep neural networks with the popular ReLU activation function, as the depth of the networks tends to infinity. To this end, we introduce the notion of activation domains and activation matrices of a ReLU network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Yuesheng Xu , Haizhang Zhang