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Multilingual spoken language understanding (SLU) consists of two sub-tasks, namely intent detection and slot filling. To improve the performance of these two sub-tasks, we propose to use consistency regularization based on a hybrid data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Bo Zheng , Zhouyang Li , Fuxuan Wei , Qiguang Chen , Libo Qin , Wanxiang Che

An artificial neuron is modelled as a weighted summation followed by an activation function which determines its output. A wide variety of activation functions such as rectified linear units (ReLU), leaky-ReLU, Swish, MISH, etc. have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas , Amina Asif

We investigate the function-space optimality (specifically, the Banach-space optimality) of a large class of shallow neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities/activation functions. To that end, we construct a new family of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-13 Rahul Parhi , Michael Unser

Deep learning training training algorithms are a huge success in recent years in many fields including speech, text,image video etc. Deeper and deeper layers are proposed with huge success with resnet structures having around 152 layers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chinmay Rane , Kanishka Tyagi , Michael Manry

Classification of biological images is an important task with crucial application in many fields, such as cell phenotypes recognition, detection of cell organelles and histopathological classification, and it might help in early medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Loris Nanni , Alessandra Lumini , Stefano Ghidoni , Gianluca Maguolo

In this paper it is shown that $C_\beta$-smooth functions can be approximated by deep neural networks with ReLU activation function and with parameters $\{0,\pm \frac{1}{2}, \pm 1, 2\}$. The $l_0$ and $l_1$ parameter norms of considered…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-26 Aleksandr Beknazaryan

The ubiquity of deep learning algorithms in various applications has amplified the need for assuring their robustness against small input perturbations such as those occurring in adversarial attacks. Existing complete verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Matthias König , Xiyue Zhang , Holger H. Hoos , Marta Kwiatkowska , Jan N. van Rijn

Deep neural networks yield the state-of-the-art results in many computer vision and human machine interface applications such as object detection, speech recognition etc. Since, these networks are computationally expensive, customized…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Mahesh Chandra

In this paper we investigate the performance of different types of rectified activation functions in convolutional neural network: standard rectified linear unit (ReLU), leaky rectified linear unit (Leaky ReLU), parametric rectified linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Bing Xu , Naiyan Wang , Tianqi Chen , Mu Li

Activation functions play a key role in neural networks so it becomes fundamental to understand their advantages and disadvantages in order to achieve better performances. This paper will first introduce common types of non linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Dabal Pedamonti

We propose the Hyperbolic Tangent Exponential Linear Unit (TeLU), a neural network hidden activation function defined as TeLU(x)=xtanh(exp(x)). TeLU's design is grounded in the core principles of key activation functions, achieving strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Alfredo Fernandez , Ankur Mali

We discuss the expressive power of neural networks which use the non-smooth ReLU activation function $\varrho(x) = \max\{0,x\}$ by analyzing the approximation theoretic properties of such networks. The existing results mainly fall into two…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Felix Voigtlaender , Philipp Petersen

Activation functions in neural networks are typically selected from a set of empirically validated, commonly used static functions such as ReLU, tanh, or sigmoid. However, by optimizing the shapes of a network's activation functions, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 William H Patty

Photonic neural networks have demonstrated their potential over the past decades, but have not yet reached the full extent of their capabilities. One reason for this lies in an essential component - the nonlinear activation function, which…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-26 Grigorii Slinkov , Steven Becker , Dirk Englund , Birgit Stiller

This paper studies the data-driven reconstruction of firing rate dynamics of brain activity described by linear-threshold network models. Identifying the system parameters directly leads to a large number of variables and a highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Xuan Wang , Jorge Cortes

Deep Neural Networks have been shown to be beneficial for a variety of tasks, in particular allowing for end-to-end learning and reducing the requirement for manual design decisions. However, still many parameters have to be chosen in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Mina Basirat , Peter M. Roth

The un-rectifying technique expresses a non-linear point-wise activation function as a data-dependent variable, which means that the activation variable along with its input and output can all be employed in optimization. The ReLU network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wen-Liang Hwang , Shih-Shuo Tung

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) offer a promising approach to simulating physical systems. Still, their application is limited by optimization challenges, mainly due to the lack of activation functions that generalize well across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sourav Mishra , Shreya Hallikeri , Suresh Sundaram

Recent work has shown that the activation function of the convolutional neural network can meet the Lipschitz condition, then the corresponding convolutional neural network structure can be constructed according to the scale of the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiangri Lu , Hongbin Ma , Jingcheng Zhang

The design of a neural network is usually carried out by defining the number of layers, the number of neurons per layer, their connections or synapses, and the activation function that they will execute. The training process tries to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Juan Heredia-Juesas , José Á. Martínez-Lorenzo