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Binary neural networks have attracted tremendous attention due to the efficiency for deploying them on mobile devices. Since the weak expression ability of binary weights and features, their accuracy is usually much lower than that of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Mingzhu Shen , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

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

We propose a novel Bayesian neural network architecture that can learn invariances from data alone by inferring a posterior distribution over different weight-sharing schemes. We show that our model outperforms other non-invariant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-04 Nikolaos Mourdoukoutas , Marco Federici , Georges Pantalos , Mark van der Wilk , Vincent Fortuin

We consider efficiency in the implementation of deep neural networks. Hardware accelerators are gaining interest as machine learning becomes one of the drivers of high-performance computing. In these accelerators, the directed graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 George A. Constantinides

Deep neural networks (DNN) are black box algorithms. They are trained using a gradient descent back propagation technique which trains weights in each layer for the sole goal of minimizing training error. Hence, the resulting weights cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Daniel Goldfarb

Being able to predict the performance of circuits without running expensive simulations is a desired capability that can catalyze automated design. In this paper, we present a supervised pretraining approach to learn circuit representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Marcel Nassar , Mariano Phielipp , Pieter Abbeel , Vladimir Stojanović

We present new algorithms for adaptively learning artificial neural networks. Our algorithms (AdaNet) adaptively learn both the structure of the network and its weights. They are based on a solid theoretical analysis, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Corinna Cortes , Xavi Gonzalvo , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Mehryar Mohri , Scott Yang

Traditionally, deep learning algorithms update the network weights whereas the network architecture is chosen manually, using a process of trial and error. In this work, we propose two novel approaches that automatically update the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ozan İrsoy , Ethem Alpaydın

Recent research has shown that one can train a neural network with binary weights and activations at train time by augmenting the weights with a high-precision continuous latent variable that accumulates small changes from stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Alexander G. Anderson , Cory P. Berg

Training a neural network is synonymous with learning the values of the weights. By contrast, we demonstrate that randomly weighted neural networks contain subnetworks which achieve impressive performance without ever training the weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Vivek Ramanujan , Mitchell Wortsman , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ali Farhadi , Mohammad Rastegari

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an increasingly important role in various computer systems. In order to create these networks, engineers typically specify a desired topology, and then use an automated training algorithm to select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ori Lahav , Guy Katz

In this Letter we supervisedly train neural networks to distinguish different topological phases in the context of topological band insulators. After training with Hamiltonians of one-dimensional insulators with chiral symmetry, the neural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Pengfei Zhang , Huitao Shen , Hui Zhai

Automatic neural architecture design has shown its potential in discovering powerful neural network architectures. Existing methods, no matter based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithms (EA), conduct architecture search in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Renqian Luo , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce a flexible setup allowing for a neural network to learn both its size and topology during the course of a standard gradient-based training. The resulting network has the structure of a graph tailored to the particular learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

The main approach to hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (QNN) is employing quantum computing to build a neural network (NN) that has quantum features, which is then optimized classically. Here, we propose a different strategy: to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Stefan-Alexandru Jura , Mihai Udrescu

Recent results show that deep neural networks achieve excellent performance even when, during training, weights are quantized and projected to a binary representation. Here, we show that this is just the tip of the iceberg: these same…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Paul Merolla , Rathinakumar Appuswamy , John Arthur , Steve K. Esser , Dharmendra Modha

This paper presents an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that can automate diverse topology optimization (TO) problems having different underlying physics. The architecture uses the encoder-decoder networks with dense…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

Inspired by the prevalence of recurrent circuits in biological brains, we investigate the degree to which directionality is a helpful inductive bias for artificial neural networks. Taking directionality as topologically-ordered information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yiding Song

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

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