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The performance of deep reinforcement learning agents is fundamentally constrained by their neural network architecture, a choice traditionally made through expensive hyperparameter searches and then fixed throughout training. This work…

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We introduce a unified theoretical framework for the rigorous analysis and systematic construction of deep neural networks (DNNs). This framework addresses a gap in existing theory by explicitly modeling the structure of tensor operations…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained considerable attention in the past decades due to their astounding performance in different applications, such as natural language modeling, self-driving assistance, and source code understanding.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Maxime Cordy , Xiaofei Xie , Wei Ma , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

We study mechanisms to characterize how the asymptotic convergence of backpropagation in deep architectures, in general, is related to the network structure, and how it may be influenced by other design choices including activation type,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Vamsi K Ithapu , Sathya N Ravi , Vikas Singh

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity patterns, e.g., various types of skip connections. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xinyu Gong , Boris Hanin , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we introduce a physics-driven regularization method for training of deep neural networks (DNNs) for use in engineering design and analysis problems. In particular, we focus on prediction of a physical system, for which in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Mohammad Amin Nabian , Hadi Meidani

Deep Neural networks are efficient and flexible models that perform well for a variety of tasks such as image, speech recognition and natural language understanding. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) generate a keen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yesmina Jaafra , Jean Luc Laurent , Aline Deruyver , Mohamed Saber Naceur

Ubiquitous applications of Deep neural networks (DNNs) in different artificial intelligence systems have led to their adoption in solving challenging visualization problems in recent years. While sophisticated DNNs offer an impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Soumya Dutta , Faheem Nizar , Ahmad Amaan , Ayan Acharya

We theoretically discuss why deep neural networks (DNNs) performs better than other models in some cases by investigating statistical properties of DNNs for non-smooth functions. While DNNs have empirically shown higher performance than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Masaaki Imaizumi , Kenji Fukumizu

Despite decades of development, existing IDSs still face challenges in improving detection accuracy, evasion, and detection of unknown attacks. To solve these problems, many researchers have focused on designing and developing IDSs that use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mofe O. Jeje

Deep neural network (DNN) models have demonstrated impressive performance in various domains, yet their application in cognitive neuroscience is limited due to their lack of interpretability. In this study we employ two structurally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Murat Kucukosmanoglu , Javier O. Garcia , Justin Brooks , Kanika Bansal

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful black-box predictors that have achieved impressive performance on a wide variety of tasks. However, their accuracy comes at the cost of intelligibility: it is usually unclear how they make their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Rishabh Agarwal , Levi Melnick , Nicholas Frosst , Xuezhou Zhang , Ben Lengerich , Rich Caruana , Geoffrey Hinton

Optimal decision-making in social settings is often based on forecasts from time series (TS) data. Recently, several approaches using deep neural networks (DNNs) such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been introduced for TS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Philippe Chatigny , Jean-Marc Patenaude , Shengrui Wang

The choice of activation function fundamentally shapes the representational capacity and parameter efficiency of deep neural networks, yet most widely used activations lack rigorous theoretical guarantees on these properties. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ibrahim Albool , Malak Gamal El-Din , Salma Elmalaki , Yasser Shoukry

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in mobile intelligent applications. The inference for the DNNs is usually performed in the cloud. However, it leads to a large overhead of transmitting data via wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Guangli Li , Lei Liu , Xueying Wang , Xiao Dong , Peng Zhao , Xiaobing Feng

Mean field theory has been successfully used to analyze deep neural networks (DNN) in the infinite size limit. Given the finite size of realistic DNN, we utilize the large deviation theory and path integral analysis to study the deviation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-21 Bo Li , David Saad

This paper offers a new perspective on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) architecture. Traditional ANNs commonly use tree-like or DAG structures for simplicity, which can be preset or determined by Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Xinshun Liu , Yizhi Fang , Yichao Jiang

Deep neural networks with short residual connections have demonstrated remarkable success across domains, but increasing depth often introduces computational redundancy without corresponding improvements in representation quality. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Vaggelis Dorovatas , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Alexandros Potamianos

A building self-shading shape impacts substantially on the amount of direct sunlight received by the building and contributes significantly to building operational energy use, in addition to other major contributing variables, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Farnaz Nazari , Wei Yan

Neural architecture search (NAS) has demonstrated amazing success in searching for efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) from a given supernet. In parallel, the lottery ticket hypothesis has shown that DNNs contain small subnetworks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoran You , Baopu Li , Zhanyi Sun , Xu Ouyang , Yingyan Celine Lin