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An emerging problem in trustworthy machine learning is to train models that produce robust interpretations for their predictions. We take a step towards solving this problem through the lens of axiomatic attribution of neural networks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jiefeng Chen , Xi Wu , Vaibhav Rastogi , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

A convolutional neural network can be constructed using numerical methods for solving dynamical systems, since the forward pass of the network can be regarded as a trajectory of a dynamical system. However, existing models based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mai Zhu , Bo Chang , Chong Fu

Trainable activation functions, whose parameters are optimized alongside network weights, offer increased expressivity compared to fixed activation functions. Specifically, trainable activation functions defined as ratios of polynomials…

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Owing to their inherently interpretable structure, decision trees are commonly used in applications where interpretability is essential. Recent work has focused on improving various aspects of decision trees, including their predictive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-30 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of linear interpolation as a principled method for stabilizing (large-scale) neural network training. We argue that instabilities in the optimization process are often caused by the nonmonotonicity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Thomas Pethick , Wanyun Xie , Volkan Cevher

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

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This paper uses the notion of algorithmic stability to derive novel generalization bounds for several families of transductive regression algorithms, both by using convexity and closed-form solutions. Our analysis helps compare the…

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Biological systems leverage top-down feedback for visual processing, yet most artificial vision models succeed in image classification using purely feedforward or recurrent architectures, calling into question the functional significance of…

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We introduce the concept of a control contraction metric, extending contraction analysis to constructive nonlinear control design. We derive sufficient conditions for exponential stabilizability of all trajectories of a nonlinear control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

The rapid development of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications requires the training of large numbers of models. This growing demand highlights the importance of training models without human supervision, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alexey Boldyrev , Fedor Ratnikov , Andrey Shevelev

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

This work investigates the detection of instabilities that may occur when utilizing deep learning models for image reconstruction tasks. Although neural networks often empirically outperform traditional reconstruction methods, their usage…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Jan Macdonald , Maximilian März , Luis Oala , Wojciech Samek

This paper proposes a novel stable learning theory for recurrent neural networks (RNNs), so-called variational adaptive noise and dropout (VAND). As stabilizing factors for RNNs, noise and dropout on the internal state of RNNs have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taisuke Kobayashi , Shingo Murata

Implicit graph neural networks have gained popularity in recent years as they capture long-range dependencies while improving predictive performance in static graphs. Despite the tussle between performance degradation due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yongjian Zhong , Hieu Vu , Tianbao Yang , Bijaya Adhikari

Data assisted reconstruction algorithms, incorporating trained neural networks, are a novel paradigm for solving inverse problems. One approach is to first apply a classical reconstruction method and then apply a neural network to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Yoeri E. Boink , Markus Haltmeier , Sean Holman , Johannes Schwab

With the growth of model and data sizes, a broad effort has been made to design pruning techniques that reduce the resource demand of deep learning pipelines, while retaining model performance. In order to reduce both inference and training…

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Recent research demonstrate that prediction of time series by predictive recurrent neural networks based on the noisy input generates a smooth anticipated trajectory. We examine influence of the noise component in both the training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Boris Rubinstein

Stability guarantees are crucial when ensuring a fully autonomous robot does not take undesirable or potentially harmful actions. Unfortunately, global stability guarantees are hard to provide in dynamical systems learned from data,…

Predictive models in acute care settings must be able to immediately recognize precipitous changes in a patient's status when presented with data reflecting such changes. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have become common for training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 David Ledbetter , Eugene Laksana , Melissa Aczon , Randall Wetzel