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Deep learning methods have predominantly been applied to large artificial neural networks. Despite their state-of-the-art performance, these large networks typically do not generalize well to datasets with limited sample sizes. In this…

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In previous studies, we introduced a neural network framework based on symmetric differential equations, along with one of its training methods. In this article, we present another training approach for this neural network. This method…

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It is known that the learning rate is the most important hyper-parameter to tune for training deep neural networks. This paper describes a new method for setting the learning rate, named cyclical learning rates, which practically eliminates…

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Although the neural network (NN) technique plays an important role in machine learning, understanding the mechanism of NN models and the transparency of deep learning still require more basic research. In this study, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew

Building large models with parameter sharing accounts for most of the success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose doubly convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), which significantly improve the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Weining Lu , Zhongfei Zhang

Linear layers in neural networks (NNs) trained by gradient descent can be expressed as a key-value memory system which stores all training datapoints and the initial weights, and produces outputs using unnormalised dot attention over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kazuki Irie , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Adaptive inference is a promising technique to improve the computational efficiency of deep models at test time. In contrast to static models which use the same computation graph for all instances, adaptive networks can dynamically adjust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hao Li , Hong Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Ruigang Yang , Gao Huang

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Recently many first and second order variants of SGD have been proposed to facilitate training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). A common limitation of these works stem from the fact that they use the same learning rate across all instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Shreyas Saxena , Nidhi Vyas , Dennis DeCoste

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the application of deep neural networks (DNNs) for receiver design, which can potentially be applied in complex environments without relying on knowledge of the channel model. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tomer Raviv , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Yonina C. Eldar , Nir Shlezinger

Neural networks are typically trained with a single learning rate across all layers. While recent empirical evidence suggests that assigning layer-specific learning rates can accelerate training, a principled understanding of the conditions…

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Deep neural networks (NNs) encounter scalability limitations when confronted with a vast array of neurons, thereby constraining their achievable network depth. To address this challenge, we propose an integration of tensor networks (TN)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-20 Saeed S. Jahromi , Roman Orus

We develop an approach to efficiently grow neural networks, within which parameterization and optimization strategies are designed by considering their effects on the training dynamics. Unlike existing growing methods, which follow simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Xin Yuan , Pedro Savarese , Michael Maire

Deep convolutional neural network has made huge revolution and shown its superior performance on computer vision tasks such as classification and segmentation. Recent years, researches devote much effort to scaling down size of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yingdong Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

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We draw upon a previously largely untapped literature on human collective intelligence as a source of inspiration for improving deep learning. Implicit in many algorithms that attempt to solve Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) tasks is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Dhaval Adjodah , Dan Calacci , Yan Leng , Peter Krafft , Esteban Moro , Alex Pentland

We introduce a new class of adaptive non-linear autoregressive (Nlar) models incorporating the concept of momentum, which dynamically estimate both the learning rates and momentum as the number of iterations increases. In our method, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ramin Okhrati

Neural networks (NNs) achieve outstanding performance in many domains; however, their decision processes are often opaque and their inference can be computationally expensive in resource-constrained environments. We recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

Neural Networks are function approximators that have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in numerous machine learning tasks. In spite of their great success in terms of accuracy, their large training time makes it difficult to use them for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Aahitagni Mukherjee , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have many advantages over more traditional system identification techniques. They may be applied to linear and nonlinear systems, and they require fewer modeling assumptions. However, these neural network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Kaicheng Niu , Mi Zhou , Chaouki T. Abdallah , Mohammad Hayajneh