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A growing body of research in continual learning focuses on the catastrophic forgetting problem. While many attempts have been made to alleviate this problem, the majority of the methods assume a single model in the continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Thang Doan , Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar

Ensemble methods can deliver surprising performance gains but also bring significantly higher computational costs, e.g., can be up to 2048X in large-scale ensemble tasks. However, we found that the majority of computations in ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ziyue Li , Kan Ren , Yifan Yang , Xinyang Jiang , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li

In resource-constrained and low-latency settings, uncertainty estimates must be efficiently obtained. Deep Ensembles provide robust epistemic uncertainty (EU) but require training multiple full-size models. BatchEnsemble aims to deliver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Anton Zamyatin , Patrick Indri , Sagar Malhotra , Thomas Gärtner

Ensembles of neural networks are known to be much more robust and accurate than individual networks. However, training multiple deep networks for model averaging is computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a method to obtain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Gao Huang , Yixuan Li , Geoff Pleiss , Zhuang Liu , John E. Hopcroft , Kilian Q. Weinberger

In this paper, we propose a novel ensembling technique for deep neural networks, which is able to drastically reduce the required memory compared to alternative approaches. In particular, we propose to extract multiple sub-networks from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Ensembles over neural network weights trained from different random initialization, known as deep ensembles, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and calibration. The recently introduced batch ensembles provide a drop-in replacement that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Florian Wenzel , Jasper Snoek , Dustin Tran , Rodolphe Jenatton

Improving model performance is always the key problem in machine learning including deep learning. However, stand-alone neural networks always suffer from marginal effect when stacking more layers. At the same time, ensemble is an useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yuan Gao , Zixiang Cai , Lei Yu

Training multiple deep neural networks (DNNs) and averaging their outputs is a simple way to improve the predictive performance. Nevertheless, the multiplied training cost prevents this ensemble method to be practical and efficient. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Feng Wang , Guoyizhe Wei , Qiao Liu , Jinxiang Ou , Xian Wei , Hairong Lv

Ensemble of predictions is known to perform better than individual predictions taken separately. However, for tasks that require heavy computational resources, e.g. semantic segmentation, creating an ensemble of learners that needs to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Walid Bousselham , Guillaume Thibault , Lucas Pagano , Archana Machireddy , Joe Gray , Young Hwan Chang , Xubo Song

Ensemble learning is a process by which multiple base learners are strategically generated and combined into one composite learner. There are two features that are essential to an ensemble's performance, the individual accuracies of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Wenjing Li , Randy C. Paffenroth , David Berthiaume

Ensembling a neural network is a widely recognized approach to enhance model performance, estimate uncertainty, and improve robustness in deep supervised learning. However, deep ensembles often come with high computational costs and memory…

Neural network ensembles is a simple yet effective approach for enhancing generalization capabilities. The most common method involves independently training multiple neural networks initialized with different weights and then averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shunsuke Sakai , Shunsuke Tsuge , Tatsuhito Hasegawa

Often, machine learning applications have to cope with dynamic environments where data are collected in the form of continuous data streams with potentially infinite length and transient behavior. Compared to traditional (batch) data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Guilherme Cassales , Heitor Gomes , Albert Bifet , Bernhard Pfahringer , Hermes Senger

Given the continuous increase in dataset sizes and the complexity of forecasting models, the trade-off between forecast accuracy and computational cost is emerging as an extremely relevant topic, especially in the context of ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Marco Zanotti

Recent advancements in low-cost ensemble learning have demonstrated improved efficiency for image classification. However, the existing low-cost ensemble methods show relatively lower accuracy compared to conventional ensemble learning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hojung Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Ensemble learning is a meta-learning approach that combines the predictions of multiple learners, demonstrating improved accuracy and robustness. Nevertheless, ensembling models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) result in high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Le Zhang , Onat Gungor , Flavio Ponzina , Tajana Rosing

Model ensemble is an effective strategy in continual learning, which alleviates catastrophic forgetting by interpolating model parameters, achieving knowledge fusion learned from different tasks. However, existing model ensemble methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yuchuan Mao , Zhi Gao , Xiaomeng Fan , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Chenchen Jing

The ensemble of deep neural networks has been shown, both theoretically and empirically, to improve generalization accuracy on the unseen test set. However, the high training cost hinders its efficiency since we need a sufficient number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wentao Zhang , Jiawei Jiang , Yingxia Shao , Bin Cui

Neural network ensembles have been effectively used to improve generalization by combining the predictions of multiple independently trained models. However, the growing scale and complexity of deep neural networks have led to these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tim Whitaker

Ensemble Learning is an effective method for improving generalization in machine learning. However, as state-of-the-art neural networks grow larger, the computational cost associated with training several independent networks becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley
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