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Recently, deep feedforward neural networks have achieved considerable success in modeling biological sensory processing, in terms of reproducing the input-output map of sensory neurons. However, such models raise profound questions about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-16 Hidenori Tanaka , Aran Nayebi , Niru Maheswaranathan , Lane McIntosh , Stephen A. Baccus , Surya Ganguli

Networks are ubiquitous structure that describes complex relationships between different entities in the real world. As a critical component of prediction task over nodes in networks, learning the feature representation of nodes has become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Hansheng Xue , Jiajie Peng , Xuequn Shang

We propose to optimize the activation functions of a deep neural network by adding a corresponding functional regularization to the cost function. We justify the use of a second-order total-variation criterion. This allows us to derive a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-04 Michael Unser

Deep feedforward neural networks with piecewise linear activations are currently producing the state-of-the-art results in several public datasets. The combination of deep learning models and piecewise linear activation functions allows for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Zhibin Liao , Gustavo Carneiro

The deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the state-of-the-art solution for large-scale visual recognition. Following basic principles such as increasing the depth and constructing highway connections, researchers have manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Lingxi Xie , Alan Yuille

One practice of employing deep neural networks is to apply the same architecture to all the input instances. However, a fixed architecture may not be representative enough for data with high diversity. To promote the model capacity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Dapeng Chen , Aojun Zhou , Junjie Yan

Neurons are the fundamental building blocks of deep neural networks, and their interconnections allow AI to achieve unprecedented results. Motivated by the goal of understanding how neurons encode information, compositional explanations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Biagio La Rosa , Leilani H. Gilpin

We propose a new framework for image classification with deep neural networks. The framework introduces intermediate outputs to the computational graph of a network. This enables flexible control of the computational load and balances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yue Bai , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya , Antti P. Happonen , Heikki Huttunen

We introduce a new class of deep neural networks (DNNs) with multilayered tree-like architectures. The architectures are codified using numbers from the ring of integers of non-Archimdean local fields. These rings have a natural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

Modern deep networks are highly complex and their inferential outcome very hard to interpret. This is a serious obstacle to their transparent deployment in safety-critical or bias-aware applications. This work contributes to post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Sotirios Chatzis

Tree-structured neural networks encode a particular tree geometry for a sentence in the network design. However, these models have at best only slightly outperformed simpler sequence-based models. We hypothesize that neural sequence models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Samuel R. Bowman , Christopher D. Manning , Christopher Potts

Deep neural networks come in many sizes and architectures. The choice of architecture, in conjunction with the dataset and learning algorithm, is commonly understood to affect the learned neural representations. Yet, recent results have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Loek van Rossem , Andrew M. Saxe

A neural network is locally specialized to the extent that parts of its computational graph (i.e. structure) can be abstractly represented as performing some comprehensible sub-task relevant to the overall task (i.e. functionality). Are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Shlomi Hod , Daniel Filan , Stephen Casper , Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

Deep neural networks is a branch in machine learning that has seen a meteoric rise in popularity due to its powerful abilities to represent and model high-level abstractions in highly complex data. One area in deep neural networks that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Parthipan Siva , Alexander Wong

Inspired by a growing interest in analyzing network data, we study the problem of node classification on graphs, focusing on approaches based on kernel machines. Conventionally, kernel machines are linear classifiers in the implicit feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-01-25 Xiao Tang , Mu Zhu

One major challenge of neuroscience is finding interesting structures in a seemingly disorganized neural activity. Often these structures have computational implications that help to understand the functional role of a particular brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-01 Srdjan Ostojic , Stefano Fusi

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a standard architecture for many machine learning tasks, their internal decision-making process and general interpretability is still poorly understood. Conversely, common decision trees are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Coenraad Mouton , Marelie H. Davel

A number of machine learning models have been proposed with the goal of achieving systematic generalization: the ability to reason about new situations by combining aspects of previous experiences. These models leverage compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Benjamin Rosman , Andrew M. Saxe

We study the problem of explaining a rich class of behavioral properties of deep neural networks. Distinctively, our influence-directed explanations approach this problem by peering inside the network to identify neurons with high influence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Klas Leino , Shayak Sen , Anupam Datta , Matt Fredrikson , Linyi Li

Advancements in artificial intelligence call for a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms underlying deep learning. In this work, we propose a theoretical framework to analyze learning dynamics through the lens of dynamical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yuchen Lin , Yong Zhang , Sihan Feng , Hong Zhao