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Network embedding has recently attracted lots of attentions in data mining. Existing network embedding methods mainly focus on networks with pairwise relationships. In real world, however, the relationships among data points could go beyond…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Ke Tu , Peng Cui , Xiao Wang , Fei Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Neural Module Network (NMN) exhibits strong interpretability and compositionality thanks to its handcrafted neural modules with explicit multi-hop reasoning capability. However, most NMNs suffer from two critical drawbacks: 1) scalability:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wenhu Chen , Zhe Gan , Linjie Li , Yu Cheng , William Wang , Jingjing Liu

Training a neural network is a monolithic endeavor, akin to carving knowledge into stone: once the process is completed, editing the knowledge in a network is hard, since all information is distributed across the network's weights. We here…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Robert Geirhos , Priyank Jaini , Austin Stone , Sourabh Medapati , Xi Yi , George Toderici , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Recently, it has been shown that many functions on sets can be represented by sum decompositions. These decompositons easily lend themselves to neural approximations, extending the applicability of neural nets to set-valued inputs---Deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-09 Maximilian Soelch , Adnan Akhundov , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Deep predictive models of neuronal activity have recently enabled several new discoveries about the selectivity and invariance of neurons in the visual cortex. These models learn a shared set of nonlinear basis functions, which are linearly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-19 Polina Turishcheva , Max Burg , Fabian H. Sinz , Alexander Ecker

This paper aims to compare different regularization strategies to address a common phenomenon, severe overfitting, in embedding-based neural networks for NLP. We chose two widely studied neural models and tasks as our testbed. We tried…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hao Peng , Lili Mou , Ge Li , Yunchuan Chen , Yangyang Lu , Zhi Jin

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 propose a metric learning framework for the construction of invariant geometric functions of planar curves for the Eucledian and Similarity group of transformations. We leverage on the representational power of convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Gautam Pai , Aaron Wetzler , Ron Kimmel

Word embeddings are commonly obtained as optimizers of a criterion function $f$ of a text corpus, but assessed on word-task performance using a different evaluation function $g$ of the test data. We contend that a possible source of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Rachel Carrington , Karthik Bharath , Simon Preston

Training neural networks means solving a high-dimensional optimization problem. Normally the goal is to minimize a loss function that depends on what is called the network function, or in other words the function that gives the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Umberto Michelucci

Crossover between neural networks is considered disruptive due to the strong functional dependency between connection weights. We propose a modularity-based linkage model at the weight level to preserve functionally dependent communities…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yukai Qiao , Marcus Gallagher

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-07-30 A. Arenas , J. Duch , A. Fernandez , S. Gomez

Concept embeddings offer a practical and efficient mechanism for injecting commonsense knowledge into downstream tasks. Their core purpose is often not to predict the commonsense properties of concepts themselves, but rather to identify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hanane Kteich , Na Li , Usashi Chatterjee , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

A suitable similarity index for comparing learnt neural networks plays an important role in understanding the behaviour of the highly-nonlinear functions, and can provide insights on further theoretical analysis and empirical studies. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Shuai Tang , Wesley J. Maddox , Charlie Dickens , Tom Diethe , Andreas Damianou

Deep neural networks have proved very successful in domains where large training sets are available, but when the number of training samples is small, their performance suffers from overfitting. Prior methods of reducing overfitting such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

We consider learning representations of entities and relations in KBs using the neural-embedding approach. We show that most existing models, including NTN (Socher et al., 2013) and TransE (Bordes et al., 2013b), can be generalized under a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Bishan Yang , Wen-tau Yih , Xiaodong He , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

An embedding is a mapping from a set of nodes of a network into a real vector space. Embeddings can have various aims like capturing the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, or other relevant information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ashkan Dehghan , Kinga Siuta , Agata Skorupka , Andrei Betlen , David Miller , Bogumil Kaminski , Pawel Pralat

This paper is to introduce an asynchronous and local learning framework for neural networks, named Modular Learning Framework (MOLE). This framework modularizes neural networks by layers, defines the training objective via mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianchao Li , Yulong Pei

State-of-the-art learned reconstruction methods often rely on black-box modules that, despite their strong performance, raise questions about their interpretability and robustness. Here, we build on a recently proposed image reconstruction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Joshua Schulz , David Schote , Christoph Kolbitsch , Kostas Papafitsoros , Andreas Kofler

Interpretability is crucial for ensuring RL systems align with human values. However, it remains challenging to achieve in complex decision making domains. Existing methods frequently attempt interpretability at the level of fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Anna Soligo , Pietro Ferraro , David Boyle