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Deep neural networks are powerful tools for solving nonlinear problems in science and engineering, but training highly accurate models becomes challenging as problem complexity increases. Non-convex optimization and sensitivity to…

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Efficient model selection for identifying a suitable pre-trained neural network to a downstream task is a fundamental yet challenging task in deep learning. Current practice requires expensive computational costs in model training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chunheng Jiang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Yizhou Sun , Jianxi Gao

Despite the success of neural networks (NNs), there is still a concern among many over their "black box" nature. Why do they work? Here we present a simple analytic argument that NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xi Cheng , Bohdan Khomtchouk , Norman Matloff , Pete Mohanty

Deep neural networks have emerged as the workhorse for a large section of robotics and control applications, especially as models for dynamical systems. Such data-driven models are in turn used for designing and verifying autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , James Weimer , Insup Lee

Many deployed learned models are black boxes: given input, returns output. Internal information about the model, such as the architecture, optimisation procedure, or training data, is not disclosed explicitly as it might contain proprietary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Seong Joon Oh , Max Augustin , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

We propose Nester, a method for injecting neural networks into constrained structured predictors. The job of the neural network(s) is to compute an initial, raw prediction that is compatible with the input data but does not necessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Deep neural networks are widely used for classification. These deep models often suffer from a lack of interpretability -- they are particularly difficult to understand because of their non-linear nature. As a result, neural networks are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Oscar Li , Hao Liu , Chaofan Chen , Cynthia Rudin

Nonlinear Parametric Optimization Network (NLPOpt-Net) is an unsupervised learning architecture to solve constrained nonlinear programs (NLP). Given the structure of an NLP, it learns the parametric solution maps with guaranteed constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Bimol Nath Roy , Rahul Golder , MM Faruque Hasan

Part-prototype Networks (ProtoPNets) are concept-based classifiers designed to achieve the same performance as black-box models without compromising transparency. ProtoPNets compute predictions based on similarity to class-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Andrea Bontempelli , Stefano Teso , Katya Tentori , Fausto Giunchiglia , Andrea Passerini

Neural networks have emerged as powerful tools across various applications, yet their decision-making process often remains opaque, leading to them being perceived as "black boxes." This opacity raises concerns about their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Pirzada Suhail , Hao Tang , Amit Sethi

Constrained Optimization solution algorithms are restricted to point based solutions. In practice, single or multiple objectives must be satisfied, wherein both the objective function and constraints can be non-convex resulting in multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Gurpreet Singh , Soumyajit Gupta , Matthew Lease

Compressing neural nets is an active research problem, given the large size of state-of-the-art nets for tasks such as object recognition, and the computational limits imposed by mobile devices. We give a general formulation of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

The conventional, widely used treatment of deep learning models as black boxes provides limited or no insights into the mechanisms that guide neural network decisions. Significant research effort has been dedicated to building interpretable…

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Inspired by the tremendous success of deep Convolutional Neural Networks as generic feature extractors for images, we propose TimeNet: a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) trained on diverse time series in an unsupervised manner using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pankaj Malhotra , Vishnu TV , Lovekesh Vig , Puneet Agarwal , Gautam Shroff

We present a novel approach to modelling and learning vector fields from physical systems using neural networks that explicitly satisfy known linear operator constraints. To achieve this, the target function is modelled as a linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-29 Johannes Hendriks , Carl Jidling , Adrian Wills , Thomas Schön

The contribution of this paper is a framework for training and evaluation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) implemented using constrained neural networks. Recent studies have proposed to use neural networks with differentiable convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Rebecka Winqvist , Arun Venkitaraman , Bo Wahlberg

In many machine learning applications, labeled data is scarce and obtaining more labels is expensive. We introduce a new approach to supervising neural networks by specifying constraints that should hold over the output space, rather than…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Russell Stewart , Stefano Ermon

With the enhancement of Machine Learning, many tools are being designed to assist developers to easily create their Machine Learning models. In this paper, we propose a novel method for auto creation of such custom models for constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Karthik Bhat , Manan Bhandari , ChangSeok Oh , Sujin Kim , Jeeho Yoo

In response to the continuously changing feedstock supply and market demand for products with different specifications, the processes need to be operated at time-varying operating conditions and targets (e.g., setpoints) to improve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Lai Wei , Ryan McCloy , Jie Bao

In this paper, we propose the Deep Structured self-Driving Network (DSDNet), which performs object detection, motion prediction, and motion planning with a single neural network. Towards this goal, we develop a deep structured energy based…

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