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We show that neural networks with access to randomness can outperform deterministic networks by using amplification. We call such networks Coin-Flipping Neural Networks, or CFNNs. We show that a CFNN can approximate the indicator of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuval Sieradzki , Nitzan Hodos , Gal Yehuda , Assaf Schuster

Partitioned neural network functions are used to approximate the solution of partial differential equations. The problem domain is partitioned into non-overlapping subdomains and the partitioned neural network functions are defined on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Deok-Kyu Jang , Kyungsoo Kim , Hyea Hyun Kim

Deep learning based on deep neural networks has been very successful in many practical applications, but it lacks enough theoretical understanding due to the network architectures and structures. In this paper we establish some analysis for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jianfei Li , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Deep learning-based image reconstruction methods have achieved remarkable success in phase recovery and holographic imaging. However, the generalization of their image reconstruction performance to new types of samples never seen by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Hanlong Chen , Luzhe Huang , Tairan Liu , Aydogan Ozcan

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful means to cope with time series. We show how autoregressive linear, i.e., linearly activated recurrent neural networks (LRNNs) can approximate any time-dependent function f(t). The approximation can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Frieder Stolzenburg , Sandra Litz , Olivia Michael , Oliver Obst

Neural networks are powerful function estimators, leading to their status as a paradigm of choice for modeling structured data. However, unlike other structured representations that emphasize the modularity of the problem -- e.g., factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tsvetomila Mihaylova , Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins

Neural fields have emerged as a new paradigm for representing signals, thanks to their ability to do it compactly while being easy to optimize. In most applications, however, neural fields are treated like black boxes, which precludes many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Guandao Yang , Sagie Benaim , Varun Jampani , Kyle Genova , Jonathan T. Barron , Thomas Funkhouser , Bharath Hariharan , Serge Belongie

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to neural learning: the Feature-Imitating-Network (FIN). A FIN is a neural network with weights that are initialized to reliably approximate one or more closed-form statistical features, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sari Saba-Sadiya , Tuka Alhanai , Mohammad M Ghassemi

This paper introduces a tensor neural network (TNN) to address nonparametric regression problems, leveraging its distinct sub-network structure to effectively facilitate variable separation and enhance the approximation of complex,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Yongxin Li , Yifan Wang , Zhongshuo Lin , Hehu Xie

Many scientific and industrial applications require solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to describe the physical phenomena of interest. Some examples can be found in the fields of aerodynamics, astrodynamics, combustion and many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Juan B. Pedro , Juan Maroñas , Roberto Paredes

This paper proposes fractional order graph neural networks (FGNNs), optimized by the approximation strategy to address the challenges of local optimum of classic and fractional graph neural networks which are specialised at aggregating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zijian Liu , Chunbo Luo , Shuai Li , Peng Ren , Geyong Min

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become very popular for prediction in many areas. Their strength is in representation with a high number of parameters that are commonly learned via gradient descent or similar optimization methods. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-11 Anthony Caterini , Dong Eui Chang

The regression of a functional response on a set of scalar predictors can be a challenging task, especially if there is a large number of predictors, or the relationship between those predictors and the response is nonlinear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-24 Sidi Wu , Cédric Beaulac , Jiguo Cao

Fourier methods have a long and proven track record as an excellent tool in data processing. As memory and computational constraints gain importance in embedded and mobile applications, we propose to combine Fourier methods and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Moritz Wolter , Juergen Gall , Angela Yao

Neural operators are a new type of models that can map between function spaces, allowing trained models to emulate the solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper proposes a multigrid Fourier neural operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Zi-Hao Guo , Hou-Biao Li

We propose Alternating Phase-Field Fourier Neural Networks (APF-FNNs) as a unified and physics-based framework for topology optimization. The approach decouples the design problem by representing the state, adjoint, and topology fields with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jing Li , Xindi Hu , Helin Gong , Wei Gong , Shengfeng Zhu

In this paper, we propose FairNN a neural network that performs joint feature representation and classification for fairness-aware learning. Our approach optimizes a multi-objective loss function in which (a) learns a fair representation by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tongxin Hu , Vasileios Iosifidis , Wentong Liao , Hang Zhang , Michael YingYang , Eirini Ntoutsi , Bodo Rosenhahn

We study the training process of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) from the Fourier analysis perspective. We demonstrate a very universal Frequency Principle (F-Principle) -- DNNs often fit target functions from low to high frequencies -- on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang , Tao Luo , Yanyang Xiao , Zheng Ma

The choice of activation function can significantly influence the performance of neural networks. The lack of guiding principles for the selection of activation function is lamentable. We try to address this issue by introducing our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yiwei Li , Enzhi Li

Simulation tools for photoacoustic wave propagation have played a key role in advancing photoacoustic imaging by providing quantitative and qualitative insights into parameters affecting image quality. Classical methods for numerically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Steven Guan , Ko-Tsung Hsu , Parag V. Chitnis