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Sparse Neural Networks regained attention due to their potential for mathematical and computational advantages. We give motivation to study Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) from a network science perspective, provide a technique to embed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Julian Stier , Michael Granitzer

Deep neural networks achieve impressive performance but remain difficult to interpret and control. We present SALVE (Sparse Autoencoder-Latent Vector Editing), a unified "discover, validate, and control" framework that bridges mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vegard Flovik

Deep learning has excelled in medical image classification, but its clinical application is limited by poor interpretability. Capsule networks, known for encoding hierarchical relationships and spatial features, show potential in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jun Xu

This paper proposes a task-agnostic discovery layer for multivariate time series that constructs a relational hypothesis graph over entities without assuming linearity, stationarity, or a downstream objective. The method learns window-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Olusegun Owoeye

Many imaging science tasks can be modeled as a discrete linear inverse problem. Solving linear inverse problems is often challenging, with ill-conditioned operators and potentially non-unique solutions. Embedding prior knowledge, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Elizabeth Newman , Jack Michael Solomon , Matthias Chung

This paper aims to build an estimate of an unknown density of the data with measurement error as a linear combination of functions from a dictionary. Inspired by the penalization approach, we propose the weighted Elastic-net penalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Xiaowei Yang , Huiming Zhang , Haoyu Wei , Shouzheng Zhang

Signed Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) have recently gained attention as an effective tool for several learning tasks on signed networks, i.e., graphs where edges have an associated polarity. One of these tasks is to predict the polarity of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Marco Minici , Federico Cinus , Francesco Bonchi , Giuseppe Manco

Sparse coding of images is traditionally done by cutting them into small patches and representing each patch individually over some dictionary given a pre-determined number of nonzero coefficients to use for each patch. In lack of a way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Reza Borhani , Jeremy Watt , Aggelos Katsaggelos

Understanding neural networks is challenging in part because of the dense, continuous nature of their hidden states. We explore whether we can train neural networks to have hidden states that are sparse, discrete, and more interpretable by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Alex Tamkin , Mohammad Taufeeque , Noah D. Goodman

It is known that sparsity can improve interpretability for deep neural networks. However, existing methods in the area either require networks that are pre-trained with sparsity constraints, or impose sparsity after the fact, altering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have been long considered an ideal, yet unscalable solution for improving the robustness and the predictive uncertainty of deep neural networks. While they could capture more accurately the posterior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Gianni Franchi , Andrei Bursuc , Emanuel Aldea , Severine Dubuisson , Isabelle Bloch

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) require millions of labeled training examples for image classification and object detection tasks, which restrict these models to domains where such datasets are available. In this paper, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Sheng Y. Lundquist , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

In this work, we propose an adaptive sparse learning algorithm that can be applied to learn the physical processes and obtain a sparse representation of the solution given a large snapshot space. Assume that there is a rich class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yating Wang , Wing Tat Leung , Guang Lin

The high-dimensional features extracted from large-scale unlabeled data via various pretrained models with diverse architectures are referred to as heterogeneous multiview data. Most existing unsupervised transfer learning methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jie Chen , Yuanbiao Gou , Chuanbin Liu , Zhu Wang , Xi Peng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) lack the hierarchical inductive biases inherent to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), theoretically allowing them to maintain high-dimensional representations throughout all layers. However, recent observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kanishk Awadhiya

High-dimensional streaming data are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in many fields. They often lie in multiple low-dimensional subspaces, and the manifold structures may change abruptly on the time scale due to pattern shift or occurrence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-13 Ruiyu Xu , Jianguo Wu , Xiaowei Yue , Yongxiang Li

High-energy large-scale particle colliders generate data at extraordinary rates. Developing real-time high-throughput data compression algorithms to reduce data volume and meet the bandwidth requirement for storage has become increasingly…

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

Training a deep neural network requires a large amount of single-task data and involves a long time-consuming optimization phase. This is not scalable to complex, realistic environments with new unexpected changes. Humans can perform fast…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai

The information bottleneck framework provides a systematic approach to learning representations that compress nuisance information in the input and extract semantically meaningful information about predictions. However, the choice of a…