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Deep learning utilizing deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved a lot of success recently in many important areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. The lack of convexity for DNNs has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jingcheng Zhou , Wei Wei , Xing Li , Bowen Pang , Zhiming Zheng

In deep learning, dense layer connectivity has become a key design principle in deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling efficient information flow and strong performance across a range of applications. In this work, we model densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jinshu Huang , Haibin Su , Xue-Cheng Tai , Chunlin Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as key enablers of machine learning. Applying larger DNNs to more diverse applications is an important challenge. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Jeremy Kepner , Vijay Gadepally , Hayden Jananthan , Lauren Milechin , Sid Samsi

It is commonly believed that the hidden layers of deep neural networks (DNNs) attempt to extract informative features for learning tasks. In this paper, we formalize this intuition by showing that the features extracted by DNN coincide with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shao-Lun Huang , Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

Even though Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely celebrated for their practical performance, they possess many intriguing properties related to depth that are difficult to explain both theoretically and intuitively. Understanding how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Christopher Snyder , Sriram Vishwanath

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Deep neural networks (DNN) are black box algorithms. They are trained using a gradient descent back propagation technique which trains weights in each layer for the sole goal of minimizing training error. Hence, the resulting weights cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Daniel Goldfarb

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Deep learning has been proven to yield reliably generalizable answers to numerous classification and decision tasks. Here, we demonstrate for the first time, to our knowledge, that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be trained to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ayan Sinha , Justin Lee , Shuai Li , George Barbastathis

Deep neural networks (DNN) have an impressive ability to invert very complex models, i.e. to learn the generative parameters from a model's output. Once trained, the forward pass of a DNN is often much faster than traditional,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Gaetan Rensonnet , Louise Adam , Benoit Macq

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been used to model nonlinear relations between physical quantities. Those DNNs are embedded in physical systems described by partial differential equations (PDE) and trained by minimizing a loss function that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

This paper investigates deep neural network (DNN) compression from the perspective of compactly representing and storing trained parameters. We explore the previously overlooked opportunity of cross-layer architecture-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yuezhou Sun , Wenlong Zhao , Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Hui Guan , Matei Zaharia

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are computationally and memory intensive, which makes their hardware implementation a challenging task especially for resource constrained devices such as IoT nodes. To address this challenge, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Mohammed F. Tolba , Huruy Tekle Tesfai , Hani Saleh , Baker Mohammad , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri

While deep neural networks (DNN) have become an effective computational tool, the prediction results are often criticized by the lack of interpretability, which is essential in many real-world applications such as health informatics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

While both shape and texture are fundamental to visual recognition, research on deep neural networks (DNNs) has predominantly focused on the latter, leaving their geometric understanding poorly probed. Here, we show: first, that optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jian Wang , Yixing Yong , Haixia Bi , Lijun He , Fan Li

This work evaluates six state-of-the-art deep neural network (DNN) architectures applied to the problem of enhancing camera-captured document images. The results from each network were evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Lucas N. Kirsten , Ricardo Piccoli , Ricardo Ribani

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be represented as graphs whose links and vertices iteratively process data and solve tasks sub-optimally. Complex Network Theory (CNT), merging statistical physics with graph theory, provides a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Emanuele La Malfa , Gabriele La Malfa , Giuseppe Nicosia , Vito Latora

We show that training deep neural networks (DNNs) with absolute value activation and arbitrary input dimension can be formulated as equivalent convex Lasso problems with novel features expressed using geometric algebra. This formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Emi Zeger , Mert Pilanci

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in pattern-recognition tasks for which a human comprehensible, quantitative description of the data-generating process, e.g., in the form of equations, cannot be achieved. While doing so, DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Antoine Garcon , Julian Vexler , Dmitry Budker , Stefan Kramer

Why do deep neural networks (DNNs) benefit from very high dimensional parameter spaces? Their huge parameter complexities vs stunning performance in practice is all the more intriguing and not explainable using the standard theory of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ke Sun , Frank Nielsen