English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient Neural Network Implementation with Quadr…

200 papers

Recently, deep learning has been widely applied in functional data analysis (FDA) with notable empirical success. However, the infinite dimensionality of functional data necessitates an effective dimension reduction approach for functional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Zhongjie Shi , Jun Fan , Linhao Song , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Johan A. K. Suykens

In the current research of neural networks, the activation function is manually specified by human and not able to change themselves during training. This paper focus on how to make the activation function trainable for deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Zhaohe Liao

Neural networks in the real domain have been studied for a long time and achieved promising results in many vision tasks for recent years. However, the extensions of the neural network models in other number fields and their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xuanyu Zhu , Yi Xu , Hongteng Xu , Changjian Chen

In this paper the Mechanical Neural Network(MNN) is introduced, a physical implementation of a multilayer perceptron(MLP) with ReLU activation functions, two input neurons, four hidden neurons and two output neurons. This physical model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Axel Schaffland

Recently, much attention has been devoted to finding highly efficient and powerful activation functions for CNN layers. Because activation functions inject different nonlinearities between layers that affect performance, varying them is one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Loris Nanni , Gianluca Maguolo , Sheryl Brahnam , Michelangelo Paci

Complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) have been shown to be powerful nonlinear approximators when the input data can be properly modeled in the complex domain. One of the major challenges in scaling up CVNNs in practice is the design of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Simone Scardapane , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Danilo Comminiello , Aurelio Uncini

The Regularized Nonlinear Acceleration (RNA) algorithm is an acceleration method capable of improving the rate of convergence of many optimization schemes such as gradient descend, SAGA or SVRG. Until now, its analysis is limited to convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Damien Scieur , Edouard Oyallon , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach

The effectiveness of deep neural architectures has been widely supported in terms of both experimental and foundational principles. There is also clear evidence that the activation function (e.g. the rectifier and the LSTM units) plays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Giuseppe Marra , Dario Zanca , Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori

Activation functions are non-linearities in neural networks that allow them to learn complex mapping between inputs and outputs. Typical choices for activation functions are ReLU, Tanh, Sigmoid etc., where the choice generally depends on…

The success of Neural networks in providing miraculous results when applied to a wide variety of tasks is astonishing. Insight in the working can be obtained by studying the universal approximation property of neural networks. It is proved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 R Subhash Chandra Bose , Kakarla Yaswanth

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) play a major role in image processing tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation. Very often CNN networks have from several to hundred stacked layers with several megabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Marcin Pietron , Maciej Wielgosz

Neural networks have shown tremendous potential for reconstructing high-resolution images in inverse problems. The non-convex and opaque nature of neural networks, however, hinders their utility in sensitive applications such as medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Arda Sahiner , Morteza Mardani , Batu Ozturkler , Mert Pilanci , John Pauly

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to many computer vision tasks, such as image classification. By performing linear combinations and element-wise nonlinear operations, these networks can be thought of as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Kaicheng Yu , Mathieu Salzmann

In machine learning, the use of an artificial neural network is the mainstream approach. Such a network consists of layers of neurons. These neurons are of the same type characterized by the two features: (1) an inner product of an input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Fenglei Fan , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Motivated by the growing theoretical understanding of neural networks that employ the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) as their activation function, we revisit the use of ReLU activation functions for learning implicit neural representations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Joseph Shenouda , Yamin Zhou , Robert D. Nowak

Deep learning has exhibited remarkable results across diverse areas. To understand its success, substantial research has been directed towards its theoretical foundations. Nevertheless, the majority of these studies examine how well deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Hao Liu , Jiahui Cheng , Wenjing Liao

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successfully employed to tackle several remote sensing tasks such as image classification and show better performance than previous techniques. For the radar imaging community, a natural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-03 Jingkun Gao , Bin Deng , Yuliang Qin , Hongqiang Wang , Xiang Li

Neural networks with ReLU activation function have been shown to be universal function approximators and learn function mapping as non-smooth functions. Recently, there is considerable interest in the use of neural networks in applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Parameswaran Sankaranarayanan , Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Recently, neural networks have been widely applied in the power system area. They can be used for better predicting input information and modeling system performance with increased accuracy. In some applications such as battery degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Cunzhi Zhao , Fan Jiang , Xingpeng Li

The promising performance increase offered by quantum computing has led to the idea of applying it to neural networks. Studies in this regard can be divided into two main categories: simulating quantum neural networks with the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Ufuk Korkmaz , Deniz Türkpençe