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Activation functions play a key role in providing remarkable performance in deep neural networks, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU) is one of the most widely used activation functions. Various new activation functions and improvements on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Yang Liu , Jianpeng Zhang , Chao Gao , Jinghua Qu , Lixin Ji

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ephrath , Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

This research project studies the impact of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in image classification tasks. We explore different architectures and training configurations with the use of ReLUs, Nesterov's accelerated gradient, dropout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Anderson de Andrade

The convolutional neural networks (CNN), including AlexNet, GoogleNet, VGGNet, etc. extract features for many computer vision problems which are very discriminative. The trained CNN model over one dataset performs reasonably well whereas on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shiv Ram Dubey , Soumendu Chakraborty

Efficiently executing convolutional neural nets (CNNs) is important in many machine-learning tasks. Since the cost of moving a word of data, either between levels of a memory hierarchy or between processors over a network, is much higher…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-25 James Demmel , Grace Dinh

The large number of ReLU non-linearity operations in existing deep neural networks makes them ill-suited for latency-efficient private inference (PI). Existing techniques to reduce ReLU operations often involve manual effort and sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Souvik Kundu , Shunlin Lu , Yuke Zhang , Jacqueline Liu , Peter A. Beerel

Despite their prevalence in neural networks we still lack a thorough theoretical characterization of ReLU layers. This paper aims to further our understanding of ReLU layers by studying how the activation function ReLU interacts with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Sören Dittmer , Emily J. King , Peter Maass

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for image recognition and text analysis, and have been suggested for application on one-dimensional data as a way to reduce the need for pre-processing steps. Pre-processing is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ine L. Jernelv , Dag Roar Hjelme , Yuji Matsuura , Astrid Aksnes

Privacy-preserving inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using homomorphic encryption has emerged as a promising approach for enabling secure machine learning in untrusted environments. In our previous work, we introduced a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 John Chiang

Private Inference (PI) uses cryptographic primitives to perform privacy preserving machine learning. In this setting, the owner of the network runs inference on the data of the client without learning anything about the data and without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yonathan Bornfeld , Shai Avidan

Private inference (PI) enables inference directly on cryptographically secure data.While promising to address many privacy issues, it has seen limited use due to extreme runtimes. Unlike plaintext inference, where latency is dominated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen , Chinmay Hegde

Large number of ReLU and MAC operations of Deep neural networks make them ill-suited for latency and compute-efficient private inference. In this paper, we present a model optimization method that allows a model to learn to be shallow. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Souvik Kundu , Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Peter A. Beerel

The work presented in this paper is to propose a reliable high-quality system of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for brain tumor segmentation with a low computation requirement. The system consists of a CNN for the main processing for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Yanming Sun , Chunyan Wang

MLaaS Service Providers (SPs) holding a Neural Network would like to keep the Neural Network weights secret. On the other hand, users wish to utilize the SPs' Neural Network for inference without revealing their data. Multi-Party…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yakir Gorski , Amir Jevnisek , Shai Avidan

In this paper we investigate the performance of different types of rectified activation functions in convolutional neural network: standard rectified linear unit (ReLU), leaky rectified linear unit (Leaky ReLU), parametric rectified linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Bing Xu , Naiyan Wang , Tianqi Chen , Mu Li

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

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved many eye-catching results. However, deploying CNNs on resource-constrained edge devices is constrained by limited memory bandwidth for transmitting large intermediated data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Yu-Shan Tai , Cheng-Yang Chang , Chieh-Fang Teng , AnYeu , Wu

Replacing non-polynomial functions (e.g., non-linear activation functions such as ReLU) in a neural network with their polynomial approximations is a standard practice in privacy-preserving machine learning. The resulting neural network,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chi Zhang , Jingjing Fan , Man Ho Au , Siu Ming Yiu

In the effort to learn from extensive collections of distributed data, federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for preserving privacy by using a gradient-sharing mechanism instead of exchanging raw data. However, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tamer Ahmed Eltaras , Qutaibah Malluhi , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Adnan Qayyum , Junaid Qadir

How can local-search methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoid bad local minima in training multi-layer neural networks? Why can they fit random labels even given non-convex and non-smooth architectures? Most existing theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Zhao Song