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Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

Pre-training on graph neural networks (GNNs) aims to learn transferable knowledge for downstream tasks with unlabeled data, and it has recently become an active research area. The success of graph pre-training models is often attributed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jiarong Xu , Renhong Huang , Xin Jiang , Yuxuan Cao , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Network pruning is an important research field aiming at reducing computational costs of neural networks. Conventional approaches follow a fixed paradigm which first trains a large and redundant network, and then determines which units…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Jun Zhou , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Rui-Yang Ju , Jen-Shiun Chiang , Chih-Chia Chen , Yu-Shian Lin

We present an integrated framework for using Convolutional Networks for classification, localization and detection. We show how a multiscale and sliding window approach can be efficiently implemented within a ConvNet. We also introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Pierre Sermanet , David Eigen , Xiang Zhang , Michael Mathieu , Rob Fergus , Yann LeCun

One of the most promising ways of improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks is by increasing the number of convolutional layers. However, adding layers makes training more difficult and computationally expensive. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Liwei Wang , Chen-Yu Lee , Zhuowen Tu , Svetlana Lazebnik

Stochastic microstructure reconstruction has become an indispensable part of computational materials science, but ongoing developments are specific to particular material systems. In this paper, we address this generality problem by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Xiaolin Li , Yichi Zhang , He Zhao , Craig Burkhart , L Catherine Brinson , Wei Chen

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jörg K. H. Franke , Urs Spiegelhalter , Marianna Nezhurina , Jenia Jitsev , Frank Hutter , Michael Hefenbrock

Modern deep neural networks are highly over-parameterized compared to the data on which they are trained, yet they often generalize remarkably well. A flurry of recent work has asked: why do deep networks not overfit to their training data?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Minyoung Huh , Hossein Mobahi , Richard Zhang , Brian Cheung , Pulkit Agrawal , Phillip Isola

We present a novel regularization approach to train neural networks that enjoys better generalization and test error than standard stochastic gradient descent. Our approach is based on the principles of cross-validation, where a validation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro

That shared features between train and test data are required for generalisation in artificial neural networks has been a common assumption of both proponents and critics of these models. Here, we show that convolutional architectures avoid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jeff Mitchell , Jeffrey S. Bowers

Recent studies revealed that convolutional neural networks do not generalize well to small image transformations, e.g. rotations by a few degrees or translations of a few pixels. To improve the robustness to such transformations, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Adrian Sandru , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

There is an increasing number of pre-trained deep neural network models. However, it is still unclear how to effectively use these models for a new task. Transfer learning, which aims to transfer knowledge from source tasks to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yunhui Guo , Yandong Li , Liqiang Wang , Tajana Rosing

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

Weight pruning is a common technique for compressing large neural networks. We focus on the challenging post-training one-shot setting, where a pre-trained model is compressed without any retraining. Existing one-shot pruning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gabriel Afriat , Xiang Meng , Shibal Ibrahim , Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

Convolutional neural networks require numerous data for training. Considering the difficulties in data collection and labeling in some specific tasks, existing approaches generally use models pre-trained on a large source domain (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Zhichen Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Yuning Jiang , Li Xu , Lei Li , Wei-Ying Ma

In this paper, we study the generalization properties of neural networks under input perturbations and show that minimal training data corruption by a few pixel modifications can cause drastic overfitting. We propose an evolutionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Subhajit Chaudhury , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Deep neural networks are widely used prediction algorithms whose performance often improves as the number of weights increases, leading to over-parametrization. We consider a two-layered neural network whose first layer is frozen while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Roman Worschech , Bernd Rosenow

Image augmentation techniques apply transformation functions such as rotation, shearing, or color distortion on an input image. These augmentations were proven useful in improving neural networks' generalization ability. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Moab Arar , Ariel Shamir , Amit Bermano