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Batch normalization (BN) is a key facilitator and considered essential for state-of-the-art binary neural networks (BNN). However, the BN layer is costly to calculate and is typically implemented with non-binary parameters, leaving a hurdle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xu Ouyang , Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhangyang Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel in computer vision tasks, especially, few-shot learning (FSL), which is increasingly important for generalizing from limited examples. However, DNNs are computationally expensive with scalability issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Qi Xu , Junyang Zhu , Dongdong Zhou , Hao Chen , Yang Liu , Jiangrong Shen , Qiang Zhang

This paper addresses how a recursive neural network model can automatically leave out useless information and emphasize important evidence, in other words, to perform "weight tuning" for higher-level representation acquisition. We propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jiwei Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which mimic biological neural system to convey information via discrete spikes, are well known as brain-inspired models with excellent computing efficiency. By utilizing the surrogate gradient estimation for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Zekai Xu , Kang You , Qinghai Guo , Xiang Wang , Zhezhi He

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit superior performance in various machine learning tasks, e.g., image classification, speech recognition, biometric recognition, object detection, etc. However, it is essential to analyze their sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Renu Sharma , Redwan Sony , Arun Ross

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have closer dynamics to the brain than current deep neural networks. Their low power consumption and sample efficiency make these networks interesting. Recently, several deep convolutional spiking neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

This work proposes deep network models and learning algorithms for unsupervised and supervised binary hashing. Our novel network design constrains one hidden layer to directly output the binary codes. This addresses a challenging issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung

We scrutinize the structural and operational aspects of deep learning models, particularly focusing on the nuances of learnable parameters (weight) statistics, distribution, node interaction, and visualization. By establishing correlations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering biological plausibility and energy efficiency. Despite these merits, SNNs are frequently hampered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Wenke Huang , Qiang Zhang , Tingting Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Liangpei Zhang

Compared to the general semantic segmentation problem, portrait segmentation has higher precision requirement on boundary area. However, this problem has not been well studied in previous works. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Xianzhi Du , Xiaolong Wang , Dawei Li , Jingwen Zhu , Serafettin Tasci , Cameron Upright , Stephen Walsh , Larry Davis

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as one of the biologically inspired neural network infrastructures, has drawn increasing attention recently. It adopts binary spike activations to transmit information, thus the multiplications of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yufei Guo , Yuanpei Chen , Xiaode Liu , Weihang Peng , Yuhan Zhang , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

While the deployment of neural networks, yielding impressive results, becomes more prevalent in various applications, their interpretability and understanding remain a critical challenge. Network inversion, a technique that aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Pirzada Suhail , Supratik Chakraborty , Amit Sethi

The distribution of the weights of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) - crucial for uncertainty quantification and robustness - is an eminently complex object due to its extremely high dimensionality. This paper proposes one of the first…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Olivier Laurent , Emanuel Aldea , Gianni Franchi

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

Self-delimiting (SLIM) programs are a central concept of theoretical computer science, particularly algorithmic information & probability theory, and asymptotically optimal program search (AOPS). To apply AOPS to (possibly recurrent) neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Juergen Schmidhuber

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both state-of-the-art classifiers. DNNs perform well due to their representational learning capabilities, while DTs are computationally efficient as they perform inference along one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Noam Gottlieb , Michael Werman

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performances in various computer vision tasks. Advances on CNN architectures have focused mainly on designing convolutional blocks of the feature extractors, but less on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Jaemin Lee , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

Large-scale deep neural networks are both memory intensive and computation-intensive, thereby posing stringent requirements on the computing platforms. Hardware accelerations of deep neural networks have been extensively investigated in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yanzhi Wang , Zheng Zhan , Jiayu Li , Jian Tang , Bo Yuan , Liang Zhao , Wujie Wen , Siyue Wang , Xue Lin

Randomized neural networks (RaNNs) are attractive for partial differential equations (PDEs) because they replace expensive end-to-end training with a linear least-squares solve over randomized hidden features. Their practical performance,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 You Yang , Fei Wang

Self-paced learning and hard example mining re-weight training instances to improve learning accuracy. This paper presents two improved alternatives based on lightweight estimates of sample uncertainty in stochastic gradient descent (SGD):…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-09 Haw-Shiuan Chang , Erik Learned-Miller , Andrew McCallum