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Modern neural networks are usually highly over-parameterized. Behind the wide usage of over-parameterized networks is the belief that, if the data are simple, then the trained network will be automatically equivalent to a simple predictor.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-14 Chenyang Zhang , Peifeng Gao , Difan Zou , Yuan Cao

The architecture of a deep neural network is defined explicitly in terms of the number of layers, the width of each layer and the general network topology. Existing optimisation frameworks neglect this information in favour of implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jeremy Bernstein , Chris Mingard , Kevin Huang , Navid Azizan , Yisong Yue

Deep neural networks have become the default choice for many applications like image and video recognition, segmentation and other image and video related tasks.However, a critical challenge with these models is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Sunil Kumar Vengalil , Neelam Sinha

Neural networks are a general framework for differentiable optimization which includes many other machine learning approaches as special cases. In this paper we build a category-theoretic formalism around a neural network system called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Bruno Gavranović

Deep neural networks need a big amount of training data, while in the real world there is a scarcity of data available for training purposes. To resolve this issue unsupervised methods are used for training with limited data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sayed Hashim , Muhammad Ali

We introduce 'semi-unsupervised learning', a problem regime related to transfer learning and zero-shot learning where, in the training data, some classes are sparsely labelled and others entirely unlabelled. Models able to learn from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-12 Matthew Willetts , Aiden Doherty , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Extracting and predicting object structure and dynamics from videos without supervision is a major challenge in machine learning. To address this challenge, we adopt a keypoint-based image representation and learn a stochastic dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Matthias Minderer , Chen Sun , Ruben Villegas , Forrester Cole , Kevin Murphy , Honglak Lee

In which we propose neural network architecture (dune neural network) for recognizing general noisy image without adding any artificial noise in the training data. By representing each free parameter of the network as an uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiong Yunuo , Xiong Hongwei

Convolutional neural networks provide visual features that perform remarkably well in many computer vision applications. However, training these networks requires significant amounts of supervision. This paper introduces a generic framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-19 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach

Deep neural networks have gained tremendous success in a broad range of machine learning tasks due to its remarkable capability to learn semantic-rich features from high-dimensional data. However, they often require large-scale labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Hu Wang , Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Congbo Ma

It has been shown that gradient descent can yield the zero training loss in the over-parametrized regime (the width of the neural networks is much larger than the number of data points). In this work, combining the ideas of some existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Lei Li

We implement stacked denoising autoencoders, a class of neural networks that are capable of learning powerful representations of high dimensional data. We describe stochastic gradient descent for unsupervised training of autoencoders, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jason Liang , Keith Kelly

The move from hand-designed features to learned features in machine learning has been wildly successful. In spite of this, optimization algorithms are still designed by hand. In this paper we show how the design of an optimization algorithm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Marcin Andrychowicz , Misha Denil , Sergio Gomez , Matthew W. Hoffman , David Pfau , Tom Schaul , Brendan Shillingford , Nando de Freitas

Not all neural network architectures are created equal, some perform much better than others for certain tasks. But how important are the weight parameters of a neural network compared to its architecture? In this work, we question to what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Adam Gaier , David Ha

In recent years, there has been an intense debate about how learning in biological neural networks (BNNs) differs from learning in artificial neural networks. It is often argued that the updating of connections in the brain relies only on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Sören Christensen , Jan Kallsen

Training neural networks requires significant computational resources and energy. Methods like mixed-precision and quantization-aware training reduce bit usage, yet they still depend heavily on computationally expensive gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Noa Cohen , Omkar Joglekar , Dotan Di Castro , Vladimir Tchuiev , Shir Kozlovsky , Michal Moshkovitz

Feature ranking and selection is a widely used approach in various applications of supervised dimensionality reduction in discriminative machine learning. Nevertheless there exists significant evidence on feature ranking and selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ozan Ozdenizci , Deniz Erdogmus

Deep neural networks have been very successful in image estimation applications such as compressive-sensing and image restoration, as a means to estimate images from partial, blurry, or otherwise degraded measurements. These networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhihao Xia , Ayan Chakrabarti

Domain randomization through synthesis is a powerful strategy to train networks that are unbiased with respect to the domain of the input images. Randomization allows networks to see a virtually infinite range of intensities and artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xiaoling Hu , Xiangrui Zeng , Oula Puonti , Juan Eugenio Iglesias , Bruce Fischl , Yael Balbastre