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Due to the nonlinearity of artificial neural networks, designing topologies for deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) is a challenging task and often only heuristic approach, such as trial and error, can be applied. An evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Honglei Zhang , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

Deep neural networks have recently achieved state of the art performance thanks to new training algorithms for rapid parameter estimation and new regularization methods to reduce overfitting. However, in practice the network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Minyoung Kim , Luca Rigazio

This work attempts to interpret modern deep (convolutional) networks from the principles of rate reduction and (shift) invariant classification. We show that the basic iterative gradient ascent scheme for optimizing the rate reduction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Yaodong Yu , Chong You , Haozhi Qi , John Wright , Yi Ma

Neural networks and evolutionary computation have a rich intertwined history. They most commonly appear together when an evolutionary algorithm optimises the parameters and topology of a neural network for reinforcement learning problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Alexander W. Churchill , Siddharth Sigtia , Chrisantha Fernando

Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms aim to discover diverse, high-performing solutions across behavioral niches. However, QD search often stagnates as incremental variation operators struggle to propagate building blocks across large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Joshua Hutchinson , J. Michael Herrmann , Simón C. Smith

Phase-field modeling is an effective but computationally expensive method for capturing the mesoscale morphological and microstructure evolution in materials. Hence, fast and generalizable surrogate models are needed to alleviate the cost…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-01 Vivek Oommen , Khemraj Shukla , Somdatta Goswami , Remi Dingreville , George Em Karniadakis

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is an adversarial model, and it has been demonstrated to be effective for various generative tasks. However, GAN and its variants also suffer from many training problems, such as mode collapse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Junjie Li , Junwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Gong , Shuai Lü

Even though convolutional neural networks have become the method of choice in many fields of computer vision, they still lack interpretability and are usually designed manually in a cumbersome trial-and-error process. This paper aims at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Maria Ximena Bastidas Rodriguez , Adrien Gruson , Luisa F. Polania , Shin Fujieda , Flavio Prieto Ortiz , Kohei Takayama , Toshiya Hachisuka

Neuroevolution is one of the methodologies that can be used for learning optimal architecture during training. It uses evolutionary algorithms to generate the topology of artificial neural networks and its parameters. The main benefits are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 M. Pietroń , D. Żurek , K. Faber , R. Corizzo

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have constantly achieved better performance over years by introducing more complex topology, and enlarging the capacity towards deeper and wider CNNs. This makes the manual design of CNNs extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Vasco Lopes , Paulo Fazendeiro

This study introduces a novel theoretical framework, the Stacked Autoencoder Evolution Hypothesis, which proposes that biological evolutionary systems operate through multi-layered self-encoding and decoding processes, analogous to stacked…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hiroyuki Iizuka

Data-efficient image classification is a challenging task that aims to solve image classification using small training data. Neural network-based deep learning methods are effective for image classification, but they typically require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

A promising paradigm for achieving highly efficient deep neural networks is the idea of evolutionary deep intelligence, which mimics biological evolution processes to progressively synthesize more efficient networks. A crucial design factor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Elnaz Barshan , Alexander Wong

We propose a novel method to merge convolutional neural-nets for the inference stage. Given two well-trained networks that may have different architectures that handle different tasks, our method aligns the layers of the original networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Yi-Min Chou , Yi-Ming Chan , Jia-Hong Lee , Chih-Yi Chiu , Chu-Song Chen

We propose a new algorithm to learn a one-hidden-layer convolutional neural network where both the convolutional weights and the outputs weights are parameters to be learned. Our algorithm works for a general class of (potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Simon S. Du , Surbhi Goel

The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Risto Miikkulainen , Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Aditya Rawal , Dan Fink , Olivier Francon , Bala Raju , Hormoz Shahrzad , Arshak Navruzyan , Nigel Duffy , Babak Hodjat

We introduce a novel weighted convolution operator that enhances traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by integrating a spatial density function into the convolution operator. This extension enables the network to differentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Simone Cammarasana , Giuseppe Patanè

We introduce a new framework for manipulating and interacting with deep generative models that we call network bending. We present a comprehensive set of deterministic transformations that can be inserted as distinct layers into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Terence Broad , Frederic Fol Leymarie , Mick Grierson

Normalization techniques have become a basic component in modern convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). In particular, many recent works demonstrate that promoting the orthogonality of the weights helps train deep models and improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Sheng Liu , Xiao Li , Yuexiang Zhai , Chong You , Zhihui Zhu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Qing Qu