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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) underlie low-power, fault-tolerant information processing in the brain and could constitute a power-efficient alternative to conventional deep neural networks when implemented on suitable neuromorphic hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Julian Rossbroich , Julia Gygax , Friedemann Zenke

Algorithmic design in neural architecture search (NAS) has received a lot of attention, aiming to improve performance and reduce computational cost. Despite the great advances made, few authors have proposed to tailor initialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kalifou René Traoré , Andrés Camero , Xiao Xiang Zhu

To improve deep-learning performance in low-resource settings, many researchers have redesigned model architectures or applied additional data (e.g., external resources, unlabeled samples). However, there have been relatively few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hongseok Choi , Hyunju Lee

We employ constraints to control the parameter space of deep neural networks throughout training. The use of customized, appropriately designed constraints can reduce the vanishing/exploding gradients problem, improve smoothness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Benedict Leimkuhler , Tiffany Vlaar , Timothée Pouchon , Amos Storkey

This work investigates the ways in which deep learning methods can benefit from random projection (RP), a classic linear dimensionality reduction method. We focus on two areas where, as we have found, employing RP techniques can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Piotr Iwo Wójcik

The Transformer translation model employs residual connection and layer normalization to ease the optimization difficulties caused by its multi-layer encoder/decoder structure. Previous research shows that even with residual connection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Hongfei Xu , Qiuhui Liu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong , Jingyi Zhang

Initialization plays a critical role in Deep Neural Network training, directly influencing convergence, stability, and generalization. Common approaches such as Glorot and He initializations rely on randomness, which can produce uneven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Alberto Fernández-Hernández , Jose I. Mestre , Manuel F. Dolz , Jose Duato , Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí

Informed by the basic geometry underlying feed forward neural networks, we initialize the weights of the first layer of a neural network using the linear discriminants which best distinguish individual classes. Networks initialized in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Marissa Masden , Dev Sinha

Appropriate weight initialization settings, along with the ReLU activation function, have become cornerstones of modern deep learning, enabling the training and deployment of highly effective and efficient neural network models across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hyunwoo Lee , Yunho Kim , Seung Yeop Yang , Hayoung Choi

We propose a simple, data-driven approach to help guide hyperparameter selection for neural network initialization. We leverage the relationship between neural network and Gaussian process models having corresponding activation and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Anthony S. Tai , Chunfeng Huang

In past few years, various initialization schemes have been proposed. These schemes are glorot initialization, He initialization, initialization using orthogonal matrix, random walk method for initialization. Some of these methods stress on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Vijay Pandey

Non-convex optimization problems are challenging to solve; the success and computational expense of a gradient descent algorithm or variant depend heavily on the initialization strategy. Often, either random initialization is used or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kartik Ahuja , Amit Dhurandhar , Kush R. Varshney

In this work, we propose a new training method for finding minimum weight norm solutions in over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). This method seeks to improve training speed and generalization performance by framing NN training as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-22 Yamini Bansal , Madhu Advani , David D Cox , Andrew M Saxe

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Good weight initialization serves as an effective measure to reduce the training cost of a deep neural network (DNN) model. The choice of how to initialize parameters is challenging and may require manual tuning, which can be time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Optimal parameter initialization remains a crucial problem for neural network training. A poor weight initialization may take longer to train and/or converge to sub-optimal solutions. Here, we propose a method of weight re-initialization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Norman Mu , Zhewei Yao , Amir Gholami , Kurt Keutzer , Michael Mahoney

Dedicated neural network (NN) architectures have been designed to handle specific data types (such as CNN for images or RNN for text), which ranks them among state-of-the-art methods for dealing with these data. Unfortunately, no…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Patrick Lutz , Ludovic Arnould , Claire Boyer , Erwan Scornet

In many real-world deployments of machine learning systems, data arrive piecemeal. These learning scenarios may be passive, where data arrive incrementally due to structural properties of the problem (e.g., daily financial data) or active,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jordan T. Ash , Ryan P. Adams

The selection of initial parameter values for gradient-based optimization of deep neural networks is one of the most impactful hyperparameter choices in deep learning systems, affecting both convergence times and model performance. Yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Wei Hu , Lechao Xiao , Jeffrey Pennington

In this paper, we develop a new optimization framework for the least squares learning problem via fully connected neural networks or physics-informed neural networks. The gradient descent sometimes behaves inefficiently in deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaru Liu , Yiqi Gu , Michael K. Ng