English
Related papers

Related papers: Can Attention Enable MLPs To Catch Up With CNNs?

200 papers

In many real-life tasks of application of supervised learning approaches, all the training data are not available at the same time. The examples are lifelong image classification or recognition of environmental objects during interaction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Miltiadis Poursanidis , Jenny Benois-Pineau , Akka Zemmari , Boris Mansenca , Aymar de Rugy

Designing machine learning architectures for processing neural networks in their raw weight matrix form is a newly introduced research direction. Unfortunately, the unique symmetry structure of deep weight spaces makes this design very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Idan Achituve , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

A Hyperspectral image contains much more number of channels as compared to a RGB image, hence containing more information about entities within the image. The convolutional neural network (CNN) and the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Uphar Singh , Kumar Saurabh , Neelaksh Trehan , Ranjana Vyas , O. P. Vyas

Deep learning (DL) is characterised by its dynamic nature, with new deep neural network (DNN) architectures and approaches emerging every few years, driving the field's advancement. At the same time, the ever-increasing use of mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ioannis Panopoulos , Sokratis Nikolaidis , Stylianos I. Venieris , Iakovos S. Venieris

A paper published in the CVPR 2019 conference outlines a new technique called 'kervolution' used in a new type of augmented convolutional neural network (CNN) called a 'kervolutional neural network' (KNN). The paper asserts that KNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Nicolas Perez

Deep learning surrogate models are being increasingly used in accelerating scientific simulations as a replacement for costly conventional numerical techniques. However, their use remains a significant challenge when dealing with real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Saurabh Deshpande , Raúl I. Sosa , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Jakub Lengiewicz

During the last years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification. Their architectures have largely drawn inspiration by models of the primate visual system. However, while recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Georgios Zoumpourlis , Alexandros Doumanoglou , Nicholas Vretos , Petros Daras

We study how neural networks trained by gradient descent extrapolate, i.e., what they learn outside the support of the training distribution. Previous works report mixed empirical results when extrapolating with neural networks: while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Keyulu Xu , Mozhi Zhang , Jingling Li , Simon S. Du , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stefanie Jegelka

Designing neural network architectures is a challenging task and knowing which specific layers of a model must be adapted to improve the performance is almost a mystery. In this paper, we introduce a novel theory and metric to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 David Peer , Sebastian Stabinger , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular type of computer model that have proven their worth in many computer vision tasks. Moreover, they form an interesting study object for the field of psychology, with shown correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Laurent Mertens , Elahe' Yargholi , Laura Van Hove , Hans Op de Beeck , Jan Van den Stock , Joost Vennekens

Attention mechanisms, especially self-attention, have played an increasingly important role in deep feature representation for visual tasks. Self-attention updates the feature at each position by computing a weighted sum of features using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Meng-Hao Guo , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

The recent success of Vision Transformers is shaking the long dominance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in image recognition for a decade. Specifically, in terms of robustness on out-of-distribution samples, recent research finds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zeyu Wang , Yutong Bai , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

This paper studies the problem of designing compact binary architectures for vision multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs). We provide extensive analysis on the difficulty of binarizing vision MLPs and find that previous binarization methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yixing Xu , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang

This paper shows that a long chain of perceptrons (that is, a multilayer perceptron, or MLP, with many hidden layers of width one) can be a universal classifier. The classification procedure is not necessarily computationally efficient, but…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Raul Rojas

When optimizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a specific image-based task, specialists commonly overshoot the number of convolutional layers in their designs. By implication, these CNNs are unnecessarily resource intensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mats L. Richter , Julius Schöning , Anna Wiedenroth , Ulf Krumnack

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have come to match and exceed human performance in many settings, the tasks these models optimize for are largely constrained to the level of individual objects, such as classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Max Gupta , Sunayana Rane , R. Thomas McCoy , Thomas L. Griffiths

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance in various fields such as image classification, pattern recognition, and multi-media compression. Two of the feature properties, local connectivity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Qianru Zhang , Meng Zhang , Tinghuan Chen , Zhifei Sun , Yuzhe Ma , Bei Yu

Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) are typically associated with Computer Vision. CNNs are responsible for major breakthroughs in Image Classification and are the core of most Computer Vision systems today. More recently CNNs have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Marc Moreno Lopez , Jugal Kalita

Since their first applications, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have solved problems that have advanced the state-of-the-art in several domains. CNNs represent information using real numbers. Despite encouraging results, theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gerardo Altamirano-Gomez , Carlos Gershenson

Recently, transformer and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) architectures have achieved impressive results on various vision tasks. However, how to effectively combine those operators to form high-performance hybrid visual architectures still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jihao Liu , Xin Huang , Guanglu Song , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu