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DNN structures are continuously developing and achieving high performances in classification problems. Also, it is observed that success rates obtained with DNNs are higher than those obtained with traditional neural networks. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Tamer Ölmez , Zümray Dokur

We propose a novel framework for training neural networks which is capable of learning 3D information of non-rigid objects when only 2D annotations are available as ground truths. Recently, there have been some approaches that incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Sungheon Park , Minsik Lee , Nojun Kwak

Neural networks in general, from MLPs and CNNs to attention-based Transformers, are constructed from layers of linear combinations followed by nonlinear operations such as ReLU, Sigmoid, or Softmax. Despite their strength, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Weiguo Lu , Gangnan Yuan , Hong-kun Zhang , Shangyang Li

A deep residual network, built by stacking a sequence of residual blocks, is easy to train, because identity mappings skip residual branches and thus improve information flow. To further reduce the training difficulty, we present a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Liming Zhao , Jingdong Wang , Xi Li , Zhuowen Tu , Wenjun Zeng

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on compositional tasks can exhibit functional modularity, in which neurons can be clustered by activity similarity and participation in shared computational subtasks. Unlike brains, these RNNs do not…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-12 Ziming Liu , Mikail Khona , Ila R. Fiete , Max Tegmark

This work attempts to address two fundamental questions about the structure of the convolutional neural networks (CNN): 1) why a non-linear activation function is essential at the filter output of every convolutional layer? 2) what is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 C. -C. Jay Kuo

Structural modularity is a pervasive feature of biological neural networks, which have been linked to several functional and computational advantages. Yet, the use of modular architectures in artificial neural networks has been relatively…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mani Hamidi , Sina Khajehabdollahi , Emmanouil Giannakakis , Tim Schäfer , Anna Levina , Charley M. Wu

Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically use the same activation function (usually ReLU) for all neurons with non-linear mapping operations. For example, the deep convolutional architecture Inception-v4 uses ReLU. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Luna M. Zhang

Inspired by the brain's spike-based computation, spiking neural networks (SNNs) inherently possess temporal activation sparsity. However, when it comes to the sparse training of SNNs in the structural connection domain, existing methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuan Hua , Jilin Zhang , Yingtao Zhang , Wenqi Gu , Leyi You , Baobo Xiong , Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Hong Chen

Consider the multivariate nonparametric regression model. It is shown that estimators based on sparsely connected deep neural networks with ReLU activation function and properly chosen network architecture achieve the minimax rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Neural Network has been successfully applied to many real-world problems, such as image recognition and machine translation. However, for the current architecture of neural networks, it is hard to perform complex cognitive tasks, for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Liyao Gao

Many modern neural network architectures are trained in an overparameterized regime where the parameters of the model exceed the size of the training dataset. Sufficiently overparameterized neural network architectures in principle have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Samet Oymak , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

For classification, neural networks typically learn by minimizing cross-entropy, but are evaluated and compared using accuracy. This disparity suggests neural loss function search (NLFS), the search for a drop-in replacement loss function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Brandon Morgan , Dean Hougen

Recently, Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) obtained huge success in numerous vision tasks. In particular, DenseNets have demonstrated that feature reuse via dense skip connections can effectively alleviate the difficulty of training very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Mingjie Wang , Jun Zhou , Wendong Mao , Minglun Gong

In adversarial attacks to machine-learning classifiers, small perturbations are added to input that is correctly classified. The perturbations yield adversarial examples, which are virtually indistinguishable from the unperturbed input, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-26 Luca de Alfaro

Activation functions play a critical role in the performance and behaviour of neural networks, significantly impacting their ability to learn and generalise. Traditional activation functions, such as ReLU, sigmoid, and tanh, have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Benjamin David Winter , William John Teahan

We present a general variational framework for the training of freeform nonlinearities in layered computational architectures subject to some slope constraints. The regularization that we add to the traditional training loss penalizes the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-31 Michael Unser , Alexis Goujon , Stanislas Ducotterd

The Lipschitz constant of a neural network is connected to several important properties of the network such as its robustness and generalization. It is thus useful in many settings to estimate the Lipschitz constant of a model. Prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Giannis Nikolentzos , Konstantinos Skianis

In this paper, we investigate a constrained formulation of neural networks where the output is a convex function of the input. We show that the convexity constraints can be enforced on both fully connected and convolutional layers, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sarath Sivaprasad , Ankur Singh , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) dominate various computer vision tasks since Alex Krizhevsky showed that they can be trained effectively and reduced the top-5 error from 26.2 % to 15.3 % on the ImageNet large scale visual recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Martin Thoma