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Several recent works have empirically observed that Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) are (approximately) invertible. To understand this approximate invertibility phenomenon and how to leverage it more effectively, we focus on a theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Zhang , Kibok Lee , Yuting Zhang , Honglak Lee

We reformulate the problem of encoding a multi-scale representation of a sequence in a language model by casting it in a continuous learning framework. We propose a hierarchical multi-scale language model in which short time-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Thomas Wolf , Julien Chaumond , Clement Delangue

Scaling model capacity has been vital in the success of deep learning. For a typical network, necessary compute resources and training time grow dramatically with model size. Conditional computation is a promising way to increase the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Louis Kirsch , Julius Kunze , David Barber

Finding neural network weights that generalize well from small datasets is difficult. A promising approach is to learn a weight initialization such that a small number of weight changes results in low generalization error. We show that this…

In this paper, we present a novel learning approach based on Neurovectors, an innovative paradigm that structures information through interconnected nodes and vector relationships for tabular data processing. Unlike traditional artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 J. C. Husillos , A. Gallego , A. Roma , A. Troncoso

This study investigates how weight decay affects the update behavior of individual neurons in deep neural networks through a combination of applied analysis and experimentation. Weight decay can cause the expected magnitude and angular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Atli Kosson , Bettina Messmer , Martin Jaggi

Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

This study proposes a method to enhance neural network performance when training data and application data are not very similar, e.g., out of distribution problems, as well as pattern and regime shifts. The method consists of three main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jan Saynisch-Wagner , Saran Rajendran Sari

We propose a diffractive neural network with strong robustness based on Weight Noise Injection training, which achieves accurate and fast optical-based classification while diffraction layers have a certain amount of surface shape error. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Jiashuo Shi

Questions remain on the robustness of data-driven learning methods when crossing the gap from simulation to reality. We utilize weight anchoring, a method known from continual learning, to cultivate and fixate desired behavior in Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Steffen Gracla , Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Our theoretical understanding of deep learning has not kept pace with its empirical success. While network architecture is known to be critical, we do not yet understand its effect on learned representations and network behavior, or how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Andrew M. Saxe , Shagun Sodhani , Sam Lewallen

In this paper, we introduce the problem of jointly learning feed-forward neural networks across a set of relevant but diverse datasets. Compared to learning a separate network from each dataset in isolation, joint learning enables us to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Zaiwei Zhang , Xiangru Huang , Qixing Huang , Xiao Zhang , Yuan Li

Deep Neural Networks are robust to minor perturbations of the learned network parameters and their minor modifications do not change the overall network response significantly. This allows space for model stealing, where a malevolent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Kálmán Szentannai , Jalal Al-Afandi , András Horváth

Wavelets are well known for data compression, yet have rarely been applied to the compression of neural networks. This paper shows how the fast wavelet transform can be used to compress linear layers in neural networks. Linear layers still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Moritz Wolter , Shaohui Lin , Angela Yao

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence. While recent approaches achieve some degree of CL in deep neural networks, they either (1) grow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

In this paper, we explore the idea of weight sharing over multiple scales in convolutional networks. Inspired by traditional computer vision approaches, we share the weights of convolution kernels over different scales in the same layers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shubhra Aich , Ian Stavness , Yasuhiro Taniguchi , Masaki Yamazaki

This paper proposes to study neural networks through neuronal correlation, a statistical measure of correlated neuronal activity on the penultimate layer. We show that neuronal correlation can be efficiently estimated via weight matrix, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Gaojie Jin , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Whether deep neural networks can exhibit emergent behaviour is not only relevant for understanding how deep learning works, it is also pivotal for estimating potential security risks of increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pascal de Jong , Felix Meigel , Steffen Rulands

Traditionally, deep learning algorithms update the network weights whereas the network architecture is chosen manually, using a process of trial and error. In this work, we propose two novel approaches that automatically update the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ozan İrsoy , Ethem Alpaydın

Deep reinforcement learning techniques have demonstrated superior performance in a wide variety of environments. As improvements in training algorithms continue at a brisk pace, theoretical or empirical studies on understanding what these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Raghuram Mandyam Annasamy , Katia Sycara