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Transferring knowledge from one neural network to another has been shown to be helpful for learning tasks with few training examples. Prevailing fine-tuning methods could potentially contaminate pre-trained features by comparably high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Farshid Varno , Behrouz Haji Soleimani , Marzie Saghayi , Lisa Di Jorio , Stan Matwin

Native ring structures within amorphous networks play a critical role in determining structural and optical properties, in part due to their ability to host dopants such as rare earth ions in silicate systems. In this work, we demonstrate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-16 Zihang Wang , Dirk Bouwmeester

Differentiable rasterization changes the standard formulation of primitive rasterization -- by enabling gradient flow from a pixel to its underlying triangles -- using distribution functions in different stages of rendering, creating a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chenghao Wu , Hamila Mailee , Zahra Montazeri , Tobias Ritschel

This paper investigates the deep learning optimization problem with softmax cross-entropy loss. We propose a layer separation strategy to alleviate the strong nonconvexity encountered during training deep networks. For cross-entropy models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaru Liu , Michael K. Ng , Yiqi Gu

This paper aims to compare different regularization strategies to address a common phenomenon, severe overfitting, in embedding-based neural networks for NLP. We chose two widely studied neural models and tasks as our testbed. We tried…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hao Peng , Lili Mou , Ge Li , Yunchuan Chen , Yangyang Lu , Zhi Jin

Several regularization methods have recently been introduced which force the latent activations of an autoencoder or deep neural network to conform to either a Gaussian or hyperspherical distribution, or to minimize the implicit rank of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Xuefeng Li , Alan Blair

Underpinning the past decades of work on the design, initialization, and optimization of neural networks is a seemingly innocuous assumption: that the network is trained on a \textit{stationary} data distribution. In settings where this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Clare Lyle , Zeyu Zheng , Khimya Khetarpal , Hado van Hasselt , Razvan Pascanu , James Martens , Will Dabney

Regularization is commonly used for alleviating overfitting in machine learning. For convolutional neural networks (CNNs), regularization methods, such as DropBlock and Shake-Shake, have illustrated the improvement in the generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi Wang , Zhen-Peng Bian , Junhui Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Early stopping of iterative algorithms is a widely-used form of regularization in statistics, commonly used in conjunction with boosting and related gradient-type algorithms. Although consistency results have been established in some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-15 Yuting Wei , Fanny Yang , Martin J. Wainwright

We present a novel method for reliably explaining the predictions of neural networks. We consider an explanation reliable if it identifies input features relevant to the model output by considering the input and the neighboring data points.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dohun Lim , Hyeonseok Lee , Sungchan Kim

Prior work has demonstrated a consistent tendency in neural networks engaged in continual learning tasks, wherein intermediate task similarity results in the highest levels of catastrophic interference. This phenomenon is attributed to the…

Machine learning has become a promising approach for molecular modeling. Positional quantities, such as interatomic distances and bond angles, play a crucial role in molecule physics. The existing works rely on careful manual design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Xiang Gao , Weihao Gao , Wenzhi Xiao , Zhirui Wang , Chong Wang , Liang Xiang

In recent years, research on learning with noisy labels has focused on devising novel algorithms that can achieve robustness to noisy training labels while generalizing to clean data. These algorithms often incorporate sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

Algorithm unrolling methods have proven powerful for solving the regularized least squares problem in computational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These approaches unfold an iterative algorithm with a fixed number of iterations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Junno Yun , Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Mehmet Akçakaya

We consider inverse problems estimating distributed parameters from indirect noisy observations through discretization of continuum models described by partial differential or integral equations. It is well understood that the errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Albero Bocchinfuso , Daniela Calvetti , Erkki Somersalo

We propose a deep neural network architecture designed such that its output forms an invertible symplectomorphism of the input. This design draws an analogy to the real-valued non-volume-preserving (real NVP) method used in normalizing flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Qing He , Wei Cai

We introduce an information-theoretic framework for smooth structures on topological manifolds, replacing coordinate charts with small-scale entropy data of local probability probes. A concise set of axioms identifies admissible coordinate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Amandip Sangha

This technical report investigates the potential of Convolutional Neural Networks to post-process images from primary atomization. Three tasks are investigated. First, the detection and segmentation of liquid droplets in degraded optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Geoffroy Chaussonnet , Christian Lieber , Yan Yikang , Wenda Gu , Andreas Bartschat , Markus Reischl , Rainer Koch , Ralf Mikut , Hans-Jörg Bauer

This paper re-visits the spectral method for learning latent variable models defined in terms of observable operators. We give a new perspective on the method, showing that operators can be recovered by minimizing a loss defined on a finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Borja Balle , Ariadna Quattoni , Xavier Carreras

Normalizing flow-based sampling methods have been successful in tackling computational challenges traditionally associated with simulating lattice quantum field theories. Further works have incorporated gauge and translational invariance of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-04-05 Dinesh P. R.