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Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) have become one of the fundamental architectural component in point cloud analysis due to its effective feature learning mechanism. However, when processing complex geometric structures in point clouds, MLPs'…

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The attention mechanism has become a go-to technique for natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Recently, the MLP-Mixer and other MLP-based architectures, based simply on multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), are also powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Tian Lv , Chongyang Bai , Chaojie Wang

For classification and regression on tabular data, the dominance of gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) has recently been challenged by often much slower deep learning methods with extensive hyperparameter tuning. We address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 David Holzmüller , Léo Grinsztajn , Ingo Steinwart

Networks extracted from social media platforms frequently include multiple types of links that dynamically change over time; these links can be used to represent dyadic interactions such as economic transactions, communications, and shared…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Alireza Hajibagheri , Gita Sukthankar , Kiran Lakkaraju

Equality reasoning is ubiquitous and purely abstract: sameness or difference may be evaluated no matter the nature of the underlying objects. As a result, same-different (SD) tasks have been extensively studied as a starting point for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 William L. Tong , Cengiz Pehlevan

Pooling operations, which can be calculated at low cost and serve as a linear or nonlinear transfer function for data reduction, are found in almost every modern neural network. Countless modern approaches have already tackled replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wolfgang Fuhl , Enkelejda Kasneci

The paper introduces a number of structural and functional features of classification of multilayer networks (MLN), by means of which distinguish monoflow partially overlapped MLN, that are quite common in the study of intersystem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-23 Olexandr Polishchuk

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

In this paper the Mechanical Neural Network(MNN) is introduced, a physical implementation of a multilayer perceptron(MLP) with ReLU activation functions, two input neurons, four hidden neurons and two output neurons. This physical model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Axel Schaffland

We present a fully constructive analysis of deep ReLU neural networks for classification and function approximation tasks. First, we prove that any dataset with $N$ distinct points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $M$ output classes can be exactly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-25 Martín Hernández , Enrique Zuazua

We explore the effect of introducing prior information into the intermediate level of neural networks for a learning task on which all the state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms tested failed to learn. We motivate our work from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Çağlar Gülçehre , Yoshua Bengio

We show that pre-trained Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) such as StyleGAN and BigGAN can be used as a latent bank to improve the performance of image super-resolution. While most existing perceptual-oriented approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xiangyu Xu , Xintao Wang , Jinwei Gu , Chen Change Loy

From the perspective of expressive power, this work compares multi-layer Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with a simplified alternative that we call Graph-Augmented Multi-Layer Perceptrons (GA-MLPs), which first augments node features with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Lei Chen , Zhengdao Chen , Joan Bruna

In this paper, we present a novel embedded feature selection method based on a Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) network and generalize it for group-feature or sensor selection problems, which can control the level of redundancy among the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aytijhya Saha , Nikhil R. Pal

In terms of accuracy, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the best architectural choice for the node classification task. Their drawback in real-world deployment is the latency that emerges from the neighbourhood processing operation. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

While machine learning is widely used to optimize wireless networks, training a separate model for each task in communication and localization is becoming increasingly unsustainable due to the significant costs associated with training and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Mohammad Cheraghinia , Eli De Poorter , Jaron Fontaine , Kwang Soon Kim , Merouane Debbah , Adnan Shahid

Can a pretrained neural network adapt its architecture to different inputs without any finetuning? Do we need all layers for simple tasks, and are they adequate for challenging tasks? We found that the layers of a pretrained large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ziyue Li , Yang Li , Tianyi Zhou

Transformer models have demonstrated superior performance in natural language processing. The dot product self-attention in Transformer allows us to model interactions between words. However, this modeling comes with significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Zhaozhuo Xu , Minghao Yan , Junyan Zhang , Anshumali Shrivastava

Scheduling flexible sources to promote the integration of renewable generation is one fundamental problem for operating active distribution networks (ADNs). However, existing works are usually based on power flow models, which require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ge Chen , Hongcai Zhang , Yonghua Song

In modern computer architectures, the performance of many memory-bound workloads (e.g., machine learning, graph processing, databases) is limited by the data movement bottleneck that emerges when transferring large amounts of data between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Pedro Carrinho , Hamid Moghadaspour , Oscar Ferraz , João Dinis Ferreira , Yann Falevoz , Vitor Silva , Gabriel Falcao