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Modern neural network architectures have achieved remarkable accuracies but remain highly dependent on their training data, often lacking interpretability in their learned mappings. While effective on large datasets, they tend to overfit on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Pavia Bera , Sanjukta Bhanja

Deep neural networks have become the default choice for many of the machine learning tasks such as classification and regression. Dropout, a method commonly used to improve the convergence of deep neural networks, generates an ensemble of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Tal Kachman , Michal Moshkovitz , Michal Rosen-Zvi

Given a {features, target} dataset, we introduce an incremental algorithm that constructs an aggregate regressor, using an ensemble of neural networks. It is well known that ensemble methods suffer from the multicollinearity issue, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Pola Lydia Lagari , Lefteri H. Tsoukalas , Salar Safarkhani , Isaac E. Lagaris

Deep neural networks are behind many of the recent successes in machine learning applications. However, these models can produce overconfident decisions while encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) examples or making a wrong prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Navid Kardan , Ankit Sharma , Kenneth O. Stanley

Mutual learning, in which multiple networks learn by sharing their knowledge, improves the performance of each network. However, the performance of ensembles of networks that have undergone mutual learning does not improve significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Naoki Okamoto , Soma Minami , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Dropout is a simple but efficient regularization technique for achieving better generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs); hence it is widely used in tasks based on DNNs. During training, dropout randomly discards a portion of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hiroshi Inoue

The prediction accuracy of the deep neural networks (DNNs) after deployment at the edge can suffer with time due to shifts in the distribution of the new data. To improve robustness of DNNs, they must be able to update themselves to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kshitij Bhardwaj , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Maya Gokhale

Classic results establish that encouraging predictive diversity improves performance in ensembles of low-capacity models, e.g. through bagging or boosting. Here we demonstrate that these intuitions do not apply to high-capacity neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Taiga Abe , E. Kelly Buchanan , Geoff Pleiss , John P. Cunningham

Application of ensemble of neural networks is becoming an imminent tool for advancing the state-of-the-art in deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, training these large numbers of neural networks in the ensemble has an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Hassam Sheikh , Kizza Frisbee , Mariano Phielipp

Data augmentation has been proved effective in training deep models. Existing data augmentation methods tackle the fine-grained problem by blending image pairs and fusing corresponding labels according to the statistics of mixed pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ke Zhang , Jin Fan , Shaoli Huang , Yongliang Qiao , Xiaofeng Yu , Feiwei Qin

Image classification has been a popular task due to its feasibility in real-world applications. Training neural networks by feeding them RGB images has demonstrated success over it. Nevertheless, improving the classification accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tianhao Bu , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of tasks. Most benchmarks are led by ensembles of these powerful learners, but ensembling is typically treated as a post-hoc procedure implemented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Stefan Lee , Senthil Purushwalkam , Michael Cogswell , David Crandall , Dhruv Batra

Autoencoders are a category of neural networks with applications in numerous domains and hence, improvement of their performance is gaining substantial interest from the machine learning community. Ensemble methods, such as boosting, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sai Krishna , Thulasi Tholeti , Sheetal Kalyani

Ensemble learning combines several individual models to obtain a better generalization performance. In this work we present a practical method for estimating the joint power of several classifiers. It differs from existing approaches which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Simi Haber , Yonatan Wexler

Recognizing text in the wild is a really challenging task because of complex backgrounds, various illuminations and diverse distortions, even with deep neural networks (convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks). In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Chun Yang , Xu-Cheng Yin , Zejun Li , Jianwei Wu , Chunchao Guo , Hongfa Wang , Lei Xiao

The importance of accurately quantifying forecast uncertainty has motivated much recent research on probabilistic forecasting. In particular, a variety of deep learning approaches has been proposed, with forecast distributions obtained as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-11 Benedikt Schulz , Lutz Köhler , Sebastian Lerch

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a promising technique for certified robustness, and recently in RS the ensemble of multiple Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has shown state-of-the-art performances due to its variance reduction effect over Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Tao Li , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved great success in a multitude of classification tasks. Ensembles of DNNs have been shown to improve the performance. In this paper, we explore the recent state-of-the-art DNNs used for image…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Venkatesh Duppada , Sushant Hiray

Addressing biases in AI models is crucial for ensuring fair and accurate predictions. However, obtaining large, unbiased datasets for training can be challenging. This paper proposes a comprehensive approach using multiple methods to remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ahmed Radwan , Layan Zaafarani , Jetana Abudawood , Faisal AlZahrani , Fares Fourati

Most deep neural networks are trained under fixed network architectures and require retraining when the architecture changes. If expanding the network's size is needed, it is necessary to retrain from scratch, which is expensive. To avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Chau Pham , Piotr Teterwak , Soren Nelson , Bryan A. Plummer