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We perform a study on the generalization ability of the wide two-layer ReLU neural network on $\mathbb{R}$. We first establish some spectral properties of the neural tangent kernel (NTK): $a)$ $K_{d}$, the NTK defined on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$,…

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How can neural networks such as ResNet efficiently learn CIFAR-10 with test accuracy more than 96%, while other methods, especially kernel methods, fall relatively behind? Can we more provide theoretical justifications for this gap?…

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The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

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Neural operators (NOs) employ deep neural networks to learn mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. Deep operator network (DeepONet), a popular NO architecture, has demonstrated success in the real-time prediction of complex…

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We present a novel algorithm for training deep neural networks in supervised (classification and regression) and unsupervised (reinforcement learning) scenarios. This algorithm combines the standard stochastic gradient descent and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arunselvan Ramaswamy , Shalabh Bhatnagar , Naman Saxena

Feature representations from pre-trained deep neural networks have been known to exhibit excellent generalization and utility across a variety of related tasks. Fine-tuning is by far the simplest and most widely used approach that seeks to…

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We investigate unsupervised pre-training of deep architectures as feature generators for "shallow" classifiers. Stacked Denoising Autoencoders (SdA), when used as feature pre-processing tools for SVM classification, can lead to significant…

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well known as the brain-inspired models with high computing efficiency, due to a key component that they utilize spikes as information units, close to the biological neural systems. Although spiking based…

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Deep neural network architectures have recently produced excellent results in a variety of areas in artificial intelligence and visual recognition, well surpassing traditional shallow architectures trained using hand-designed features. The…

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Deep learning has made significant progress in computer vision, specifically in image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The skip connection has played an essential role in the architecture of deep neural…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generated by sequentially performing linear and non-linear processes. Using a combination of linear and non-linear procedures is critical for generating a sufficiently deep feature space. The majority of…

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Neural operators have recently become popular tools for designing solution maps between function spaces in the form of neural networks. Differently from classical scientific machine learning approaches that learn parameters of a known…

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Natural gradient descent (NGD) is a powerful optimization technique for machine learning, but the computational complexity of the inverse Fisher information matrix limits its application in training deep neural networks. To overcome this…

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This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

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To theoretically understand the behavior of trained deep neural networks, it is necessary to study the dynamics induced by gradient methods from a random initialization. However, the nonlinear and compositional structure of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Karl Hajjar , Lénaïc Chizat , Christophe Giraud

Many complex processes can be viewed as dynamical systems on networks. However, in real cases, only the performances of the system are known, the network structure and the dynamical rules are not observed. Therefore, recovering latent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-03 Zhang Zhang , Yi Zhao , Jing Liu , Shuo Wang , Ruyi Tao , Ruyue Xin , Jiang Zhang

The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it is hardly used in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Zhuoran Song , Yihong Xu , Han Li , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

According to the Hughes phenomenon, the major challenges encountered in computations with learning models comes from the scale of complexity, e.g. the so-called curse of dimensionality. There are various approaches for accelerate learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Luisa D'Amore

Deep Neural Networks are built to generalize outside of training set in mind by using techniques such as regularization, early stopping and dropout. But considerations to make them more resilient to adversarial examples are rarely taken. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Arkar Min Aung , Yousef Fadila , Radian Gondokaryono , Luis Gonzalez

In this work, we propose to train a deep neural network by distributed optimization over a graph. Two nonlinear functions are considered: the rectified linear unit (ReLU) and a linear unit with both lower and upper cutoffs (DCutLU). The…

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