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Knowledge embedded in the weights of the artificial neural network can be used to improve the network structure, such as in network compression. However, the knowledge is set up by hand, which may not be very accurate, and relevant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mengqiao Han , Xiabi Liu , Zhaoyang Hai , Xin Duan

Recent research towards understanding neural networks probes models in a top-down manner, but is only able to identify model tendencies that are known a priori. We propose Susceptibility Identification through Fine-Tuning (SIFT), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jonas Pfeiffer , Aishwarya Kamath , Iryna Gurevych , Sebastian Ruder

We present Feature-Align CNN (FA-CNN), a prototype CNN architecture with intrinsic class attribution through end-to-end feature alignment. Our intuition is that the use of unordered operations such as Linear and Conv2D layers cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Parniyan Farvardin , David Chapman

Feature representations, both hand-designed and learned ones, are often hard to analyze and interpret, even when they are extracted from visual data. We propose a new approach to study image representations by inverting them with an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Domain-decomposed variants of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) such as finite basis PINNs (FBPINNs) mitigate some of PINNs' issues like slow convergence and spectral bias through localisation, but still rely on iterative nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Samuel Anderson , Victorita Dolean , Ben Moseley , Jennifer Pestana

In this paper, we aim at developing scalable neural network-type learning systems. Motivated by the idea of "constructive neural networks" in approximation theory, we focus on "constructing" rather than "training" feed-forward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Shaobo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaoqin Zhang

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have made remarkable leap-forwards in dense image prediction. However, the issue of feature alignment remains as neglected by most existing approaches for simplicity. Direct pixel addition between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Shihua Huang , Zhichao Lu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He

The numerical solution of differential equations using neural networks has become a central topic in scientific computing, with Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) emerging as a powerful paradigm for both forward and inverse problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kazuaki Tanaka , Kohei Yatabe

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) constitute a flexible approach to both finding solutions and identifying parameters of partial differential equations. Most works on the topic assume noiseless data, or data contaminated with weak…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Philipp Pilar , Niklas Wahlström

Link prediction is a fundamental problem of data science, which usually calls for unfolding the mechanisms that govern the micro-dynamics of networks. In this regard, using features obtained from network embedding for predicting links has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chuanting Zhang , Ke-ke Shang , Jingping Qiao

Utilizing physics-informed neural networks (PINN) to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) becomes a hot issue and also shows its great powers, but still suffers from the dilemmas of limited predicted accuracy in the sampling domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhi-Yong Zhang , Jie-Ying Li , Lei-Lei Guo

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

We introduce the Differentiable Weightless Neural Network (DWN), a model based on interconnected lookup tables. Training of DWNs is enabled by a novel Extended Finite Difference technique for approximate differentiation of binary values. We…

A neural network is essentially a high-dimensional complex mapping model by adjusting network weights for feature fitting. However, the spectral bias in network training leads to unbearable training epochs for fitting the high-frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Zhi Zeng , Pengpeng Shi , Fulei Ma , Peihan Qi

In this paper, we propose a novel training strategy for convolutional neural network(CNN) named Feature Mining, that aims to strengthen the network's learning of the local feature. Through experiments, we find that semantic contained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Tianshu Xie , Xuan Cheng , Xiaomin Wang , Minghui Liu , Jiali Deng , Ming Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven machine learning algorithms that have been widely recognized in producing ultra-high-energy-efficient hardware. Among existing SNNs, unsupervised SNNs based on synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingyuan Meng , Xingyu Yang , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Shanlin Xiao , Zhiyi Yu

Modelling complex deformation for soft robotics provides a guideline to understand their behaviour, leading to safe interaction with the environment. However, building a surrogate model with high accuracy and fast inference speed can be…

Neural networks are usually not the tool of choice for nonparametric high-dimensional problems where the number of input features is much larger than the number of observations. Though neural networks can approximate complex multivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-25 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

In recent years there has been great interest in using deep neural networks (DNN) for super-resolution image reconstruction including for structured illumination microscopy (SIM). While these methods have shown very promising results, they…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zachary Burns , Zhaowei Liu

Neural networks achieve remarkable performance through superposition: encoding multiple features as overlapping directions in activation space rather than dedicating individual neurons to each feature. This challenges interpretability, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Leonard Bereska , Zoe Tzifa-Kratira , Reza Samavi , Efstratios Gavves