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This paper proposes a new topology optimization method that applies a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is one deep learning technique for topology optimization problems. Using this method, we acquire a structure with a little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Yusuke Takahashi , Yoshiro Suzuki , Akira Todoroki

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are known as a typical kind of brain-inspired models with their unique features of rich neuronal dynamics, diverse coding schemes and low power consumption properties. How to obtain a high-accuracy model has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yihan Lin , Yifan Hu , Shijie Ma , Guoqi Li , Dongjie Yu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), providing more realistic neuronal dynamics, have been shown to achieve performance comparable to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in several machine learning tasks. Information is processed as spikes within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiaqi Lin , Sen Lu , Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

The nature of abstract reasoning is a matter of debate. Modern artificial neural network (ANN) models, like large language models, demonstrate impressive success when tested on abstract reasoning problems. However, it has been argued that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tomer Barak , Yonatan Loewenstein

This paper presents an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that can automate diverse topology optimization (TO) problems having different underlying physics. The architecture uses the encoder-decoder networks with dense…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted considerable attention and have emerged as a new promising paradigm to process graph-structured data. GNNs are usually stacked to multiple layers and the node representations in each layer are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Yihao Chen , Xin Tang , Xianbiao Qi , Chun-Guang Li , Rong Xiao

Artificial neural networks took a lot of inspiration from their biological counterparts in becoming our best machine perceptual systems. This work summarizes some of that history and incorporates modern theoretical neuroscience into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Robert Bain

Given that conventional recommenders, while deeply effective, rely on large distributed systems pre-trained on aggregate user data, incorporating new data necessitates large training cycles, making them slow to adapt to real-time user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rafayel Latif , Satwik Behera , Ali Al-Ebrahim

Learning relies on coordinated synaptic changes in recurrently connected populations of neurons. Therefore, understanding the collective evolution of synaptic connectivity over learning is a key challenge in neuroscience and machine…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-07 Arthur Pellegrino , N Alex Cayco-Gajic , Angus Chadwick

The huge size of deep networks hinders their use in small computing devices. In this paper, we consider compressing the network by weight quantization. We extend a recently proposed loss-aware weight binarization scheme to ternarization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Lu Hou , James T. Kwok

We address a learning-to-normalize problem by proposing Switchable Normalization (SN), which learns to select different normalizers for different normalization layers of a deep neural network. SN employs three distinct scopes to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ping Luo , Jiamin Ren , Zhanglin Peng , Ruimao Zhang , Jingyu Li

The learned weights of a neural network have often been considered devoid of scrutable internal structure. In this paper, however, we look for structure in the form of clusterability: how well a network can be divided into groups of neurons…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Daniel Filan , Stephen Casper , Shlomi Hod , Cody Wild , Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

Knowledge distillation has been proven to be effective in model acceleration and compression. It allows a small network to learn to generalize in the same way as a large network. Recent successes in pre-training suggest the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ye Lin , Yanyang Li , Ziyang Wang , Bei Li , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

We propose a neural network weight encoding method for network property prediction that utilizes set-to-set and set-to-vector functions to efficiently encode neural network parameters. Our approach is capable of encoding neural networks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bruno Andreis , Soro Bedionita , Philip H. S. Torr , Sung Ju Hwang

Machine learning is a field of computer science that builds algorithms that learn. In many cases, machine learning algorithms are used to recreate a human ability like adding a caption to a photo, driving a car, or playing a game. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Ruth Fong , Walter Scheirer , David Cox

Networked structure emerged from a wide range of fields such as biological systems, World Wide Web and technological infrastructure. A deeply insight into the topological complexity of these networks has been gained. Some works start to pay…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-03 Jiang Xiongfei

Neural network binarization accelerates deep models by quantizing their weights and activations into 1-bit. However, there is still a huge performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and their full-precision (FP) counterparts. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yuzhang Shang , Dan Xu , Ziliang Zong , Liqiang Nie , Yan Yan

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

Recently machine learning using neural networks (NN) has been developed, and many new methods have been suggested. These methods are optimized for the type of input data and work very effectively, but they cannot be used with any kind of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Taisuke Katayose