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Conventional wisdom states that deep linear neural networks benefit from expressiveness and optimization advantages over a single linear layer. This paper suggests that, in practice, the training process of deep linear fully-connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Oriel BenShmuel

We present a fast algorithm for training MaxPooling Convolutional Networks to segment images. This type of network yields record-breaking performance in a variety of tasks, but is normally trained on a computationally expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Jonathan Masci , Alessandro Giusti , Dan Cireşan , Gabriel Fricout , Jürgen Schmidhuber

We re-evaluate the standard practice of sharing weights between input and output embeddings in state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. We show that decoupled embeddings provide increased modeling flexibility, allowing us to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Hyung Won Chung , Thibault Févry , Henry Tsai , Melvin Johnson , Sebastian Ruder

Transformers have achieved great success across a wide range of applications, yet the theoretical foundations underlying their success remain largely unexplored. To demystify the strong capacities of transformers applied to versatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chenyang Zhang , Qingyue Zhao , Quanquan Gu , Yuan Cao

Feature-learning deep nets progressively collapse data to a regular low-dimensional geometry. How this emerges from the collective action of nonlinearity, noise, learning rate, and other factors, has eluded first-principles theories built…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-30 Cheng Shi , Liming Pan , Ivan Dokmanić

Video frame interpolation involves the synthesis of new frames from existing ones. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been at the forefront of the recent advances in this field. One popular CNN-based approach involves the application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Issa Khalifeh , Marc Gorriz Blanch , Ebroul Izquierdo , Marta Mrak

Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to embed object transformations. That is highly inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Marcello Chiaberge

As with any task, the process of building machine learning models can benefit from prior experience. Meta-learning for classifier selection leverages knowledge about the characteristics of different datasets and/or the past performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sebastian Maldonado , Carla Vairetti , Ignacio Figueroa

In this work, we suggest Kernel Filtering Linear Overparameterization (KFLO), where a linear cascade of filtering layers is used during training to improve network performance in test time. We implement this cascade in a kernel filtering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Amit Henig , Raja Giryes

Deep neural networks trained on biased data often inadvertently learn unintended inference rules, particularly when labels are strongly correlated with biased features. Existing bias mitigation methods typically involve either a)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi , Priyadarshini Kumari , Vinod K Kurmi

Semantic Segmentation using deep convolutional neural network pose more complex challenge for any GPU intensive task. As it has to compute million of parameters, it results to huge memory consumption. Moreover, extracting finer features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Sharif Amit Kamran , Ali Shihab Sabbir

We show that it is possible to learn protocols that effect fast and efficient state-to-state transformations in simulation models of active particles. By encoding the protocol in the form of a neural network we use evolutionary methods to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-29 Corneel Casert , Stephen Whitelam

Visual perception is driven by the focus on relevant aspects in the surrounding world. To transfer this observation to the digital information processing of computers, attention mechanisms have been introduced to highlight salient image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Nils Körber

Deep neural networks have been shown to be very successful at learning feature hierarchies in supervised learning tasks. Generative models, on the other hand, have benefited less from hierarchical models with multiple layers of latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Shengjia Zhao , Jiaming Song , Stefano Ermon

Neural network-based collaborative filtering systems focus on designing network architectures to learn better representations while fixing the input to the user/item interaction vectors and/or ID. In this paper, we first show that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Ramin Raziperchikolaei , Young-joo Chung

In recent times, using small data to train networks has become a hot topic in the field of deep learning. Reusing pre-trained parameters is one of the most important strategies to address the issue of semi-supervised and transfer learning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-21 Wei Wang , Lin Cheng , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been successfully applied to most relevant tasks in the computer vision community. However, these networks are computationally demanding and not suitable for embedded devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Jose Alvarez , Lars Petersson

As deep neural networks grow in size, from thousands to millions to billions of weights, the performance of those networks becomes limited by our ability to accurately train them. A common naive question arises: if we have a system with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Nathan O. Hodas , Panos Stinis

Learning-based 3D reconstruction using implicit neural representations has shown promising progress not only at the object level but also in more complicated scenes. In this paper, we propose Dynamic Plane Convolutional Occupancy Networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Stefan Lionar , Daniil Emtsev , Dusan Svilarkovic , Songyou Peng