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Despite having high accuracy, neural nets have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples, where a small perturbation to an input can cause it to become mislabeled. We propose metrics for measuring the robustness of a neural net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Osbert Bastani , Yani Ioannou , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Aditya Nori , Antonio Criminisi

Networks are models representing relationships between entities. Often these relationships are explicitly given, or we must learn a representation which generalizes and predicts observed behavior in underlying individual data (e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Ivan Brugere , Chris Kanich , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Inspired from human cognition, machine learning systems are gradually revealing advantages of sparser and more modular architectures. Recent work demonstrates that not only do some modular architectures generalize well, but they also lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sarthak Mittal , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

We explore unique considerations involved in fitting ML models to data with very high precision, as is often required for science applications. We empirically compare various function approximation methods and study how they scale with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Eric J. Michaud , Ziming Liu , Max Tegmark

Ensembles of artificial neural networks show improved generalization capabilities that outperform those of single networks. However, for aggregation to be effective, the individual networks must be as accurate and diverse as possible. An…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 P. M. Granitto , P. F. Verdes , H. A. Ceccatto

We study the problem of online model selection in reinforcement learning, where the selector has access to a class of reinforcement learning agents and learns to adaptively select the agent with the right configuration. Our goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Aida Afshar , Aldo Pacchiano

Multimodal learning has significantly enhanced machine learning performance but still faces numerous challenges and limitations. Imbalanced multimodal learning is one of the problems extensively studied in recent works and is typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shu Shen , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Emergence, where complex behaviors develop from the interactions of simpler components within a network, plays a crucial role in enhancing neural network capabilities. We introduce a quantitative framework to measure emergence during the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Faisal AlShinaifi , Zeyad Almoaigel , Johnny Jingze Li , Abdulla Kuleib , Gabriel A. Silva

Neural Module Networks (NMNs) aim at Visual Question Answering (VQA) via composition of modules that tackle a sub-task. NMNs are a promising strategy to achieve systematic generalization, i.e., overcoming biasing factors in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Vanessa D'Amario , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Deep neural networks proved to be a very useful and powerful tool with many practical applications. They especially excel at learning from large data sets with labeled samples. However, in order to achieve good learning results, the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Włodzimierz Funika , Paweł Koperek

Multi-modal learning aims to enhance performance by unifying models from various modalities but often faces the "modality imbalance" problem in real data, leading to a bias towards dominant modalities and neglecting others, thereby limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yang Yang , Hongpeng Pan , Qing-Yuan Jiang , Yi Xu , Jinghui Tang

The results of training a neural network are heavily dependent on the architecture chosen; and even a modification of only its size, however small, typically involves restarting the training process. In contrast to this, we begin training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Rupert Mitchell , Robin Menzenbach , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mundt

While advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience have enabled the emergence of neural networks capable of learning a wide variety of tasks, our understanding of the temporal dynamics of these networks remains limited. Here, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-13 Shi Gu , Marcelo G Mattar , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

This work introduces a growable and modular neural network architecture that naturally avoids catastrophic forgetting and interference in continual reinforcement learning. The structure of each module allows the selective combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mikel Malagón , Josu Ceberio , Jose A. Lozano

Successful training of convolutional neural networks is often associated with sufficiently deep architectures composed of high amounts of features. These networks typically rely on a variety of regularization and pruning techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Martin Mundt , Tobias Weis , Kishore Konda , Visvanathan Ramesh

Many systems such as critical infrastructure exhibit a modular structure with many links within the modules and few links between them. One approach to increase the robustness of these systems is to reinforce a fraction of the nodes in each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-11 Yael Kfir-Cohen , Dana Vaknin , Shlomo Havlin

A problem related to the development of algorithms designed to find the structure of artificial neural network used for behavioural (black-box) modelling of selected dynamic processes has been addressed in this paper. The research has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Krzysztof Laddach , Rafał Łangowski , Tomasz A. Rutkowski , Bartosz Puchalski

Consider end-to-end training of a multi-modal vs. a single-modal network on a task with multiple input modalities: the multi-modal network receives more information, so it should match or outperform its single-modal counterpart. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Weiyao Wang , Du Tran , Matt Feiszli

One of the main properties of biological systems is modularity, which manifests itself at all levels of their organization, starting with the level of molecular genetics, ending with the level of whole organisms and their communities. In a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Anton Eremeev , Alexander Spirov