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Lipschitz-constrained neural networks have several advantages over unconstrained ones and can be applied to a variety of problems, making them a topic of attention in the deep learning community. Unfortunately, it has been shown both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Stanislas Ducotterd , Alexis Goujon , Pakshal Bohra , Dimitris Perdios , Sebastian Neumayer , Michael Unser

Effective regularisation of neural networks is essential to combat overfitting due to the large number of parameters involved. We present an empirical analogue to the Lipschitz constant of a feed-forward neural network, which we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 Henry Gouk , Bernhard Pfahringer , Eibe Frank , Michael Cree

We develop the first (to the best of our knowledge) provably correct neural networks for a precise computational task, with the proof of correctness generated by an automated verification algorithm without any human input. Prior work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Rudy Bunel , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , M. Pawan Kumar , Alessandro De Palma , Robert Stanforth

This work focuses on reducing neural network size, which is a major driver of neural network execution time, power consumption, bandwidth, and memory footprint. A key challenge is to reduce size in a manner that can be exploited readily for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Szabolcs Cséfalvay , James Imber

Low bit-width weights and activations are an effective way of combating the increasing need for both memory and compute power of Deep Neural Networks. In this work, we present a probabilistic training method for Neural Network with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorn W. T. Peters , Max Welling

Modern neural networks exhibit a striking property: basins of attraction in the loss landscape are often connected by low-loss paths, yet optimization dynamics generally remain confined to a single convex basin and rarely explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Luca Di Carlo , Chase Goddard , David J. Schwab

In the wake of the explosive growth in smartphones and cyberphysical systems, there has been an accelerating shift in how data is generated away from centralised data towards on-device generated data. In response, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ross Drummond , Mathew C. Turner , Stephen R. Duncan

Recently a number of papers have suggested using neural-networks in order to approximate policy functions in DSGE models, while avoiding the curse of dimensionality, which for example arises when solving many HANK models, and while…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-23 Emmet Hall-Hoffarth

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in a variety of real world applications, i.e., image classification. However, tons of parameters in the networks restrict the efficiency of neural networks due to the large model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yuzhe Ma , Ran Chen , Wei Li , Fanhua Shang , Wenjian Yu , Minsik Cho , Bei Yu

We analyze the topological properties of the set of functions that can be implemented by neural networks of a fixed size. Surprisingly, this set has many undesirable properties. It is highly non-convex, except possibly for a few exotic…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Philipp Petersen , Mones Raslan , Felix Voigtlaender

The ubiquity of deep learning algorithms in various applications has amplified the need for assuring their robustness against small input perturbations such as those occurring in adversarial attacks. Existing complete verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Matthias König , Xiyue Zhang , Holger H. Hoos , Marta Kwiatkowska , Jan N. van Rijn

Enforcing constraint satisfaction in neural network outputs is critical for safety, reliability, and physical fidelity in many control and decision-making applications. While soft-constrained methods penalize constraint violations during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Andrea Goertzen , Kaveh Alim , Youngjae Min , Navid Azizan

Neural networks (NNs) have been extremely successful across many tasks in machine learning. Quantization of NN weights has become an important topic due to its impact on their energy efficiency, inference time and deployment on hardware.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Burak Bartan , Mert Pilanci

Overparameterized neural networks enjoy great representation power on complex data, and more importantly yield sufficiently smooth output, which is crucial to their generalization and robustness. Most existing function approximation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Hao Liu , Minshuo Chen , Siawpeng Er , Wenjing Liao , Tong Zhang , Tuo Zhao

In the area of physical simulations, nearly all neural-network-based methods directly predict future states from the input states. However, many traditional simulation engines instead model the constraints of the system and select the state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yulia Rubanova , Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Tobias Pfaff , Peter Battaglia

Compressing neural nets is an active research problem, given the large size of state-of-the-art nets for tasks such as object recognition, and the computational limits imposed by mobile devices. We give a general formulation of model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán

Compact neural network offers many benefits for real-world applications. However, it is usually challenging to train the compact neural networks with small parameter sizes and low computational costs to achieve the same or better model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shen Ren , Haosen Shi

This paper explores learned-context neural networks. It is a multi-task learning architecture based on a fully shared neural network and an augmented input vector containing trainable task parameters. The architecture is interesting due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anders T. Sandnes , Bjarne Grimstad , Odd Kolbjørnsen

This study introduces a novel approach to ensure the existence and uniqueness of optimal parameters in neural networks. The paper details how a recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be transformed into a contraction in a domain where its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Valdes Gonzalo

Understanding how biological constraints shape neural computation is a central goal of computational neuroscience. Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks provide a promising avenue to study how modelled constraints shape the combined…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Cornelia Sheeran , Andrew S. Ham , Duncan E. Astle , Jascha Achterberg , Danyal Akarca