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We address two questions for training a convolutional neural network (CNN) for hyperspectral image classification: i) is it possible to build a pre-trained network? and ii) is the pre-training effective in furthering the performance? To…

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Neural network-based function approximation plays a pivotal role in the advancement of scientific computing and machine learning. Yet, training such models faces several challenges: (i) each target function often requires training a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xinwen Hu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

Deep neural networks are typically initialized with random weights, with variances chosen to facilitate signal propagation and stable gradients. It is also believed that diversity of features is an important property of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Yaniv Blumenfeld , Dar Gilboa , Daniel Soudry

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

Deep learning relies on good initialization schemes and hyperparameter choices prior to training a neural network. Random weight initializations induce random network ensembles, which give rise to the trainability, training speed, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Rebekka Burkholz , Alina Dubatovka

In medical image segmentation tasks, the scarcity of labeled training data poses a significant challenge when training deep neural networks. When using U-Net-style architectures, it is common practice to address this problem by pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Gábor Hidy , Bence Bakos , András Lukács

Neural networks are the pinnacle of Artificial Intelligence, as in recent years we witnessed many novel architectures, learning and optimization techniques for deep learning. Capitalizing on the fact that neural networks inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Stratis Limnios , George Dasoulas , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Translating neural networks from theory to clinical practice has unique challenges, specifically in the field of neuroimaging. In this paper, we present DeepNeuro, a deep learning framework that is best-suited to putting deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Andrew Beers , James Brown , Ken Chang , Katharina Hoebel , Elizabeth Gerstner , Bruce Rosen , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

A good initialization of deep learning models is essential since it can help them converge better and faster. However, pretraining large models is unaffordable for many researchers, which makes a desired prediction for initial parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xinyu Zhou , Boris Knyazev , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Jie Fu

We investigate deep morphological neural networks (DMNNs). We demonstrate that despite their inherent non-linearity, "linear" activations are essential for DMNNs. To preserve their inherent sparsity, we propose architectures that constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Konstantinos Fotopoulos , Petros Maragos

Deep learning algorithms have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various tasks of image restoration. This was made possible through the ability of CNNs to learn from large exemplar sets. However, the latter becomes an issue for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Jon Yngve Hardeberg

Traditional initialisation methods, e.g. He and Xavier, have been effective in avoiding the problem of vanishing or exploding gradients in neural networks. However, they only use simple pointwise distributions, which model one-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Christian Harder , Moritz Fuchs , Yuri Tolkach , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) can be seriously impacted by the initial parameters assignment, which may result in poor generalization performances on new unseen data. With the objective to tackle this crucial issue, in the context of RNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Dino Ienco , Roberto Interdonato , Raffaele Gaetano

Indoor robots rely on depth to perform tasks like navigation or obstacle detection, and single-image depth estimation is widely used to assist perception. Most indoor single-image depth prediction focuses less on model generalizability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Cho-Ying Wu , Yiqi Zhong , Junying Wang , Ulrich Neumann

Training large neural networks is possible by training a smaller hypernetwork that predicts parameters for the large ones. A recently released Graph HyperNetwork (GHN) trained this way on one million smaller ImageNet architectures is able…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Boris Knyazev

Transfer learning from supervised ImageNet models has been frequently used in medical image analysis. Yet, no large-scale evaluation has been conducted to benchmark the efficacy of newly-developed pre-training techniques for medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Taher , Fatemeh Haghighi , Ruibin Feng , Michael B. Gotway , Jianming Liang

Deep learning models have become the dominant method for medical image segmentation. However, they often struggle to be generalisable to unknown tasks involving new anatomical structures, labels, or shapes. In these cases, the model needs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Jing Xu

Deep learning-based methods have revolutionized the field of imaging inverse problems, yielding state-of-the-art performance across various imaging domains. The best performing networks incorporate the imaging operator within the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Romain Vo , Julián Tachella

Hybrid volumetric medical image segmentation models, combining the advantages of local convolution and global attention, have recently received considerable attention. While mainly focusing on architectural modifications, most existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Shahina Kunhimon , Abdelrahman Shaker , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Deep neural networks are capable of modelling highly non-linear functions by capturing different levels of abstraction of data hierarchically. While training deep networks, first the system is initialized near a good optimum by greedy…

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