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More and more empirical and theoretical evidence shows that deepening neural networks can effectively improve their performance under suitable training settings. However, deepening the backbone of neural networks will inevitably and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Zhongzhan Huang

We introduce Dynamic Retrieval-Augmented Expert Networks (DRAE), a groundbreaking architecture that addresses the challenges of lifelong learning, catastrophic forgetting, and task adaptation by combining the dynamic routing capabilities of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yayu Long , Kewei Chen , Long Jin , Mingsheng Shang

The Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) paradigm, and its reference architecture proposed by the O-RAN Alliance, is paving the way toward open, interoperable, observable and truly intelligent cellular networks. Crucial to this evolution is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Raoul Raftopoulos , Salvatore D'Oro , Tommaso Melodia , Giovanni Schembra

The ROOT based Offline and Online Analysis (ROAn) framework was developed to perform data analysis on data from Depleted P-channel Field Effect Transistor (DePFET) detectors, a type of active pixel sensors developed at the MPI…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-21 Thomas Lauf , Robert Andritschke

Previous literature on unsupervised learning focused on designing structural priors with the aim of learning meaningful features. However, this was done without considering the description length of the learned representations which is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Paschalis Bizopoulos , Dimitrios Koutsouris

Restoring images affected by various types of degradation, such as noise, blur, or improper exposure, remains a significant challenge in computer vision. While recent trends favor complex monolithic all-in-one architectures, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Joanna Wiekiera , Martyna Zur

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) are increasingly adopting data-driven control through Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to optimize complex tasks such as network slicing and mobility management. However, the deployment of DRL in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jie Lu , Peihao Yan , Pang-Ning Tan , Y. Thomas Hou , Huacheng Zeng

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) represent data features by learning the activation functions and demonstrate superior accuracy with fewer parameters, FLOPs, GPU memory usage (Memory), shorter training time (TraT), and testing time (TesT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yanheng Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao , Jianjun Sha , Jian Wang , Shiyong Yan , Kai Qin , Yonggang Zhang , Lianru Gao

Machine learning applied to architecture design presents a promising opportunity with broad applications. Recent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques, in particular, enable efficient exploration in vast design spaces where…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ting-Ru Lin , Drew Penney , Massoud Pedram , Lizhong Chen

We propose rectified factor networks (RFNs) to efficiently construct very sparse, non-linear, high-dimensional representations of the input. RFN models identify rare and small events in the input, have a low interference between code units,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Djork-Arné Clevert , Andreas Mayr , Thomas Unterthiner , Sepp Hochreiter

In this paper, we propose a residual non-local attention network for high-quality image restoration. Without considering the uneven distribution of information in the corrupted images, previous methods are restricted by local convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yulun Zhang , Kunpeng Li , Kai Li , Bineng Zhong , Yun Fu

In this paper, we propose an Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework for wireless networks. The framework coordinates a pool of AI agents guided by Natural Language (NL) inputs from a human operator. At its core, the super agent is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Md Arafat Habib , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Pedro Enrique Iturria Rivera , Yigit Ozcan , Melike Erol-Kantarci

In a centralized RAN, the signals from multiple RAPs are processed centrally in a data center. Centralized RAN enables advanced interference coordination strategies while leveraging the elastic provisioning of data processing resources. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Peter Rost , Salvatore Talarico , Matthew C. Valenti

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

The scaling of large language models to encode all the world's knowledge in model parameters is unsustainable and has exacerbated resource barriers. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a potential solution, yet its application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Varun Nagaraj Rao , Siddharth Choudhary , Aditya Deshpande , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Srikar Appalaraju

Trainable layers such as convolutional building blocks are the standard network design choices by learning parameters to capture the global context through successive spatial operations. When designing an efficient network, trainable layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo , Beomyoung Kim , Byeongho Heo

Existing concealed object segmentation (COS) methods frequently utilize reversible strategies to address uncertain regions. However, these approaches are typically restricted to the mask domain, leaving the potential of the RGB domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Chunming He , Rihan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Chengyu Fang , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Linghe Kong , Deng-Ping Fan , Kai Li , Sina Farsiu

Activation functions play a decisive role in determining the capacity of Deep Neural Networks as they enable neural networks to capture inherent nonlinearities present in data fed to them. The prior research on activation functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jamshaid Ul Rahman , Faiza Makhdoom , Dianchen Lu

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

We consider network sparsification as an $L_0$-norm regularized binary optimization problem, where each unit of a neural network (e.g., weight, neuron, or channel, etc.) is attached with a stochastic binary gate, whose parameters are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Yang Li , Shihao Ji