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Residual networks (ResNets) are a deep learning architecture that substantially improved the state of the art performance in certain supervised learning tasks. Since then, they have received continuously growing attention. ResNets have a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Johannes Müller

Human interventions are a common source of data in autonomous systems during testing. These interventions provide an important signal about where the current policy needs improvement, but are often noisy and incomplete. We define Robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ethan Pronovost , Khimya Khetarpal , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Recurrent neural networks have gained widespread use in modeling sequence data across various domains. While many successful recurrent architectures employ a notion of gating, the exact mechanism that enables such remarkable performance is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-16 Minmin Chen , Jeffrey Pennington , Samuel S. Schoenholz

We present a general numerical approach for learning unknown dynamical systems using deep neural networks (DNNs). Our method is built upon recent studies that identified the residue network (ResNet) as an effective neural network structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zhen Chen , Dongbin Xiu

Residual learning is a recently proposed learning framework to facilitate the training of very deep neural networks. Residual blocks or units are made of a set of stacked layers, where the inputs are added back to their outputs with the aim…

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Pietro Morerio , Jacopo Cavazza , Riccardo Volpi , Rene Vidal , Vittorio Murino

Residual neural networks (ResNets) are a promising class of deep neural networks that have shown excellent performance for a number of learning tasks, e.g., image classification and recognition. Mathematically, ResNet architectures can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 S. Günther , L. Ruthotto , J. B. Schroder , E. C. Cyr , N. R. Gauger

In recent years significant progress has been made in successfully training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on sequence learning problems involving long range temporal dependencies. The progress has been made on three fronts: (a)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Sachin S. Talathi , Aniket Vartak

An important problem in training deep networks with high capacity is to ensure that the trained network works well when presented with new inputs outside the training dataset. Dropout is an effective regularization technique to boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

Training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on long sequence tasks is plagued with difficulties arising from the exponential explosion or vanishing of signals as they propagate forward or backward through the network. Many techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Dar Gilboa , Bo Chang , Minmin Chen , Greg Yang , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Ed H. Chi , Jeffrey Pennington

Very deep convolutional neural networks offer excellent recognition results, yet their computational expense limits their impact for many real-world applications. We introduce BlockDrop, an approach that learns to dynamically choose which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zuxuan Wu , Tushar Nagarajan , Abhishek Kumar , Steven Rennie , Larry S. Davis , Kristen Grauman , Rogerio Feris

We introduce a general theoretical framework, designed for the study of gradient optimisation of deep neural networks, that encompasses ubiquitous architecture choices including batch normalisation, weight normalisation and skip…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lachlan Ewen MacDonald , Jack Valmadre , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

We propose to learn a fully-convolutional network model that consists of a Chain of Identity Mapping Modules and residual on the residual architecture for image denoising. Our network structure possesses three distinctive features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Saeed Anwar , Cong Phuoc Huynh , Fatih Porikli

To theoretically understand the behavior of trained deep neural networks, it is necessary to study the dynamics induced by gradient methods from a random initialization. However, the nonlinear and compositional structure of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Karl Hajjar , Lénaïc Chizat , Christophe Giraud

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accomplishments in practice. The success of these networks hinges on effective initialization methods, which are vital for ensuring stable and rapid convergence during training. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu Pan , Chaozheng Wang , Zekai Wu , Qifan Wang , Min Zhang , Zenglin Xu

Very deep convolutional neural networks introduced new problems like vanishing gradient and degradation. The recent successful contributions towards solving these problems are Residual and Highway Networks. These networks introduce skip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Anish Shah , Eashan Kadam , Hena Shah , Sameer Shinde , Sandip Shingade

The Wide Residual Networks (Wide-ResNets), a shallow but wide model variant of the Residual Networks (ResNets) by stacking a small number of residual blocks with large channel sizes, have demonstrated outstanding performance on multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Liang-Chieh Chen , Huiyu Wang , Siyuan Qiao

We introduce a novel approach for analyzing the training dynamics of ReLU networks by examining the characteristic activation boundaries of individual ReLU neurons. Our proposed analysis reveals a critical instability in common neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenlin Chen , Hong Ge

The Residual Network (ResNet), proposed in He et al. (2015), utilized shortcut connections to significantly reduce the difficulty of training, which resulted in great performance boosts in terms of both training and generalization error. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Sihan Li , Jiantao Jiao , Yanjun Han , Tsachy Weissman

The selection of initial parameter values for gradient-based optimization of deep neural networks is one of the most impactful hyperparameter choices in deep learning systems, affecting both convergence times and model performance. Yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Wei Hu , Lechao Xiao , Jeffrey Pennington