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Deep neural network architectures have recently produced excellent results in a variety of areas in artificial intelligence and visual recognition, well surpassing traditional shallow architectures trained using hand-designed features. The…
Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are emerging as a key alternative to computationally expensive CFD simulations. However, state-of-the-art DL approaches require large and high-resolution training data to learn accurate models. The size and…
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Power-law scaling, a central concept in critical phenomena, is found to be useful in deep learning, where optimized test errors on handwritten digit examples converge as a power-law to zero with database size. For rapid decision making with…
Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in pattern recognition, deep network models face the problem of training a large number of parameters. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel multi-path wavelet neural network…
Deep learning network training is usually computationally expensive and intuitively complex. We present a novel network architecture for custom training and weight evaluations. We reformulate the layers as ResNet-similar blocks with certain…
We present techniques for speeding up the test-time evaluation of large convolutional networks, designed for object recognition tasks. These models deliver impressive accuracy but each image evaluation requires millions of floating point…