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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with sparse input features have been widely used in recommender systems in industry. These models have large memory requirements and need a huge amount of training data. The large model size usually entails a…

We study approximation and statistical learning properties of deep ReLU networks under structural assumptions that mitigate the curse of dimensionality. We prove minimax-optimal uniform approximation rates for $s$-H\"older smooth functions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Thomas Nagler , Sophie Langer

Although deeper and larger neural networks have achieved better performance, the complex network structure and increasing computational cost cannot meet the demands of many resource-constrained applications. Existing methods usually choose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yingcheng Su , Shunfeng Zhou , Yichao Wu , Tian Su , Ding Liang , Jiaheng Liu , Dixin Zheng , Yingxu Wang , Junjie Yan , Xiaolin Hu

Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Pu Zhao , Siyue Wang , Cheng Gongye , Yanzhi Wang , Yunsi Fei , Xue Lin

Modern approaches to supervised learning like deep neural networks (DNNs) typically implicitly assume that observed responses are statistically independent. In contrast, correlated data are prevalent in real-life large-scale applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-30 Giora Simchoni , Saharon Rosset

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become increasingly popular and achieved outstanding performance in predictive tasks. However, the DNN framework itself cannot inform the user which features are more or less relevant for making the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-14 Xin Xing , Yu Gui , Chenguang Dai , Jun S. Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have played a key role in a wide range of machine learning applications. However, DNN classifiers are vulnerable to human-imperceptible adversarial perturbations, which can cause them to misclassify inputs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jeffrey Z. Pan , Nicholas Zufelt

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to create models for many complex analysis problems like image recognition and medical diagnosis. DNNs are a popular tool within machine learning due to their ability to model complex patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Parth Patil , Ben Boardley , Jack Gardner , Emily Loiselle , Deerajkumar Parthipan

In this paper, we present a strategy for training convolutional neural networks to effectively resolve interference arising from competing hypotheses relating to inter-categorical information throughout the network. The premise is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel in computer vision tasks, especially, few-shot learning (FSL), which is increasingly important for generalizing from limited examples. However, DNNs are computationally expensive with scalability issues in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Qi Xu , Junyang Zhu , Dongdong Zhou , Hao Chen , Yang Liu , Jiangrong Shen , Qiang Zhang

As one of most fascinating machine learning techniques, deep neural network (DNN) has demonstrated excellent performance in various intelligent tasks such as image classification. DNN achieves such performance, to a large extent, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Zihao Liu , Tao Liu , Wujie Wen , Lei Jiang , Jie Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Gang Quan

Activation functions influence behavior and performance of DNNs. Nonlinear activation functions, like Rectified Linear Units (ReLU), Exponential Linear Units (ELU) and Scaled Exponential Linear Units (SELU), outperform the linear…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Semeen Rehman , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

The exponential growth in the number of complex datasets every year requires more enhancement in machine learning methods to provide robust and accurate data classification. Lately, deep learning approaches have achieved surpassing results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Mojtaba Heidarysafa , Kamran Kowsari , Donald E. Brown , Kiana Jafari Meimandi , Laura E. Barnes

Feature selection is an important problem in high-dimensional data analysis and classification. Conventional feature selection approaches focus on detecting the features based on a redundancy criterion using learning and feature searching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Alex Pappachen James , Sima Dimitrijev

Input features play a crucial role in DNN-based recommender systems with thousands of categorical and continuous fields from users, items, contexts, and interactions. Noisy features and inappropriate embedding dimension assignments can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yao Yao , Bin Liu , Haoxun He , Dakui Sheng , Ke Wang , Li Xiao , Huanhuan Cao

Nowadays, we mainly use various convolution neural network (CNN) structures to extract features from radio data or spectrogram in AMR. Based on expert experience and spectrograms, they not only increase the difficulty of preprocessing, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Miao Du , Qin Yu , Shaomin Fei , Chen Wang , Xiaofeng Gong , Ruisen Luo

KNN is one of the most popular classification methods, but it often fails to work well with inappropriate choice of distance metric or due to the presence of numerous class-irrelevant features. Linear feature transformation methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-06-11 Martin Renqiang Min , David A. Stanley , Zineng Yuan , Anthony Bonner , Zhaolei Zhang

Feature ranking and selection is a widely used approach in various applications of supervised dimensionality reduction in discriminative machine learning. Nevertheless there exists significant evidence on feature ranking and selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ozan Ozdenizci , Deniz Erdogmus

This paper presents the concept of "model-based neural network"(MNN), which is inspired by the classic artificial neural network (ANN) but for different usages. Instead of being used as a data-driven classifier, a MNN serves as a modeling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Yi Jiang , Tianyi Zhang , Wei Zhang

Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches have been widely investigated and deployed in medical image analysis. For example, fully convolutional neural networks (FCN) achieve the state-of-the-art performance in several applications of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Ziyue Xu , Fausto Milletari , Ling Zhang , Daguang Xu