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At its core, Quantum Mechanics is a theory developed to describe fundamental observations in the spectroscopy of solids and gases. Despite these practical roots, however, quantum theory is infamous for being highly counterintuitive, largely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Emmanuel Flurin , Leigh S. Martin , Shay Hacohen-Gourgy , Irfan Siddiqi

Despite their success, modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exhibit fundamental limitations, including data inefficiency, poor out-of-distribution generalization, and vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. These shortcomings can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Brennen A. Hill , Zhang Xinyu , Timothy Putra Prasetio

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for biomedical image analysis are often of very large size, resulting in high memory requirement and high latency of operations. Searching for an acceptable compressed representation of the base CNN for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Suraj Mishra , Peixian Liang , Adam Czajka , Danny Z. Chen , X. Sharon Hu

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great capacity of modeling a dynamical system; nevertheless, they usually do not obey physics constraints such as conservation laws. This paper proposes a new learning framework named ConCerNet to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Wang Zhang , Tsui-Wei Weng , Subhro Das , Alexandre Megretski , Luca Daniel , Lam M. Nguyen

In this paper, we investigate a constrained formulation of neural networks where the output is a convex function of the input. We show that the convexity constraints can be enforced on both fully connected and convolutional layers, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sarath Sivaprasad , Ankur Singh , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

Traditionally, the vision community has devised algorithms to estimate the distance between an original image and images that have been subject to perturbations. Inspiration was usually taken from the human visual perceptual system and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alexander Hepburn , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo , Ryan McConville , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are key tools for graph representation learning, demonstrating strong results across diverse prediction tasks. In this paper, we present Convexified Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks (CGNNs), a novel and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Saar Cohen , Noa Agmon , Uri Shaham

Learning constraint networks is known to require a number of membership queries exponential in the number of variables. In this paper, we learn constraint networks by asking the user partial queries. That is, we ask the user to classify…

The presence of task constraints imposes a significant challenge to motion planning. Despite all recent advancements, existing algorithms are still computationally expensive for most planning problems. In this paper, we present Constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Austin Choe , Michael C. Yip

We introduce and analyze a novel quantum machine learning model motivated by convolutional neural networks. Our quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) makes use of only $O(\log(N))$ variational parameters for input sizes of $N$ qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Iris Cong , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

Deep convolutional neural networks have revolutionized many machine learning and computer vision tasks, however, some remaining key challenges limit their wider use. These challenges include improving the network's robustness to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Eldad Haber , Keegan Lensink , Eran Treister , Lars Ruthotto

We present a novel physics-informed deep learning framework for solving steady-state incompressible flow on multiple sets of irregular geometries by incorporating two main elements: using a point-cloud based neural network to capture…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-28 Ali Kashefi , Tapan Mukerji

3D Convolutional Neural Networks are sensitive to transformations applied to their input. This is a problem because a voxelized version of a 3D object, and its rotated clone, will look unrelated to each other after passing through to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Worrall , Gabriel Brostow

Incorporating prior knowledge or specifications of input-output relationships into machine learning models has attracted significant attention, as it enhances generalization from limited data and yields conforming outputs. However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Youngjae Min , Navid Azizan

We propose a new family of neural networks to predict the behaviors of physical systems by learning their underpinning constraints. A neural projection operator lies at the heart of our approach, composed of a lightweight network with an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Shuqi Yang , Xingzhe He , Bo Zhu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used for their ability to effectively approximate large classes of functions. This flexibility, however, makes the strict enforcement of constraints on DNNs an open problem. Here we present a framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Eric Marcus , Ray Sheombarsing , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently led to incredible breakthroughs on a variety of pattern recognition problems. Banks of finite impulse response filters are learned on a hierarchy of layers, each contributing more abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Felipe Petroski Such , Shagan Sah , Miguel Dominguez , Suhas Pillai , Chao Zhang , Andrew Michael , Nathan Cahill , Raymond Ptucha

Researchers are actively trying to gain better insights into the representational properties of convolutional neural networks for guiding better network designs and for interpreting a network's computational nature. Gaining such insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Andrew Hryniowski , Alexander Wong

We introduce Hyper Input Convex Neural Networks (HyCNNs), a novel neural network architecture designed for learning convex functions. HyCNNs combine the principles of Maxout networks with input convex neural networks (ICNNs) to create a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shayan Hundrieser , Insung Kong , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

Nonlinear Parametric Optimization Network (NLPOpt-Net) is an unsupervised learning architecture to solve constrained nonlinear programs (NLP). Given the structure of an NLP, it learns the parametric solution maps with guaranteed constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Bimol Nath Roy , Rahul Golder , MM Faruque Hasan