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This paper shows that a long chain of perceptrons (that is, a multilayer perceptron, or MLP, with many hidden layers of width one) can be a universal classifier. The classification procedure is not necessarily computationally efficient, but…

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MLP-like models built entirely upon multi-layer perceptrons have recently been revisited, exhibiting the comparable performance with transformers. It is one of most promising architectures due to the excellent trade-off between network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kecheng Zheng , Yang Cao , Kai Zhu , Ruijing Zhao , Zheng-Jun Zha

In this work, we propose a balanced multi-component and multi-layer neural network (MMNN) structure to accurately and efficiently approximate functions with complex features, in terms of both degrees of freedom and computational cost. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shijun Zhang , Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong , Haomin Zhou

The attention mechanism has become a go-to technique for natural language processing and computer vision tasks. Recently, the MLP-Mixer and other MLP-based architectures, based simply on multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), are also powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Tian Lv , Chongyang Bai , Chaojie Wang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in visual tasks, yet their spatial understanding remains limited to single images, leaving them ill-suited for physical-world applications that require multi-frame reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Runsen Xu , Weiyao Wang , Hao Tang , Xingyu Chen , Xiaodong Wang , Fu-Jen Chu , Matt Feiszli , Kevin J. Liang

Classification and identification of the materials lying over or beneath the Earth's surface have long been a fundamental but challenging research topic in geoscience and remote sensing (RS) and have garnered a growing concern owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Naoto Yokoya , Jing Yao , Jocelyn Chanussot , Qian Du , Bing Zhang

Despite their simpler information fusion designs compared with Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks, Vision MLP architectures have demonstrated strong performance and high data efficiency in recent research. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jonathan Cui , David A. Araujo , Suman Saha , Md. Faisal Kabir

The pretrain-finetune paradigm is a classical pipeline in visual learning. Recent progress on unsupervised pretraining methods shows superior transfer performance to their supervised counterparts. This paper revisits this phenomenon and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yizhou Wang , Shixiang Tang , Feng Zhu , Lei Bai , Rui Zhao , Donglian Qi , Wanli Ouyang

A main task in condensed-matter physics is to recognize, classify, and characterize phases of matter and the corresponding phase transitions, for which machine learning provides a new class of research tools due to the remarkable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-17 Xiao-Qi Han , Sheng-Song Xu , Zhen Feng , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

As function approximators, deep neural networks have served as an effective tool to represent various signal types. Recent approaches utilize multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to learn a nonlinear mapping from a coordinate to its corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Woojin Cho , Minju Jo , Kookjin Lee , Noseong Park

Transformer-based language models exhibit complex and distributed behavior, yet their internal computations remain poorly understood. Existing mechanistic interpretability methods typically treat attention heads and multilayer perceptron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Areeb Ahmad , Abhinav Joshi , Ashutosh Modi

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in tasks like visual question answering and common sense reasoning, while visual perception models have made significant strides in perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Guanqun Wang , Xinyu Wei , Jiaming Liu , Ray Zhang , Yichi Zhang , Kevin Zhang , Maurice Chong , Shanghang Zhang

In-context learning (ICL), the remarkable ability to solve a task from only input exemplars, is often assumed to be a unique hallmark of Transformer models. By examining commonly employed synthetic ICL tasks, we demonstrate that multi-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 William L. Tong , Cengiz Pehlevan

Multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a class of networks composed of multiple layers of perceptrons, and it is essentially a mathematical function. Based on MLP, we develop a new numerical method to find the extrema of functionals. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Tao Liu

This paper proposes an innovative object detector by leveraging deep features learned in high-level layers. Compared with features produced in earlier layers, the deep features are better at expressing semantic and contextual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Wenchi Ma , Yuanwei Wu , Feng Cen , Guanghui Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are models that are utilized extensively for the hierarchical extraction of features. Vision transformers (ViTs), through the use of a self-attention mechanism, have recently achieved superior modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Danfeng Hong , Peter M Atkinson , Pedram Ghamisi

In order to achieve better performance for point cloud analysis, many researchers apply deeper neural networks using stacked Multi-Layer-Perceptron (MLP) convolutions over irregular point cloud. However, applying dense MLP convolutions over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Remarkable performance from Transformer networks in Natural Language Processing promote the development of these models in dealing with computer vision tasks such as image recognition and segmentation. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Qi Zhong , Xian-Feng Han

Token-mixing multi-layer perceptron (MLP) models have shown competitive performance in computer vision tasks with a simple architecture and relatively small computational cost. Their success in maintaining computation efficiency is mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi