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Implicit neural representations (INRs) have emerged as powerful tools for encoding signals, yet dominant MLP-based designs often suffer from slow convergence, overfitting to noise, and poor extrapolation. We introduce FUTON (Fourier Tensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Pooya Ashtari , Pourya Behmandpoor , Nikos Deligiannis , Aleksandra Pizurica

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated impressive results in various cognitive tasks such as object detection and image classification. In order to execute large networks, Von Neumann computers store the large number of weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Jaeyong Chung , Taehwan Shin , Yongshin Kang

The Transformer architecture has inarguably revolutionized deep learning, overtaking classical architectures like multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). At its core, the attention block differs in form and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Weronika Ormaniec , Felix Dangel , Sidak Pal Singh

Pretrained embeddings based on the Transformer architecture have taken the NLP community by storm. We show that they can mathematically be reframed as a sum of vector factors and showcase how to use this reframing to study the impact of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Timothee Mickus , Denis Paperno , Mathieu Constant

Implicit neural representations (INR) have gained significant popularity for signal and image representation for many end-tasks, such as superresolution, 3D modeling, and more. Most INR architectures rely on sinusoidal positional encoding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Rajhans Singh , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has gained increasing popularity as a data representation method, serving as a prerequisite for innovative generation models. Unlike gradient-based methods, which exhibit lower efficiency in inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shuyi Zhang , Ke Liu , Jingjun Gu , Xiaoxu Cai , Zhihua Wang , Jiajun Bu , Haishuai Wang

The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) decomposes waveforms propagating through optical fiber into nonlinear degrees of freedom, which are preserved during transmission. By encoding information on the nonlinear spectrum, a transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Jan-Willem Goossens , Hartmut Hafermann , Yves Jaouën

Since their introduction the Trasformer architectures emerged as the dominating architectures for both natural language processing and, more recently, computer vision applications. An intrinsic limitation of this family of "fully-attentive"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Carmelo Scribano , Giorgia Franchini , Marco Prato , Marko Bertogna

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

Density functional theory (DFT) offers a desirable balance between quantitative accuracy and computational efficiency in practical many-electron calculations. Its central component, the exchange-correlation energy functional, has been…

Recurrent Neural Networks have long been the dominating choice for sequence modeling. However, it severely suffers from two issues: impotent in capturing very long-term dependencies and unable to parallelize the sequential computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Zhiwei Wang , Yao Ma , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Group equivariant neural networks are used as building blocks of group invariant neural networks, which have been shown to improve generalisation performance and data efficiency through principled parameter sharing. Such works have mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Hutchinson , Charline Le Lan , Sheheryar Zaidi , Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Hyunjik Kim

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have gained success in various signal processing tasks due to their advantages of continuity and infinite resolution. However, the factors influencing their effectiveness and limitations remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linfei Li , Fengyi Zhang , Zhong Wang , Lin Zhang , Ying Shen

Invariance under symmetry is an important problem in machine learning. Our paper looks specifically at equivariant neural networks where transformations of inputs yield homomorphic transformations of outputs. Here, steerable CNNs have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daniel Franzen , Michael Wand

One of the most prominent attributes of Neural Networks (NNs) constitutes their capability of learning to extract robust and descriptive features from high dimensional data, like images. Hence, such an ability renders their exploitation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ioannis Kansizoglou , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

In recent years, deep neural networks have been applied to obtain high performance of prediction, classification, and pattern recognition. However, the weights in these deep neural networks are difficult to be explained. Although a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Chi-Hua Chen

Shift equivariance is a fundamental principle that governs how we perceive the world - our recognition of an object remains invariant with respect to shifts. Transformers have gained immense popularity due to their effectiveness in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Peijian Ding , Davit Soselia , Thomas Armstrong , Jiahao Su , Furong Huang

Transformer, the model of choice for natural language processing, has drawn scant attention from the medical imaging community. Given the ability to exploit long-term dependencies, transformers are promising to help atypical convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiansen Guo , Yinghao Zhang , Lequan Yu , Liansheng Wang , Yizhou Yu

Poor sample efficiency is a major limitation of deep reinforcement learning in many domains. This work presents an attention-based method to project neural network inputs into an efficient representation space that is invariant under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 John Mern , Dorsa Sadigh , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Any explicit functional representation $f$ of a density is hampered by two main obstacles when we wish to use it as a generative model: designing $f$ so that sampling is fast, and estimating $Z = \int f$ so that $Z^{-1}f$ integrates to 1.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Henry Li , Yuval Kluger