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Decompositions of tensors into factor matrices, which interact through a core tensor, have found numerous applications in signal processing and machine learning. A more general tensor model which represents data as an ordered network of…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) increase depth by stacking convolutional layers, and deeper network models perform better in image recognition. Empirical research shows that simply stacking convolutional layers does not make the network…
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have experienced significant attention and have become the de facto methods for learning graph representations. GCNs derive inspiration primarily from recent deep learning approaches,…
A convolutional layer in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) consists of many filters which apply convolution operation to the input, capture some special patterns and pass the result to the next layer. If the same patterns also occur at…
Deep learning generally suffers from enormous computational resources and time-consuming training processes. Broad Learning System (BLS) and its convolutional variants have been proposed to mitigate these issues and have achieved superb…
Dynamic convolution achieves better performance for efficient CNNs at the cost of negligible FLOPs increase. However, the performance increase can not match the significantly expanded number of parameters, which is the main bottleneck in…
When optimizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a specific image-based task, specialists commonly overshoot the number of convolutional layers in their designs. By implication, these CNNs are unnecessarily resource intensive to…
3D Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied to 3D scene understanding, such as video analysis and volumetric image recognition. However, 3D networks can easily lead to over-parameterization which incurs expensive…
Deep convolutional networks are well-known for their high computational and memory demands. Given limited resources, how does one design a network that balances its size, training time, and prediction accuracy? A surprisingly effective…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…
Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…
Shifted-and-Duplicated-Kernel (SDK) mapping has emerged as an effective strategy to accelerate convolutional layers on compute-in-memory (CIM) hardware. However, existing SDK variants (e.g., VWC-SDK) merely optimize mapping for a single CIM…
This paper investigates the usage of kernel functions at the different layers in a convolutional neural network. We carry out extensive studies of their impact on convolutional, pooling and fully-connected layers. We notice that the linear…
Computer vision often uses highly accurate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but these deep learning models are associated with ever-increasing energy and computation requirements. Producing more energy-efficient CNNs often requires…
Three dimensional convolutional neural networks (3DCNNs) have been applied in many tasks, e.g., video and 3D point cloud recognition. However, due to the higher dimension of convolutional kernels, the space complexity of 3DCNNs is generally…
Sparse tensors are prevalent in real-world applications, often characterized by their large-scale, high-order, and high-dimensional nature. Directly handling raw tensors is impractical due to the significant memory and computational…
When training deep neural networks, keeping all tensors in high precision (e.g., 32-bit or even 16-bit floats) is often wasteful. However, keeping all tensors in low precision (e.g., 8-bit floats) can lead to unacceptable accuracy loss.…
This work attempts to address two fundamental questions about the structure of the convolutional neural networks (CNN): 1) why a non-linear activation function is essential at the filter output of every convolutional layer? 2) what is the…
Recent literature has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large kernels outperform vision transformers (ViTs) and CNNs with stacked small kernels in many computer vision tasks, such as object detection and image…
Recently, deep learning methods such as the convolutional neural networks have gained prominence in the area of image denoising. This is owing to their proven ability to surpass state-of-the-art classical image denoising algorithms such as…