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What if deep neural networks can learn from sparsity-inducing priors? When the networks are designed by combining layer modules (CNN, RNN, etc), engineers less exploit the inductive bias, i.e., existing well-known rules or prior knowledge,…

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We perform an empirical study of the behaviour of deep networks when fully linearizing some of its feature channels through a sparsity prior on the overall number of nonlinear units in the network. In experiments on image classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Christian H. X. Ali Mehmeti-Göpel , Jan Disselhoff

Effectively scaling up deep reinforcement learning models has proven notoriously difficult due to network pathologies during training, motivating various targeted interventions such as periodic reset and architectural advances such as layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Guozheng Ma , Lu Li , Zilin Wang , Li Shen , Pierre-Luc Bacon , Dacheng Tao

Sparse neural networks are highly desirable in deep learning in reducing its complexity. The goal of this paper is to study how choices of regularization parameters influence the sparsity level of learned neural networks. We first derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lixin Shen , Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

Deep learning has been wildly successful in practice and most state-of-the-art machine learning methods are based on neural networks. Lacking, however, is a rigorous mathematical theory that adequately explains the amazing performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

Sparsification of neural networks is one of the effective complexity reduction methods to improve efficiency and generalizability. We consider the problem of learning a one hidden layer convolutional neural network with ReLU activation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Thu Dinh , Jack Xin

Generalization in deep neural networks remains only partially understood. Inspired by the stronger generalization tendency of biological systems, we explore the hypothesis that robust internal representations should remain effective across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haotian Wang

A recent line of work shows that a deep neural network with ReLU nonlinearities arises from a finite sequence of cascaded sparse coding models, the outputs of which, except for the last element in the cascade, are sparse and unobservable.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Demba Ba

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks. In this paper, we take a bottom-up signal processing perspective to this problem and show that a systematic exploitation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Deep neural networks' remarkable ability to correctly fit training data when optimized by gradient-based algorithms is yet to be fully understood. Recent theoretical results explain the convergence for ReLU networks that are wider than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Asaf Noy , Yi Xu , Yonathan Aflalo , Lihi Zelnik-Manor , Rong Jin

Although recent works have brought some insights into the performance improvement of techniques used in state-of-the-art deep-learning models, more work is needed to understand their generalization properties. We shed light on this matter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Mahsa Forouzesh , Farnood Salehi , Patrick Thiran

It is widely observed that deep learning models with learned parameters generalize well, even with much more model parameters than the number of training samples. We systematically investigate the underlying reasons why deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Weinan E

The success of deep neural networks is in part due to the use of normalization layers. Normalization layers like Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization and Weight Normalization are ubiquitous in practice, as they improve generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Yonatan Dukler , Quanquan Gu , Guido Montúfar

In many research fields in artificial intelligence, it has been shown that deep neural networks are useful to estimate unknown functions on high dimensional input spaces. However, their generalization performance is not yet completely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuya Nagayasu , Sumio Watanabe

We study training one-hidden-layer ReLU networks in the neural tangent kernel (NTK) regime, where the networks' biases are initialized to some constant rather than zero. We prove that under such initialization, the neural network will have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hongru Yang , Ziyu Jiang , Ruizhe Zhang , Yingbin Liang , Zhangyang Wang

In supervised learning, it is known that overparameterized neural networks with one hidden layer provably and efficiently learn and generalize, when trained using stochastic gradient descent with a sufficiently small learning rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Kulin Shah , Amit Deshpande , Navin Goyal

Overparameterized deep networks that generalize well have been key to the dramatic success of deep learning in recent years. The reasons for their remarkable ability to generalize are not well understood yet. When class labels in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Simran Ketha , Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy

Inspired by the robustness and efficiency of sparse representation in sparse coding based image restoration models, we investigate the sparsity of neurons in deep networks. Our method structurally enforces sparsity constraints upon hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yuchen Fan , Jiahui Yu , Yiqun Mei , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

It is well-known that modern neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To mitigate this problem, a series of robust learning algorithms have been proposed. However, although the robust training error can be near zero via some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Binghui Li , Jikai Jin , Han Zhong , John E. Hopcroft , Liwei Wang

A fundamental task for artificial intelligence is learning. Deep Neural Networks have proven to cope perfectly with all learning paradigms, i.e. supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, traditional deep learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Tiago Pinto , Selima Curci , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Damien Ernst , Zita A. Vale