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In this work, we propose activation functions for neuronal networks that are refinable and sum the identity. This new class of activation functions allows the insertion of new layers between existing ones and/or the increase of neurons in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Sergio López-Ureña

The mathematical complexity and high dimensionality of neural networks slow both training and deployment, demanding heavy computational resources. This has driven the search for alternative architectures built from novel components,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jake McNaughton , A. H. Abbas , Ivan S. Maksymov

The evaluation of partition functions is a central problem in statistical physics. For lattice systems and other discrete models the partition function may be expressed as the contraction of a tensor network. Unfortunately computing such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Adam S. Jermyn

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and their variants, such as Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks, and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks, have achieved promising performance in sequential data modeling. The hidden layers in RNNs can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yu Pan , Jing Xu , Maolin Wang , Jinmian Ye , Fei Wang , Kun Bai , Zenglin Xu

Tensor regression has attracted significant attention in statistical research. This study tackles the challenge of handling covariates with smooth varying structures. We introduce a novel framework, termed functional tensor regression,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-12 Tongyu Li , Fang Yao , Anru R. Zhang

Activation functions are crucial in deep learning models since they introduce non-linearity into the networks, allowing them to learn from errors and make adjustments, which is essential for learning complex patterns. The essential purpose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Koushik Biswas , Meghana Karri , Ulaş Bağcı

Recurrent neural networks have achieved great success in many NLP tasks. However, they have difficulty in parallelization because of the recurrent structure, so it takes much time to train RNNs. In this paper, we introduce sliced recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Zeping Yu , Gongshen Liu

We propose a novel extension to symmetrized neural network operators by incorporating fractional and mixed activation functions. This study addresses the limitations of existing models in approximating higher-order smooth functions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

Due to the limited number of bits in floating-point or fixed-point arithmetic, rounding is a necessary step in many computations. Although rounding methods can be tailored for different applications, round-off errors are generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Lu Xia , Martijn Anthonissen , Michiel Hochstenbach , Barry Koren

Recently, self-normalizing neural networks (SNNs) have been proposed with the intention to avoid batch or weight normalization. The key step in SNNs is to properly scale the exponential linear unit (referred to as SELU) to inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-30 G. Zhang , H. Li

The most scalable approaches to certifying neural network robustness depend on computing sound linear lower and upper bounds for the network's activation functions. Current approaches are limited in that the linear bounds must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Brandon Paulsen , Chao Wang

We place ourselves in a functional regression setting and propose a novel methodology for regressing a real output on vector-valued functional covariates. This methodology is based on the notion of signature, which is a representation of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-17 Adeline Fermanian

In this paper, we propose new learning algorithms for approximating high-dimensional functions using tree tensor networks in a least-squares setting. Given a dimension tree or architecture of the tensor network, we provide an algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Cécile Haberstich , Anthony Nouy , Guillaume Perrin

Spintronic devices have been widely studied for the hardware realization of artificial neurons. The stochastic switching of magnetic tunnel junction driven by the spin torque is commonly used to produce the sigmoid activation function.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yue Xin , Kang Zhou , Xuanyao Fong , Yumeng Yang , Shenghua Gao , Zhifeng Zhu

An activation function is a crucial component of a neural network that introduces non-linearity in the network. The state-of-the-art performance of a neural network depends also on the perfect choice of an activation function. We propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Koushik Biswas , Sandeep Kumar , Shilpak Banerjee , Ashish Kumar Pandey

In the current research of neural networks, the activation function is manually specified by human and not able to change themselves during training. This paper focus on how to make the activation function trainable for deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Zhaohe Liao

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a powerful tool for exploiting the low-rank nature of multiway data and has demonstrated great potential in a variety of important applications. In this paper, nonnegative tensor ring (NTR) decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yuyuan Yu , Guoxu Zhou , Ning Zheng , Shengli Xie , Qibin Zhao

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs), such as diffusion models [1], have faced high computational demands. Thus, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted lots of attention as energy-efficient neural networks. However, conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dayena Jeong , Jaewoo Park , Jeonghee Jo , Jongkil Park , Jaewook Kim , Hyun Jae Jang , Suyoun Lee , Seongsik Park

Activation function is a key component in deep learning that performs non-linear mappings between the inputs and outputs. Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) has been the most popular activation function across the deep learning community.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Hock Hung Chieng , Noorhaniza Wahid , Pauline Ong

Activation functions are crucial for deep neural networks. This novel work frames the problem of training neural network with learnable polynomial activation functions as a polynomial optimization problem, which is solvable by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Linghao Zhang , Jiawang Nie , Tingting Tang