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This paper explores a simple question: can we model the internal transformations of a neural network using dynamical systems theory? We introduce Koopman autoencoders to capture how neural representations evolve through network layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Nishant Suresh Aswani , Saif Eddin Jabari

Identifying computational mechanisms for memorization and retrieval of data is a long-standing problem at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience. Our main finding is that standard overparameterized deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Mikhail Belkin , Caroline Uhler

The application of convolutional autoencoder deep learning to imaging data for planetary science and astrobiological use is briefly reviewed and explored with a focus on the need to understand algorithmic rationale, process, and results…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Caleb Scharf

One aim of dimensionality reduction is to discover the main factors that explain the data, and as such is paramount to many applications. When working with high dimensional data, autoencoders offer a simple yet effective approach to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Benjamin Couéraud , Vikram Sunkara , Christof Schütte

Autonomous driving has received a lot of attention in the automotive industry and is often seen as the future of transportation. Passenger vehicles equipped with a wide array of sensors (e.g., cameras, front-facing radars, LiDARs, and IMUs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Andrey Pak , Hemanth Manjunatha , Dimitar Filev , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Dimension reduction (DR) is commonly utilized to capture the intrinsic structure and transform high-dimensional data into low-dimensional space while retaining meaningful properties of the original data. It is used in various applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zelin Zang , Shenghui Cheng , Linyan Lu , Hanchen Xia , Liangyu Li , Yaoting Sun , Yongjie Xu , Lei Shang , Baigui Sun , Stan Z. Li

Ability of deep networks to extract high level features and of recurrent networks to perform time-series inference have been studied. In view of universality of one hidden layer network at approximating functions under weak constraints, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Sharat C. Prasad , Piyush Prasad

We propose to exploit {\em reconstruction} as a layer-local training signal for deep learning. Reconstructions can be propagated in a form of target propagation playing a role similar to back-propagation but helping to reduce the reliance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning using neural networks is an effective technique for generating models of complex data. However, training such models can be expensive when networks have large model capacity resulting from a large number of layers and nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jarom D. Hogue , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

There has been a lot of recent interest in designing neural network models to estimate a distribution from a set of examples. We introduce a simple modification for autoencoder neural networks that yields powerful generative models. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Mathieu Germain , Karol Gregor , Iain Murray , Hugo Larochelle

Deep learning in k-space has demonstrated great potential for image reconstruction from undersampled k-space data in fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, existing deep learning-based image reconstruction methods typically apply…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Tianming Du , Honggang Zhang , Yuemeng Li , Hee Kwon Song , Yong Fan

Autoencoders are composed of coding and decoding units, hence they hold the inherent potential of high-performance data compression and signal compressed sensing. The main disadvantages of current autoencoders comprise the following several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Honggui Li , Dimitri Galayko , Maria Trocan , Mohamad Sawan

Deep Learning models enjoy considerable success in Natural Language Processing. While deep architectures produce useful representations that lead to improvements in various tasks, they are often difficult to interpret. This makes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Christian Scheible , Hinrich Schuetze

Autoencoders have been proposed as a powerful tool for model-independent anomaly detection in high-energy physics. The operating principle is that events which do not belong to the space of training data will be reconstructed poorly, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-06 Joshua Batson , C. Grace Haaf , Yonatan Kahn , Daniel A. Roberts

In this work we investigate how to achieve equivariance to input transformations in deep networks, purely from data, without being given a model of those transformations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example, are equivariant to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jianbo Jiao , João F. Henriques

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence. While recent approaches achieve some degree of CL in deep neural networks, they either (1) grow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

Machine learning methods are commonly used to solve inverse problems, wherein an unknown signal must be estimated from few indirect measurements generated via a known acquisition procedure. In particular, neural networks perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hannah Laus , Suzanna Parkinson , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Felix Krahmer , Rebecca Willett

Deep neural networks, in particular convolutional neural networks, have become highly effective tools for compressing images and solving inverse problems including denoising, inpainting, and reconstruction from few and noisy measurements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reinhard Heckel , Paul Hand

Enhanced modeling of microlensing variations in light curves of strongly lensed quasars improves measurements of cosmological time delays, the Hubble Constant, and quasar structure. Traditional methods for modeling extra-galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Somayeh Khakpash , Federica Bianco , Georgios Vernardos , Gregory Dobler , Charles Keeton

Autoencoders are unsupervised deep learning models used for learning representations. In literature, autoencoders have shown to perform well on a variety of tasks spread across multiple domains, thereby establishing widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore