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We propose a general modeling and inference framework that composes probabilistic graphical models with deep learning methods and combines their respective strengths. Our model family augments graphical structure in latent variables with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-10 Matthew J. Johnson , David Duvenaud , Alexander B. Wiltschko , Sandeep R. Datta , Ryan P. Adams

Initialising the synaptic weights of artificial neural networks (ANNs) with orthogonal matrices is known to alleviate vanishing and exploding gradient problems. A major objection against such initialisation schemes is that they are deemed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Nikolay Manchev , Michael Spratling

In this work, we propose a data-driven scheme to initialize the parameters of a deep neural network. This is in contrast to traditional approaches which randomly initialize parameters by sampling from transformed standard distributions.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Debasmit Das , Yash Bhalgat , Fatih Porikli

Informed by the basic geometry underlying feed forward neural networks, we initialize the weights of the first layer of a neural network using the linear discriminants which best distinguish individual classes. Networks initialized in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Marissa Masden , Dev Sinha

Innovations in neural architectures have fostered significant breakthroughs in language modeling and computer vision. Unfortunately, novel architectures often result in challenging hyper-parameter choices and training instability if the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Chen Zhu , Renkun Ni , Zheng Xu , Kezhi Kong , W. Ronny Huang , Tom Goldstein

Beyond their origin in modeling many-body quantum systems, tensor networks have emerged as a promising class of models for solving machine learning problems, notably in unsupervised generative learning. While possessing many desirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Alex Meiburg , Jing Chen , Jacob Miller , Raphaëlle Tihon , Guillaume Rabusseau , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

The effectiveness of training neural networks directly impacts computational costs, resource allocation, and model development timelines in machine learning applications. An optimizer's ability to train the model adequately (in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Andriy Miranskyy , Adam Sorrenti , Viral Thakar

Deep graph generative modeling has proven capable of learning the distribution of complex, multi-scale structures characterizing real-world graphs. However, one of the main limitations of existing methods is their large output space, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nathaniel Diamant , Alex M. Tseng , Kangway V. Chuang , Tommaso Biancalani , Gabriele Scalia

Deep generative models are a class of techniques that train deep neural networks to model the distribution of training samples. Research has fragmented into various interconnected approaches, each of which make trade-offs including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sam Bond-Taylor , Adam Leach , Yang Long , Chris G. Willcocks

Most deep neural networks are trained under fixed network architectures and require retraining when the architecture changes. If expanding the network's size is needed, it is necessary to retrain from scratch, which is expensive. To avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Chau Pham , Piotr Teterwak , Soren Nelson , Bryan A. Plummer

Tensor networks have demonstrated significant value for machine learning in a myriad of different applications. However, optimizing tensor networks using standard gradient descent has proven to be difficult in practice. Tensor networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Fergus Barratt , James Dborin , Lewis Wright

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often suffer from performance degradation as the network depth increases. This paper addresses this issue by introducing initialization methods that enhance signal propagation (SP) within GNNs. We propose three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Senmiao Wang , Yupeng Chen , Yushun Zhang , Ruoyu Sun , Tian Ding

Nowadays, many modern applications require heterogeneous tabular data, which is still a challenging task in terms of regression and classification. Many approaches have been proposed to adapt neural networks for this task, but still,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Wolfgang Fuhl

This work investigates the ways in which deep learning methods can benefit from random projection (RP), a classic linear dimensionality reduction method. We focus on two areas where, as we have found, employing RP techniques can improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Piotr Iwo Wójcik

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are commonly used in semi-supervised settings. Previous research has primarily focused on finding appropriate graph filters (e.g. aggregation methods) to perform well on both homophilic and heterophilic graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Taewook Ko , Chong-Kwon Kim

In past few years, various initialization schemes have been proposed. These schemes are glorot initialization, He initialization, initialization using orthogonal matrix, random walk method for initialization. Some of these methods stress on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Vijay Pandey

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision, natural language processing, and other areas. However, training and fine-tuning a deep learning model is computationally intensive and time-consuming. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

The accelerating advancement of generative models has introduced new challenges for detecting AI-generated images, especially in real-world scenarios where novel generation techniques emerge rapidly. Existing learning paradigms are likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qinghui He , Haifeng Zhang , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Bin Xiao

Graph neural networks (GNNs), which propagate the node features through the edges and learn how to transform the aggregated features under label supervision, have achieved great success in supervised feature extraction for both node-level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-01 Yilin He , Chaojie Wang , Hao Zhang , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Ensembles over neural network weights trained from different random initialization, known as deep ensembles, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy and calibration. The recently introduced batch ensembles provide a drop-in replacement that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Florian Wenzel , Jasper Snoek , Dustin Tran , Rodolphe Jenatton