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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, training GNNs usually requires abundant task-specific labeled data, which is often arduously expensive to obtain. One effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ziniu Hu , Yuxiao Dong , Kuansan Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

Generative neural samplers are probabilistic models that implement sampling using feedforward neural networks: they take a random input vector and produce a sample from a probability distribution defined by the network weights. These models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-03 Sebastian Nowozin , Botond Cseke , Ryota Tomioka

Normalizing flows, diffusion normalizing flows and variational autoencoders are powerful generative models. This chapter provides a unified framework to handle these approaches via Markov chains. We consider stochastic normalizing flows as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Paul Hagemann , Johannes Hertrich , Gabriele Steidl

Training vision transformer networks on small datasets poses challenges. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance by leveraging their architectural inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

A practical limitation of deep neural networks is their high degree of specialization to a single task and visual domain. Recently, inspired by the successes of transfer learning, several authors have proposed to learn instead universal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

The inductive biases of trained neural networks are difficult to understand and, consequently, to adapt to new settings. We study the inductive biases of linearizations of neural networks, which we show to be surprisingly good summaries of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-29 Wesley J. Maddox , Shuai Tang , Pablo Garcia Moreno , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Andreas Damianou

Pre-training is essential to deep learning model performance, especially in medical image analysis tasks where limited training data are available. However, existing pre-training methods are inflexible as the pre-trained weights of one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fangxin Shang , Yehui Yang , Dalu Yang , Junde Wu , Xiaorong Wang , Yanwu Xu

In this paper, we present a general framework to scale graph autoencoders (AE) and graph variational autoencoders (VAE). This framework leverages graph degeneracy concepts to train models only from a dense subset of nodes instead of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Viet Anh Tran , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Out-of-distribution generalization of machine learning models remains challenging since the models are inherently bound to the training data distribution. This especially manifests, when the learned models rely on spurious correlations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Martin Surner , Abdelmajid Khelil , Ludwig Bothmann

We develop an approach to efficiently grow neural networks, within which parameterization and optimization strategies are designed by considering their effects on the training dynamics. Unlike existing growing methods, which follow simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Xin Yuan , Pedro Savarese , Michael Maire

The statistical properties of deep neural networks (DNNs) at initialization play an important role to comprehend their trainability and the intrinsic architectural biases they possess before data exposure Well established mean field (MF)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alberto Bassi , Marco Baity-Jesi , Aurelien Lucchi , Carlo Albert , Emanuele Francazi

Despite their renowned predictive power on i.i.d. data, convolutional neural networks are known to rely more on high-frequency patterns that humans deem superficial than on low-frequency patterns that agree better with intuitions about what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Haohan Wang , Songwei Ge , Eric P. Xing , Zachary C. Lipton

With the proliferation of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithms for mobile processing, limited precision quantization has become an essential tool for CNN efficiency. Consequently, various works have sought to design fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Stone Yun , Alexander Wong

Given an initial recognition model already trained on a set of base classes, the goal of this work is to develop a meta-model for few-shot learning. The meta-model, given as input some novel classes with few training examples per class,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

This paper investigates multilevel initialization strategies for training very deep neural networks with a layer-parallel multigrid solver. The scheme is based on the continuous interpretation of the training problem as a problem of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eric C. Cyr , Stefanie Günther , Jacob B. Schroder

Generative models (GMs) such as Generative Adversary Network (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have thrived these years and achieved high quality results in generating new samples. Especially in Computer Vision, GMs have been used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Honggang Zhou , Yunchun Li , Hailong Yang , Wei Li , Jie Jia

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inherently encode strong inductive biases, enabling effective generalization on small-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose integrating this inductive bias into ViTs, not through an architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

In this paper, we propose the nonlinearity generation method to speed up and stabilize the training of deep convolutional neural networks. The proposed method modifies a family of activation functions as nonlinearity generators (NGs). NGs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Yang Jiang , Zeyang Dou , Qun Hao , Jie Cao , Kun Gao , Xi Chen

Recent works have impressively demonstrated that there exists a subnetwork in randomly initialized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can match the performance of the fully trained dense networks at initialization, without any…