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Recently, the deep neural network (derived from the artificial neural network) has attracted many researchers' attention by its outstanding performance. However, since this network requires high-performance GPUs and large storage, it is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Song Wang , Dongchun Ren , Li Chen , Wei Fan , Jun Sun , Satoshi Naoi

In this paper, we present a novel approach for initializing deep neural networks, i.e., by turning PCA into neural layers. Usually, the initialization of the weights of a deep neural network is done in one of the three following ways: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Mathias Seuret , Michele Alberti , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are prominent in handling sparse and unstructured data efficiently and effectively. Specifically, GNNs were shown to be highly effective for node classification tasks, where labelled information is available for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Sinusoidal neural networks have been shown effective as implicit neural representations (INRs) of low-dimensional signals, due to their smoothness and high representation capacity. However, initializing and training them remain empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tiago Novello , Diana Aldana , Andre Araujo , Luiz Velho

Weight initialization plays a crucial role in the optimization behavior and convergence efficiency of neural networks. Most existing initialization methods, such as Xavier and Kaiming initializations, rely on random sampling and do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Data in tabular format is frequently occurring in real-world applications. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been extended to effectively handle such data, allowing feature interactions to be captured through representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Amr Alkhatib , Sofiane Ennadir , Henrik Boström , Michalis Vazirgiannis

An old idea in optimization theory says that since the gradient is a dual vector it may not be subtracted from the weights without first being mapped to the primal space where the weights reside. We take this idea seriously in this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jeremy Bernstein , Laker Newhouse

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Deep neural network models, though very powerful and highly successful, are computationally expensive in terms of space and time. Recently, there have been a number of attempts on binarizing the network weights and activations. This greatly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Lu Hou , Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

Large amount of data is often required to train and deploy useful machine learning models in industry. Smaller enterprises do not have the luxury of accessing enough data for machine learning, For privacy sensitive fields such as banking,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Felix Ongati , Eng. Lawrence Muchemi

We provide novel guaranteed approaches for training feedforward neural networks with sparse connectivity. We leverage on the techniques developed previously for learning linear networks and show that they can also be effectively adopted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

Knowledge embedded in the weights of the artificial neural network can be used to improve the network structure, such as in network compression. However, the knowledge is set up by hand, which may not be very accurate, and relevant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mengqiao Han , Xiabi Liu , Zhaoyang Hai , Xin Duan

This work provides an additional step in the theoretical understanding of neural networks. We consider neural networks with one hidden layer and show that when learning symmetric functions, one can choose initial conditions so that standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ido Nachum , Amir Yehudayoff

Document structure analysis, such as zone segmentation and table recognition, is a complex problem in document processing and is an active area of research. The recent success of deep learning in solving various computer vision and machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Hassan Mahmood , Faisal Shafait

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Despite the increasing prevalence of deep neural networks, their applicability in resource-constrained devices is limited due to their computational load. While modern devices exhibit a high level of parallelism, real-time latency is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Amir Ben Dror , Niv Zehngut , Avraham Raviv , Evgeny Artyomov , Ran Vitek , Roy Jevnisek

In this short note, we propose a new method for quantizing the weights of a fully trained neural network. A simple deterministic pre-processing step allows us to quantize network layers via memoryless scalar quantization while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Johannes Maly , Rayan Saab

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