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Hypernetworks, or hypernets for short, are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network, known as the target network. They have emerged as a powerful deep learning technique that allows for greater flexibility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Jiandong Zhou , Ping Lu , Soheila Molaei , David A. Clifton

Residual networks (ResNet) and weight normalization play an important role in various deep learning applications. However, parameter initialization strategies have not been studied previously for weight normalized networks and, in practice,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-31 Devansh Arpit , Victor Campos , Yoshua Bengio

This work explores hypernetworks: an approach of using a one network, also known as a hypernetwork, to generate the weights for another network. Hypernetworks provide an abstraction that is similar to what is found in nature: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 David Ha , Andrew Dai , Quoc V. Le

Deep neural networks (DNNs) form the backbone of almost every state-of-the-art technique in the fields such as computer vision, speech processing, and text analysis. The recent advances in computational technology have made the use of DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Saiprasad Koturwar , Shabbir Merchant

The proper initialization of weights is crucial for the effective training and fast convergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). Prior work in this area has mostly focused on balancing the variance among weights per layer to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Maciej Skorski , Alessandro Temperoni , Martin Theobald

Weight initialization is important for faster convergence and stability of deep neural networks training. In this paper, a robust initialization method is developed to address the training instability in long short-term memory (LSTM)…

Weight initialization plays an important role in neural network training. Widely used initialization methods are proposed and evaluated for networks that are trained from scratch. However, the growing number of pretrained models now offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhiqiu Xu , Yanjie Chen , Kirill Vishniakov , Yida Yin , Zhiqiang Shen , Trevor Darrell , Lingjie Liu , Zhuang Liu

Hypernetworks are neural networks that generate weights for another neural network. We formulate the hypernetwork training objective as a compromise between accuracy and diversity, where the diversity takes into account trivial symmetry…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-10 Lior Deutsch

Input-Convex Neural Networks (ICNNs) are networks that guarantee convexity in their input-output mapping. These networks have been successfully applied for energy-based modelling, optimal transport problems and learning invariances. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Pieter-Jan Hoedt , Günter Klambauer

Neural network-based function approximation plays a pivotal role in the advancement of scientific computing and machine learning. Yet, training such models faces several challenges: (i) each target function often requires training a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xinwen Hu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

Traditional initialisation methods, e.g. He and Xavier, have been effective in avoiding the problem of vanishing or exploding gradients in neural networks. However, they only use simple pointwise distributions, which model one-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Christian Harder , Moritz Fuchs , Yuri Tolkach , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

The growing interest in satellite imagery has triggered the need for efficient mechanisms to extract valuable information from these vast data sources, providing deeper insights. Even though deep learning has shown significant progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wadii Boulila , Eman Alshanqiti , Ayyub Alzahem , Anis Koubaa , Nabil Mlaiki

Appropriate weight initialization has been of key importance to successfully train neural networks. Recently, batch normalization has diminished the role of weight initialization by simply normalizing each layer based on batch statistics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Pedro Hermosilla , Michael Schelling , Tobias Ritschel , Timo Ropinski

During the last decade, several research works have focused on providing novel deep learning methods in many application fields. However, few of them have investigated the weight initialization process for deep learning, although its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Wadii Boulila , Maha Driss , Mohamed Al-Sarem , Faisal Saeed , Moez Krichen

As a neural network's depth increases, it can improve generalization performance. However, training deep networks is challenging due to gradient and signal propagation issues. To address these challenges, extensive theoretical research and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hyunwoo Lee , Hayoung Choi , Hyunju Kim

Residual Network (ResNet) is the state-of-the-art architecture that realizes successful training of really deep neural network. It is also known that good weight initialization of neural network avoids problem of vanishing/exploding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Masato Taki

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

A proper initialization of the weights in a neural network is critical to its convergence. Current insights into weight initialization come primarily from linear activation functions. In this paper, I develop a theory for weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Siddharth Krishna Kumar

Deep learning relies on good initialization schemes and hyperparameter choices prior to training a neural network. Random weight initializations induce random network ensembles, which give rise to the trainability, training speed, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-25 Rebekka Burkholz , Alina Dubatovka

Initializing the weights and the biases is a key part of the training process of a neural network. Unlike the subsequent optimization phase, however, the initialization phase has gained only limited attention in the literature. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Ingo Steinwart
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