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The sizes of deep neural networks (DNNs) are rapidly outgrowing the capacity of hardware to store and train them. Research over the past few decades has explored the prospect of sparsifying DNNs before, during, and after training by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ryan A. Robinett , Jeremy Kepner

This paper introduces deep neural networks (DNNs) as add-on blocks to baseline feedback control systems to enhance tracking performance of arbitrary desired trajectories. The DNNs are trained to adapt the reference signals to the feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Siqi Zhou , Mohamed K. Helwa , Angela P. Schoellig

Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) is an approach designed to reduce the computational cost of MPC. In this paper, a constrained deep neural network (DNN) design is proposed to learn MPC policy for nonlinear systems. Using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Farshid Asadi

The practical utility of machine learning models in the sciences often hinges on their interpretability. It is common to assess a model's merit for scientific discovery, and thus novel insights, by how well it aligns with already available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Intekhab Hossain , Jonas Fischer , Rebekka Burkholz , John Quackenbush

Accurate motion control in the face of disturbances within complex environments remains a major challenge in robotics. Classical model-based approaches often struggle with nonlinearities and unstructured disturbances, while RL-based methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Gao , Chao Yu , Yu Wang , Yi Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have great potential to solve many real-world problems, but they usually require an extensive amount of computation and memory. It is of great difficulty to deploy a large DNN model to a single resource-limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Minghai Qin , Chao Sun , Jaco Hofmann , Dejan Vucinic

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as image recognition, they often struggle with generalization, learning from few examples, and continuous adaptation - abilities inherent in biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Patrick Inoue , Florian Röhrbein , Andreas Knoblauch

The success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) highly depends on data quality. Moreover, predictive uncertainty makes high performing DNNs risky for real-world deployment. In this paper, we aim to address these two issues by proposing a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Krishanu Sarker , Xiulong Yang , Yang Li , Saeid Belkasim , Shihao Ji

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

Prevailing deep models are single-purpose and overspecialize at individual tasks. However, when being extended to new tasks, they typically forget previously learned skills and learn from scratch. We address this issue by introducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Fan Zhang , Duyu Tang , Yong Dai , Cong Zhou , Shuangzhi Wu , Shuming Shi

Deep learning has been the engine powering many successes of data science. However, the deep neural network (DNN), as the basic model of deep learning, is often excessively over-parameterized, causing many difficulties in training,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Yan Sun , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

Sparse regression on a library of candidate features has developed as the prime method to discover the partial differential equation underlying a spatio-temporal data-set. These features consist of higher order derivatives, limiting model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Gert-Jan Both , Gijs Vermarien , Remy Kusters

This paper presents a dynamic network rewiring (DNR) method to generate pruned deep neural network (DNN) models that are robust against adversarial attacks yet maintain high accuracy on clean images. In particular, the disclosed DNR method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Souvik Kundu , Mahdi Nazemi , Peter A. Beerel , Massoud Pedram

In deep learning, dense layer connectivity has become a key design principle in deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling efficient information flow and strong performance across a range of applications. In this work, we model densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jinshu Huang , Haibin Su , Xue-Cheng Tai , Chunlin Wu

Identifying the structural priors that enable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to overcome the curse of dimensionality is a fundamental challenge in machine learning theory. Existing literature suggests that effective high-dimensional learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Lin , Antonio Briola , Yuanrong Wang , Tomaso Aste

In scanning microscopy based imaging techniques, there is a need to develop novel data acquisition schemes that can reduce the time for data acquisition and minimize sample exposure to the probing radiation. Sparse sampling schemes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-09 Yan Zhang , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Nicola Ferrier , Emine B. Gulsoy , Charles A. Bouman , Charudatta Phatak

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices requires strong compression with minimal accuracy loss. This paper introduces Mix-and-Match Pruning, a globally guided, layer-wise sparsification framework that leverages sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Danial Monachan , Samira Nazari , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Azarpeyvand , Milos Krstic , Michael Huebner , Christian Herglotz

The accuracy and fidelity of deformation simulations are highly dependent upon the underlying constitutive material model. Commonly used linear or nonlinear constitutive material models only cover a tiny part of possible material behavior.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Bin Wang , Paul Kry , Yuanmin Deng , Uri Ascher , Hui Huang , Baoquan Chen

Observational studies are based on accurate assessment of human state. A behavior recognition system that models interlocutors' state in real-time can significantly aid the mental health domain. However, behavior recognition from speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Haoqi Li , Brian Baucom , Panayiotis Georgiou

In this study, the problem of computing a sparse representation of multi-dimensional visual data is considered. In general, such data e.g., hyperspectral images, color images or video data consists of signals that exhibit strong local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Alexandros Gkillas , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Kostas Berberidis