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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has recently achieved significant advances in various domains. However, explaining the policy of RL agents still remains an open problem due to several factors, one being the complexity of explaining neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zihan Ding , Pablo Hernandez-Leal , Gavin Weiguang Ding , Changjian Li , Ruitong Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied to solve real-world regression problems. However, selecting optimal network structures remains a significant challenge. This study addresses this issue by linking neuron selection in DNNs…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-30 Noah Yi-Ting Hung , Li-Hsiang Lin , Vince D. Calhoun

This paper investigates efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) to replace dense unstructured weight matrices with structured ones that possess desired properties. The challenge arises because the optimal weight matrix structure in popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Changwoo Lee , Hun-Seok Kim

With the increasing amount of available data and advances in computing capabilities, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully employed to solve challenging tasks in various areas, including healthcare, climate, and finance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Marcele O. K. Mendonça , Javier Maroto , Pascal Frossard , Paulo S. R. Diniz

Most conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches are limited in that they only generate architectures without searching for the optimal parameters. While some NAS methods handle this issue by utilizing a supernet trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wonyong Jeong , Hayeon Lee , Gun Park , Eunyoung Hyung , Jinheon Baek , Sung Ju Hwang

Retrieving relevant targets from an extremely large target set under computational limits is a common challenge for information retrieval and recommendation systems. Tree models, which formulate targets as leaves of a tree with trainable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Jingwei Zhuo , Ziru Xu , Wei Dai , Han Zhu , Han Li , Jian Xu , Kun Gai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in solving different tasks in various fields. However, the conventional DNN model is steadily approaching the ground-truth value through loss backpropagation. In some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dou Huang , Haoran Zhang , Xuan Song , Ryosuke Shibasaki

The ability to design complex neural network architectures which enable effective training by stochastic gradient descent has been the key for many achievements in the field of deep learning. However, developing such architectures remains a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Marcus Märtens , Dario Izzo

Tree Search (TS) is crucial to some of the most influential successes in reinforcement learning. Here, we tackle two major challenges with TS that limit its usability: \textit{distribution shift} and \textit{scalability}. We first discover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Assaf Hallak , Gal Dalal , Steven Dalton , Iuri Frosio , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik

A convenient approach to optimally solving combinatorial optimization tasks is the Branch-and-Bound method. Its branching heuristic can be learned to solve a large set of similar tasks. The promising results here are achieved by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 D. Sorokin , A. Kostin , L. Savchenko , G. Gusev , A. V. Savchenko

Neural networks (NNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both popular models of machine learning, yet coming with mutually exclusive advantages and limitations. To bring the best of the two worlds, a variety of approaches are proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haoling Li , Jie Song , Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jingwen Ye , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

Deep Learning has a hierarchical network architecture to represent the complicated feature of input patterns. The adaptive structural learning method of Deep Belief Network (DBN) has been developed. The method can discover an optimal number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura , Toshihide Harada

Building robust online content recommendation systems requires learning complex interactions between user preferences and content features. The field has evolved rapidly in recent years from traditional multi-arm bandit and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yoel Zeldes , Stavros Theodorakis , Efrat Solodnik , Aviv Rotman , Gil Chamiel , Dan Friedman

Tree search has recently emerged as a powerful framework for aligning generative models with task-specific rewards at test time. Applying tree search to Masked Diffusion Language Models, however, introduces two key challenges: (i) parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zichao Yu , Ming Li , Wenyi Zhang , Weiguo Gao

Domain adaptation aims at training a classifier in one dataset and applying it to a related but not identical dataset. One successfully used framework of domain adaptation is to learn a transformation to match both the distribution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Xu Zhang , Felix Xinnan Yu , Shih-Fu Chang , Shengjin Wang

Learning effective feature crosses is the key behind building recommender systems. However, the sparse and large feature space requires exhaustive search to identify effective crosses. Deep & Cross Network (DCN) was proposed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ruoxi Wang , Rakesh Shivanna , Derek Z. Cheng , Sagar Jain , Dong Lin , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

The optimal solution to an optimization problem depends on the problem's objective function, constraints, and size. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven effective in solving optimization problems, changes in the problem's size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nikos A. Mitsiou , Pavlos S. Bouzinis , Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis , George K. Karagiannidis

Deep neural networks (DNN) are the state of the art on many engineering problems such as computer vision and audition. A key factor in the success of the DNN is scalability - bigger networks work better. However, the reason for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Andrew J. R. Simpson

This paper proposes a tree-based convolutional neural network (TBCNN) for discriminative sentence modeling. Our models leverage either constituency trees or dependency trees of sentences. The tree-based convolution process extracts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Lili Mou , Hao Peng , Ge Li , Yan Xu , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

Differentiable neural architecture search methods became popular in recent years, mainly due to their low search costs and flexibility in designing the search space. However, these methods suffer the difficulty in optimizing network, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Yuhui Xu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Bowen Shi , Qi Tian , Hongkai Xiong