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Deep neural networks have recently drawn considerable attention to build and evaluate artificial learning models for perceptual tasks. Here, we present a study on the performance of the deep learning models to deal with global optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Soheila Ghambari , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brévilliers

Tackling simulation optimization problems with non-convex objective functions remains a fundamental challenge in operations research. In this paper, we propose a class of random search algorithms, called Regular Tree Search, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Du-Yi Wang , Guo Liang , Guangwu Liu , Kun Zhang

Imbalanced data with a skewed class distribution are common in many real-world applications. Deep Belief Network (DBN) is a machine learning technique that is effective in classification tasks. However, conventional DBN does not work well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Chong Zhang , Kay Chen Tan , Haizhou Li , Geok Soon Hong

The wireless network is undergoing a trend from "onnection of things" to "connection of intelligence". With data spread over the communication networks and computing capability enhanced on the devices, distributed learning becomes a hot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jian Wang , Yourui Huangfu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

Despite the highest classification accuracy in wide varieties of application areas, artificial neural network has one disadvantage. The way this Network comes to a decision is not easily comprehensible. The lack of explanation ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Tameru Hailesilassie

This paper introduces a novel type of memetic algorithm based Topology and Weight Evolving Artificial Neural Network (TWEANN) system called DX Neural Network (DXNN). DXNN implements a number of interesting features, amongst which is: a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Gene I. Sher

One obstacle that so far prevents the introduction of machine learning models primarily in critical areas is the lack of explainability. In this work, a practicable approach of gaining explainability of deep artificial neural networks (NN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Nina Schaaf , Marco F. Huber , Johannes Maucher

Reinforcement learning with stochastic optimal control offers a promising framework for diffusion fine-tuning, where a pre-trained diffusion model is optimized to generate paths that lead to a reward-tilted distribution. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sophia Tang , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Pranam Chatterjee

Deep neural networks are transforming fields ranging from computer vision to computational medicine, and we recently extended their application to the field of phase-change heat transfer by introducing theory-trained neural networks (TTNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 M. Torabi Rad , A. Viardin , M. Apel

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Neural networks and tree ensembles are state-of-the-art learners, each with its unique statistical and computational advantages. We aim to combine these advantages by introducing a new layer for neural networks, composed of an ensemble of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Hussein Hazimeh , Natalia Ponomareva , Petros Mol , Zhenyu Tan , Rahul Mazumder

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been introduced into the field of trajectory optimization to improve convergence and speed. Training such models requires large trajectory datasets. However, the convergence of low thrust (LT)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Ruida Xie , Andrew G. Dempster

Tree-based machine learning techniques, such as Decision Trees and Random Forests, are top performers in several domains as they do well with limited training datasets and offer improved interpretability compared to Deep Neural Networks…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Giacomo Pedretti , Catherine E. Graves , Can Li , Sergey Serebryakov , Xia Sheng , Martin Foltin , Ruibin Mao , John Paul Strachan

The ability to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with constraints is instrumental in improving the fairness of modern machine-learning models. Many algorithms have been analysed in recent years, and yet there is no standard, widely accepted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Andrii Kliachkin , Jana Lepšová , Gilles Bareilles , Jakub Mareček

Modern deep neural networks have a large number of parameters, making them very hard to train. We propose DSD, a dense-sparse-dense training flow, for regularizing deep neural networks and achieving better optimization performance. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Song Han , Jeff Pool , Sharan Narang , Huizi Mao , Enhao Gong , Shijian Tang , Erich Elsen , Peter Vajda , Manohar Paluri , John Tran , Bryan Catanzaro , William J. Dally

Deep learning has been extended to a number of new domains with critical success, though some traditional orienteering problems such as the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and its variants are not commonly solved using such techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wei Shao , Flora D. Salim , Jeffrey Chan , Sean Morrison , Fabio Zambetta

Neural-based multi-task learning (MTL) has gained significant improvement, and it has been successfully applied to recommendation system (RS). Recent deep MTL methods for RS (e.g. MMoE, PLE) focus on designing soft gating-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qi Liu , Zhilong Zhou , Gangwei Jiang , Tiezheng Ge , Defu Lian

Time series forecasting poses significant challenges in non-stationary environments where underlying patterns evolve over time. In this work, we propose a novel framework that enhances deep neural network (DNN) performance by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Amal Saadallah , Abdulaziz Al-Ademi

Large neural networks are typically trained for a fixed computational budget, creating a rigid trade-off between performance and efficiency that is ill-suited for deployment in resource-constrained or dynamic environments. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Paulius Rauba , Mihaela van der Schaar