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PDE-based Group Convolutional Neural Networks (PDE-G-CNNs) use solvers of evolution PDEs as substitutes for the conventional components in G-CNNs. PDE-G-CNNs can offer several benefits simultaneously: fewer parameters, inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Gijs Bellaard , Sei Sakata , Bart M. N. Smets , Remco Duits

This paper establishes an approximation theorem for randomized neural networks (RaNNs) whose hidden-layer parameters are uniformly sampled from a prescribed bounded domain. Our analysis shows that, for RaNNs of the form $\mathop{\sum}_i W_i…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ran Bi , Weibing Deng

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is widely used in computer vision applications. In the networks that deal with images, CNNs are the most time-consuming layer of the networks. Usually, the solution to address the computation cost is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Meisam Rakhshanfar

Improving the efficiency of current neural networks and modeling them in biological neural systems have become popular research directions in recent years. Pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) is a well applicated model for imitating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haoran Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Peng Li , Jiahui Wu , Xin Jiang , Zhuo Zuo , Bingqi Liu

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the dominant and effective approach for general computer vision tasks. Recently, Kolmogorov-Arnold neural networks (KANs), based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhaoxiang Liu , Zhicheng Ma , Kaikai Zhao , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian

In addition to being extremely non-linear, modern problems require millions if not billions of parameters to solve or at least to get a good approximation of the solution, and neural networks are known to assimilate that complexity by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Habib Ben Abdallah , Christopher J. Henry , Sheela Ramanna

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of artificial neural networks widely used in computer vision tasks. Most CNNs achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. In addition to increasing the depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Junyi An , Fengshan Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely applied. But as the CNNs grow, the number of arithmetic operations and memory footprint also increase. Furthermore, typical non-linear activation functions do not allow associativity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Eduardo Vera Sousa , Leandro A. F. Fernandes , Cristina Nader Vasconcelos

This paper presents a novel adaptively connected neural network (ACNet) to improve the traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) {in} two aspects. First, ACNet employs a flexible way to switch global and local inference in processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Guangrun Wang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

XNet is a single-layer neural network architecture that leverages Cauchy integral-based activation functions for high-order function approximation. Through theoretical analysis, we show that the Cauchy activation functions used in XNet can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Xin Li , Xiaotao Zheng , Zhihong Xia

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most popular models of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)s in Computer Vision (CV). A variety of CNN-based structures were developed by researchers to solve problems like image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Bowen Qiu , Daniela Raicu , Jacob Furst , Roselyne Tchoua

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of neural networks that allow to efficiently perform inference on data that is associated to a graph structure, such as, e.g., citation networks or knowledge graphs. While several variants of GNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Simone Scardapane , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Danilo Comminiello , Aurelio Uncini

During the last decade, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the de facto standard for various Computer Vision and Machine Learning operations. CNNs are feed-forward Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-10 Serkan Kiranyaz , Onur Avci , Osama Abdeljaber , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj , Daniel J. Inman

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most significant networks in the deep learning field. Since CNN made impressive achievements in many areas, including but not limited to computer vision and natural language processing, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zewen Li , Wenjie Yang , Shouheng Peng , Fan Liu

Neural networks with ReLU activation function have been shown to be universal function approximators and learn function mapping as non-smooth functions. Recently, there is considerable interest in the use of neural networks in applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Parameswaran Sankaranarayanan , Raghunathan Rengaswamy

Recently, the authors of \cite{SYZ22} developed a neural network with width $36d(2d + 1)$ and depth $11$, which utilizes a special activation function called the elementary universal activation function, to achieve the super approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ayan Maiti , Michelle Michelle , Haizhao Yang

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are indispensable for modeling many physical phenomena and also commonly used for solving image processing tasks. In the latter area, PDE-based approaches interpret image data as discretizations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deep learning frameworks which are well-known for their notable performance in classification tasks. Hence, many skeleton-based action recognition and segmentation (SBARS) algorithms benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Babak Hosseini , Romain Montagne , Barbara Hammer

Classical image denoising methods utilize the non-local self-similarity principle to effectively recover image content from noisy images. Current state-of-the-art methods use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to effectively learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Junaid Malik , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

While deep neural networks take loose inspiration from neuroscience, it is an open question how seriously to take the analogies between artificial deep networks and biological neuronal systems. Interestingly, recent work has shown that deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-31 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox