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Since their first applications, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have solved problems that have advanced the state-of-the-art in several domains. CNNs represent information using real numbers. Despite encouraging results, theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gerardo Altamirano-Gomez , Carlos Gershenson

Previous works proved that the combination of the linear neuron network with nonlinear activation functions (e.g. ReLu) can achieve nonlinear function approximation. However, simply widening or deepening the network structure will introduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zirui Xu , Jinjun Xiong , Fuxun Yu , Xiang Chen

We have developed a novel activation function, named the Cauchy Activation Function. This function is derived from the Cauchy Integral Theorem in complex analysis and is specifically tailored for problems requiring high precision. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Xin Li , Zhihong Xia , Hongkun Zhang

Pan-sharpening is a fundamental and significant task in the field of remote sensing imagery processing, in which high-resolution spatial details from panchromatic images are employed to enhance the spatial resolution of multi-spectral (MS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Qiangqiang Yuan , Yancong Wei , Xiangchao Meng , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

Feed-forward convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are currently state-of-the-art for object classification tasks such as ImageNet. Further, they are quantitatively accurate models of temporally-averaged responses of neurons in the primate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Aran Nayebi , Daniel Bear , Jonas Kubilius , Kohitij Kar , Surya Ganguli , David Sussillo , James J. DiCarlo , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) are popular methods for function approximation due to their flexibility and expressivity. However, they typically require a large number of trainable parameters to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zachary Morrow , Michael Penwarden , Brian Chen , Aurya Javeed , Akil Narayan , John D. Jakeman

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), inspired by the interconnection of real neurons, have achieved unprecedented success in various fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, a novel mathematical ANN model,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yu Ding , Jun Yu , Chunzhi Gu , Shangce Gao , Chao Zhang

This study examined the viability of enhancing the prediction accuracy of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in image classification tasks by developing ANNs with evolution patterns similar to those of biological neural networks. ResNet is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Ziyuan Huang , Mark Newman , Maria Vaida , Srikar Bellur , Roozbeh Sadeghian , Andrew Siu , Hui Wang , Kevin Huggins

We show that neural networks with access to randomness can outperform deterministic networks by using amplification. We call such networks Coin-Flipping Neural Networks, or CFNNs. We show that a CFNN can approximate the indicator of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuval Sieradzki , Nitzan Hodos , Gal Yehuda , Assaf Schuster

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Standard neural network architectures employ fixed activation functions (ReLU, tanh, sigmoid) that are poorly suited for approximating functions with singular or fractional power behavior, a structure that arises ubiquitously in physics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gnankan Landry Regis N'guessan

This paper proposes a new neural network architecture by introducing an additional dimension called height beyond width and depth. Neural network architectures with height, width, and depth as hyper-parameters are called three-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zuowei Shen , Haizhao Yang , Shijun Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art in supervised learning vision tasks. Their convolutional filters are of paramount importance for they allow to learn patterns while disregarding their locations in input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jean-Charles Vialatte , Vincent Gripon , Grégoire Mercier

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the potential of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) in comparison to classical Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Artificial / Classical Neural Network (ANN) models. With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Gowri Namratha Meedinti , Kandukuri Sai Srirekha , Radhakrishnan Delhibabu

Porting state of the art deep learning algorithms to resource constrained compute platforms (e.g. VR, AR, wearables) is extremely challenging. We propose a fast, compact, and accurate model for convolutional neural networks that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Hessam Bagherinezhad , Mohammad Rastegari , Ali Farhadi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were inspired by early findings in the study of biological vision. They have since become successful tools in computer vision and state-of-the-art models of both neural activity and behavior on visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-11 Grace W. Lindsay

The dominant paradigm for learning on graph-structured data is message passing. Despite being a strong inductive bias, the local message passing mechanism suffers from pathological issues such as over-smoothing, over-squashing, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jacob Bamberger , Federico Barbero , Xiaowen Dong , Michael M. Bronstein

This paper introduces an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of automating various topology optimization (TO) problems with diverse underlying physics. The proposed architecture has an encoder-decoder-type…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

Representations of multivariate functions with low-dimensional functions that depend on subsets of original coordinates (corresponding of different orders of coupling) are useful in quantum dynamics and other applications, especially where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sergei Manzhos , Manabu Ihara