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This paper aims to devise an adaptive neural network basis method for numerically solving a second-order semilinear partial differential equation (PDE) with low-regular solutions in two/three dimensions. The method is obtained by combining…

Training deep neural networks for solving machine learning problems is one great challenge in the field, mainly due to its associated optimisation problem being highly non-convex. Recent developments have suggested that many training…

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently achieved remarkable successes in a number of applications. However, the huge sizes and computational burden of these models make it difficult for their deployment on edge devices. A practically…

Small satellite networks (SSNs), which are constructed by large number of small satellites in low earth orbits (LEO), are considered as promising ways to provide ubiquitous Internet access. To handle stochastic Internet traffic, on-board…

In this paper, we propose a stochastic Gauss-Newton (SGN) algorithm to study the online principal component analysis (OPCA) problem, which is formulated by using the symmetric low-rank product (SLRP) model for dominant eigenspace…

Single-hidden layer feed forward neural networks (SLFNs) are widely used in pattern classification problems, but a huge bottleneck encountered is the slow speed and poor performance of the traditional iterative gradient-based learning…

Unsupervised learning with generative adversarial networks (GANs) has proven hugely successful. Regular GANs hypothesize the discriminator as a classifier with the sigmoid cross entropy loss function. However, we found that this loss…

Recursive least squares (RLS) algorithms were once widely used for training small-scale neural networks, due to their fast convergence. However, previous RLS algorithms are unsuitable for training deep neural networks (DNNs), since they…

In this paper, we propose a graph neural network, DisGNet, for learning the graph distance matrix to address the forward kinematics problem of the Gough-Stewart platform. DisGNet employs the k-FWL algorithm for message-passing, providing…

We present a probabilistic framework for nonlinearities, based on doubly truncated Gaussian distributions. By setting the truncation points appropriately, we are able to generate various types of nonlinearities within a unified framework,…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are nowadays witnessing a major success in solving many pattern recognition tasks including skeleton-based classification. The deployment of DNNs on edge-devices, endowed with limited time and memory resources,…

We extend the well-known BFGS quasi-Newton method and its memory-limited variant LBFGS to the optimization of nonsmooth convex objectives. This is done in a rigorous fashion by generalizing three components of BFGS to subdifferentials: the…

We investigate quasi-Newton methods for minimizing a strictly convex quadratic function which is subject to errors in the evaluation of the gradients. The methods all give identical behavior in exact arithmetic, generating minimizers of…

Graph neural network (GNN) has shown convincing performance in learning powerful node representations that preserve both node attributes and graph structural information. However, many GNNs encounter problems in effectiveness and efficiency…

The classical iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) algorithm aims to recover an unknown signal from linear measurements by performing a sequence of weighted least squares problems, where the weights are recursively updated at each…

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method is a widely used approach for solving stochastic optimization problems, but its convergence is typically slow. Existing variance reduction techniques, such as SAGA, improve convergence by…

Inspired by Gauss-Newton-like methods, we study the benefit of leveraging the structure of deep learning objectives, namely, the composition of a convex loss function and of a nonlinear network, in order to derive better direction oracles…

We study the problem of estimating an unknown function from noisy data using shallow ReLU neural networks. The estimators we study minimize the sum of squared data-fitting errors plus a regularization term proportional to the squared…

In signal processing and data recovery, reconstructing a signal from quadratic measurements poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-dimensional settings where measurements $m$ is far less than the signal dimension $n$ (i.e., $m…

This article proposes a novel least-squares weak Galerkin (LS-WG) method for second-order elliptic equations in non-divergence form. The approach leverages a locally defined discrete weak Hessian operator constructed within the weak…