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A residual-networks family with hundreds or even thousands of layers dominates major image recognition tasks, but building a network by simply stacking residual blocks inevitably limits its optimization ability. This paper proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Ke Zhang , Miao Sun , Tony X. Han , Xingfang Yuan , Liru Guo , Tao Liu

Very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) yield state of the art results on a wide variety of visual recognition problems. A number of state of the the art methods for image recognition are based on networks with well over 100 layers…

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Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an improved version of ResNets. Our proposed improvements address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

One of the ways to train deep neural networks effectively is to use residual connections. Residual connections can be classified as being either identity connections or bridge-connections with a reshaping convolution. Empirical observations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Varshaneya V , Balasubramanian S , Darshan Gera

Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance, deep learning methods generally require a large amount of labeled data during training and may suffer from overfitting when the sample size is small. To ensure good generalizability of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Xiaoxu Li , Liyun Yu , Xiaochen Yang , Zhanyu Ma , Jing-Hao Xue , Jie Cao , Jun Guo

We propose a random convolutional neural network to generate a feature space in which we study image classification and retrieval performance. Put briefly we apply random convolutional blocks followed by global average pooling to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Yunzhe Xue , Usman Roshan

Various architectures (such as GoogLeNets, ResNets, and DenseNets) have been proposed. However, the existing networks usually suffer from either redundancy of convolutional layers or insufficient utilization of parameters. To handle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhen-Peng Bian , Junhui Hou , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

The trend towards increasingly deep neural networks has been driven by a general observation that increasing depth increases the performance of a network. Recently, however, evidence has been amassing that simply increasing depth may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Deep residual learning (ResNet) is a new method for training very deep neural networks using identity map-ping for shortcut connections. ResNet has won the ImageNet ILSVRC 2015 classification task, and achieved state-of-the-art performances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Yi Yao Huang , William Yang Wang

Residual connections are pivotal for deep neural networks, enabling greater depth by mitigating vanishing gradients. However, in standard residual updates, the module's output is directly added to the input stream. This can lead to updates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Giyeong Oh , Woohyun Cho , Siyeol Kim , Suhwan Choi , Youngjae Yu

Residual networks are the current state of the art on ImageNet. Similar work in the direction of utilizing shortcut connections has been done extremely recently with derivatives of residual networks and with highway networks. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Brian Chu , Daylen Yang , Ravi Tadinada

We propose a hardware efficient quantum residual neural network which implements residual connections through a deterministic mixture of the identity operation and variational unitaries, enabling fully differentiable training. In contrast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Amena Khatun , Akib Karim , Muhammad Usman

While Transformer models have achieved remarkable success in various domains, the effectiveness of information propagation through deep networks remains a critical challenge. Standard hidden state residuals often fail to adequately preserve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhanchao Zhou , Tianyi Wu , Zhiyun Jiang , Fares Obeid , Zhenzhong Lan

Residual connections significantly boost the performance of deep neural networks. However, there are few theoretical results that address the influence of residuals on the hypothesis complexity and the generalization ability of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-03 Fengxiang He , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

Sub-8-bit representation of DNNs incur some discernible loss of accuracy despite rigorous (re)training at low-precision. Such loss of accuracy essentially makes them equivalent to a much shallower counterpart, diminishing the power of being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Abhisek Kundu , Kunal Banerjee , Naveen Mellempudi , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Dipankar Das , Bharat Kaul , Pradeep Dubey

Residual connections remain ubiquitous in modern neural network architectures nearly a decade after their introduction. Their widespread adoption is often credited to their dramatically improved trainability: residual networks train faster,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Christian H. X. Ali Mehmeti-Göpel , Michael Wand

Federated learning enables cooperative training among massively distributed clients by sharing their learned local model parameters. However, with increasing model size, deploying federated learning requires a large communication bandwidth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Rui Song , Liguo Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

Contemporary wisdom based on empirical studies suggests that standard recurrent neural networks (RNNs) do not perform well on tasks requiring long-term memory. However, precise reasoning for this behavior is still unknown. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Melikasadat Emami , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Parthe Pandit , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

The training of deep residual neural networks (ResNets) with backpropagation has a memory cost that increases linearly with respect to the depth of the network. A way to circumvent this issue is to use reversible architectures. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Michael E. Sander , Pierre Ablin , Mathieu Blondel , Gabriel Peyré

Although humans perform well at predicting what exists beyond the boundaries of an image, deep models struggle to understand context and extrapolation through retained information. This task is known as image outpainting and involves…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Przemek Gardias , Eric Arthur , Huaming Sun