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We introduce the Rule Network with Selective Logical Operators (RNS), a novel neural architecture that employs \textbf{selective logical operators} to adaptively choose between AND and OR operations at each neuron during training. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Bowen Wei , Ziwei Zhu

Graph neural networks have become a staple in problems addressing learning and analysis of data defined over graphs. However, several results suggest an inherent difficulty in extracting better performance by increasing the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

In complex systems, we often observe complex global behavior emerge from a collection of agents interacting with each other in their environment, with each individual agent acting only on locally available information, without knowing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yujin Tang , David Ha

Deep continual learning requires models to adapt to new tasks without retraining from scratch. However, neural networks can lose their ability to adapt to new tasks after training on previous ones, a phenomenon known as loss of plasticity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiuqi Wang , Jayanth Srinivasa , Claire Chen , Shuze Daniel Liu , Ali Payani , Shangtong Zhang

In spite of finite dimension ReLU neural networks being a consistent factor behind recent deep learning successes, a theory of feature learning in these models remains elusive. Currently, insightful theories still rely on assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Benjamin Rosman , Andrew M. Saxe

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are omnipresent in sequence modeling tasks. Practical models usually consist of several layers of hundreds or thousands of neurons which are fully connected. This places a heavy computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Matthijs Van Keirsbilck , Alexander Keller , Xiaodong Yang

Gated recurrent units (GRUs) are specialized memory elements for building recurrent neural networks. Despite their incredible success on various tasks, including extracting dynamics underlying neural data, little is understood about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Ian D. Jordan , Piotr Aleksander Sokol , Il Memming Park

This paper presents a transformative framework for artificial neural networks over graded vector spaces, tailored to model hierarchical and structured data in fields like algebraic geometry and physics. By exploiting the algebraic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Tony Shaska

The design of neural network architectures is frequently either based on human expertise using trial/error and empirical feedback or tackled via large scale reinforcement learning strategies performed over distinct discrete architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yunyang Xiong , Ronak Mehta , Vikas Singh

Feedforward neural networks with random hidden nodes suffer from a problem with the generation of random weights and biases as these are difficult to set optimally to obtain a good projection space. Typically, random parameters are drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Grzegorz Dudek

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly applied to real-world problems involving complex and structured decisions, such as routing, scheduling, and assortment planning. These settings challenge standard RL algorithms, which struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Heiko Hoppe , Léo Baty , Louis Bouvier , Axel Parmentier , Maximilian Schiffer

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are notoriously difficult to train. When the eigenvalues of the hidden to hidden weight matrix deviate from absolute value 1, optimization becomes difficult due to the well studied issue of vanishing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Martin Arjovsky , Amar Shah , Yoshua Bengio

Reinforcement learning is a general methodology of adaptive optimal control that has attracted much attention in various fields ranging from video game industry to robot manipulators. Despite its remarkable performance demonstrations, plain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Pavel Osinenko , Grigory Yaremenko , Ilya Osokin

A biologically plausible method for training an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) involves treating each unit as a stochastic Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent, thereby considering the network as a team of agents. Consequently, all units can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Stephen Chung

Recurrent Neural Networks excel at predicting and generating complex high-dimensional temporal patterns. Due to their inherent nonlinear dynamics and memory, they can learn unbounded temporal dependencies from data. In a Machine Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Guillaume Pourcel , Mirko Goldmann , Ingo Fischer , Miguel C. Soriano

Continuous adaptation allows survival in an ever-changing world. Adjustments in the synaptic coupling strength between neurons are essential for this capability, setting us apart from simpler, hard-wired organisms. How these changes can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-06 Jakob Jordan , Maximilian Schmidt , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

Neural networks can emulate nonlinear physical systems with high accuracy, yet they may produce physically-inconsistent results when violating fundamental constraints. Here, we introduce a systematic way of enforcing nonlinear analytic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Tom Beucler , Michael Pritchard , Stephan Rasp , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi , Pierre Gentine

Recurrent neural networks are increasing popular models for sequential learning. Unfortunately, although the most effective RNN architectures are perhaps excessively complicated, extensive searches have not found simpler alternatives. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 David Balduzzi , Muhammad Ghifary

We propose Sparse Neural Network architectures that are based on random or structured bipartite graph topologies. Sparse architectures provide compression of the models learned and speed-ups of computations, they can also surpass their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Alfred Bourely , John Patrick Boueri , Krzysztof Choromonski

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing methods are devoted to developing various robust training strategies or regularizations to update the weights of the neural network. But beyond the weights, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Minjing Dong , Yanxi Li , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu