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Deep neural networks have been shown to easily overfit to biased training data with label noise or class imbalance. Meta-learning algorithms are commonly designed to alleviate this issue in the form of sample reweighting, by learning a meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hongxin Wei , Lei Feng , Rundong Wang , Bo An

Neural networks are known to develop latent representations that are $aligned$, namely structurally similar across networks trained with different architectures, training protocols, or training datasets. We study this phenomenon in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Ali Hussaini Umar , Alessandro Laio

Studying the sensitivity of weight perturbation in neural networks and its impacts on model performance, including generalization and robustness, is an active research topic due to its implications on a wide range of machine learning tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

In the presence of noisy or incorrect labels, neural networks have the undesirable tendency to memorize information about the noise. Standard regularization techniques such as dropout, weight decay or data augmentation sometimes help, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

An artificial neural network can be trained by uniformly broadcasting a reward signal to units that implement a REINFORCE learning rule. Though this presents a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation in training a network, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Stephen Chung

We propose self-adaptive training -- a unified training algorithm that dynamically calibrates and enhances training processes by model predictions without incurring an extra computational cost -- to advance both supervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Deep convolutional neural networks are known to be unstable during training at high learning rate unless normalization techniques are employed. Normalizing weights or activations allows the use of higher learning rates, resulting in faster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Brendan Ruff , Taylor Beck , Joscha Bach

Training deep neural networks typically relies on backpropagating high dimensional error signals a computationally intensive process with little evidence supporting its implementation in the brain. However, since most tasks involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Maher Hanut , Jonathan Kadmon

The approximation and convergence properties of implicit neural representations (INRs) are known to be highly sensitive to parameter initialization strategies. While several data-driven initialization methods demonstrate significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kushal Vyas , Alper Kayabasi , Daniel Kim , Vishwanath Saragadam , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Despite remarkable progress on visual recognition tasks, deep neural-nets still struggle to generalize well when training data is scarce or highly imbalanced, rendering them extremely vulnerable to real-world examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shiran Zada , Itay Benou , Michal Irani

Web-scale pre-training datasets are the cornerstone of LLMs' success. However, text data curated from the Internet inevitably contains random noise caused by decoding errors or unregulated web content. In contrast to previous works that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jinghan Ru , Yuxin Xie , Xianwei Zhuang , Yuguo Yin , Zhihui Guo , Zhiming Liu , Qianli Ren , Yuexian Zou

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

We propose self-adaptive training---a new training algorithm that dynamically corrects problematic training labels by model predictions without incurring extra computational cost---to improve generalization of deep learning for potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

We introduce a Noise-based prior Learning (NoL) approach for training neural networks that are intrinsically robust to adversarial attacks. We find that the implicit generative modeling of random noise with the same loss function used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Improving learning efficiency is paramount for learning resource allocation with deep neural networks (DNNs) in wireless communications over highly dynamic environments. Incorporating domain knowledge into learning is a promising way of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-12 Chengjian Sun , Jiajun Wu , Chenyang Yang

Reinforcement learning algorithms are used in a wide range of applications, from gaming and robotics to autonomous vehicles. In this paper we describe a set of reinforcement learning-based local weight update rules and their implementation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-05 M. L. Schneider , E. M. Jué , M. R. Pufall , K. Segall , C. W. Anderson

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

Compared with traditional seismic noise attenuation algorithms that depend on signal models and their corresponding prior assumptions, removing noise with a deep neural network is trained based on a large training set, where the inputs are…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Siwei Yu , Jianwei Ma , Wenlong Wang

Today artificial neural networks are applied in various fields - engineering, data analysis, robotics. While they represent a successful tool for a variety of relevant applications, mathematically speaking they are still far from being…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-30 K. G. Kapanova , I. Dimov , J. M. Sellier

The rapidly increasing computational demands for artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred the exploration of computing principles beyond conventional digital computers. Physical neural networks (PNNs) offer efficient neuromorphic…