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Biologically inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) are widely used to realize ultralow-power energy consumption. However, deep SNNs are not easy to train due to the excessive firing of spiking neurons in the hidden layers. To tackle this…

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In this work we define and analyze the bilinear models which replace the conventional linear operation used in many building blocks of machine learning (ML). The main idea is to devise the ML algorithms which are adapted to the objects they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tayssir Doghri , Leszek Szczecinski , Jacob Benesty , Amar Mitiche

In this paper we present a novel Neural Network algorithm for conducting semi-supervised learning for sequence labeling tasks arranged in a linguistically motivated hierarchy. This relationship is exploited to regularise the representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Jonathan Godwin , Pontus Stenetorp , Sebastian Riedel

Neural networks have become a cornerstone of machine learning. As the trend for these to get more and more complex continues, so does the underlying hardware and software infrastructure for training and deployment. In this survey we answer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Felix Brakel , Uraz Odyurt , Ana-Lucia Varbanescu

In this note we describe conditions under which, in idempotent functional analysis, linear operators have integral representations in terms of idempotent integral of V. P. Maslov. We define the notion of nuclear idempotent semimodule and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grigori Litvinov , Grigori Shpiz

This is part of an ongoing project to find a general algebraic framework for semiring theory. The structure theory of semirings is quite challenging, largely because of the lack of negation, and such basic properties such as unique…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Louis Rowen

Deep feedforward neural networks with piecewise linear activations are currently producing the state-of-the-art results in several public datasets. The combination of deep learning models and piecewise linear activation functions allows for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Zhibin Liao , Gustavo Carneiro

We study neural networks with trainable low-degree rational activation functions and show that they are more expressive and parameter-efficient than modern piecewise-linear and smooth activations such as ELU, LeakyReLU, LogSigmoid, PReLU,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Maosen Tang , Alex Townsend

We consider active, semi-supervised learning in an offline transductive setting. We show that a previously proposed error bound for active learning on undirected weighted graphs can be generalized by replacing graph cut with an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Andrew Guillory , Jeff A. Bilmes

The purpose of the paper is to introduce and study a new class of operators on semi-Hilbertian spaces i.e.; spaces generated by positive semidefinite sesquilinear forms. Let H be a Hilbert space and let A be a positive bounded operator on H…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Samir Al Mohammady , Sid Ahmed Ould Beinane , Sid Ahmed O. Ahmed Mahmoud

In this paper, we introduce and study two new classes of commutative rings, namely semi transitional rings and transitional rings, which extend several classical ideas arising from rings of continuous functions and their variants. A general…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Sourav Koner , Titas Saha , Biswajit Mitra

Effective convolutional neural networks are trained on large sets of labeled data. However, creating large labeled datasets is a very costly and time-consuming task. Semi-supervised learning uses unlabeled data to train a model with higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Mehdi Sajjadi , Mehran Javanmardi , Tolga Tasdizen

Artificial neural networks usually consist of successive linear multiply-accumulate operations and nonlinear activation functions. However, most optical neural networks only achieve the linear operation in the optical domain, while the…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-03 Guanting Liu , Yiwei Shen , Ruiqian Li , Jingyi Yu , Xuming He , Cheng Wang

Neural operators have emerged as transformative tools for learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, offering useful applications in solving complex partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper presents a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Vu-Anh Le , Mehmet Dik

Many numerical algorithms in scientific computing -- particularly in areas like numerical linear algebra, PDE simulation, and inverse problems -- produce outputs that can be represented by semialgebraic functions; that is, the graph of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 S. David Mis , Matti Lassas , Maarten V. de Hoop

Factors that limit the size of the input and output of a neural network include memory requirements for the network states/activations to compute gradients, as well as memory for the convolutional kernels or other weights. The memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Bas Peters , Eldad Haber , Keegan Lensink

While the concept of a Sparse Neural Network has been researched for some time, researchers have only recently made notable progress in the matter. Techniques like Sparse Evolutionary Training allow for significantly lower computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Adam Dubowski

We examine the closedness of sets of realized neural networks of a fixed architecture in Sobolev spaces. For an exactly $m$-times differentiable activation function $\rho$, we construct a sequence of neural networks $(\Phi_n)_{n \in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-29 Scott Mahan , Emily King , Alex Cloninger

The concept of integral as an inverse to that of derivation was already introduced for rings and recently also for lattices. Since semirings generalize both rings and bounded distributive lattices, it is natural to investigate integration…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Ivan Chajda , Helmut Länger

Activation functions play an essential role in neural networks. They provide the non-linearity for the networks. Therefore, their properties are important for neural networks' accuracy and running performance. In this paper, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuanhao Gong