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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples and other data perturbations. Especially in safety critical applications of DNNs, it is therefore crucial to detect misclassified samples. The current state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Julia Lust , Alexandru Paul Condurache

We present an approach for estimating surface normals from in-the-wild color images of faces. While data-driven strategies have been proposed for single face images, limited available ground truth data makes this problem difficult. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Adnane Boukhayma , Philip H. S. Torr , Edmond Boyer

Gradient descent prevails in artificial neural network training, but seems inept for spiking neural networks as small parameter changes can cause sudden, disruptive (dis-)appearances of spikes. Here, we demonstrate exact gradient descent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-29 Christian Klos , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

This paper proposes a set of new error criteria and learning approaches, Adaptive Normalized Risk-Averting Training (ANRAT), to attack the non-convex optimization problem in training deep neural networks (DNNs). Theoretically, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Zhiguang Wang , Tim Oates , James Lo

Normalization layers are widely used in deep neural networks to stabilize training. In this paper, we consider the training of convolutional neural networks with gradient descent on a single training example. This optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Zhenwei Dai , Reinhard Heckel

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown dramatic improvements in single image super-resolution (SISR) by using large-scale external samples. Despite their remarkable performance based on the external dataset, they cannot exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Jae Woong Soh , Sunwoo Cho , Nam Ik Cho

In this paper, we propose a novel normalization method called gradient normalization (GN) to tackle the training instability of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused by the sharp gradient space. Unlike existing work such as gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yi-Lun Wu , Hong-Han Shuai , Zhi-Rui Tam , Hong-Yu Chiu

Objective: To improve accelerated MRI reconstruction through a densely connected cascading deep learning reconstruction framework. Materials and Methods: A cascading deep learning reconstruction framework (baseline model) was modified by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Jon Andre Ottesen , Matthan W. A. Caan , Inge Rasmus Groote , Atle Bjørnerud

Deep learning models, despite their impressive achievements, suffer from high computational costs and memory requirements, limiting their usability in resource-constrained environments. Sparse neural networks significantly alleviate these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jie Ji , Gen Li , Kaiyuan Deng , Fatemeh Afghah , Xiaolong Ma

Learning rate scheduling plays a critical role in the optimization of deep neural networks, directly influencing convergence speed, stability, and generalization. While existing schedulers such as cosine annealing, cyclical learning rates,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ayush K. Varshney , Šarūnas Girdzijauskas , Konstantinos Vandikas , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan

In recent years, Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks (RSNNs) have shown promising potential in long-term temporal modeling. Many studies focus on improving neuron models and also integrate recurrent structures, leveraging their synergistic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Shang Xu , Jiayu Zhang , Ziming Wang , Runhao Jiang , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang

Evaluating disfluency removal in speech requires more than aggregate token-level scores. Traditional word-based metrics such as precision, recall, and F1 (E-Scores) capture overall performance but cannot reveal why models succeed or fail.…

In this paper, we propose a generic and simple strategy for utilizing stochastic gradient information in optimization. The technique essentially contains two consecutive steps in each iteration: 1) computing and normalizing each block…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Adams Wei Yu , Lei Huang , Qihang Lin , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Jaime Carbonell

Low-latency deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become a promising alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs) because of their potential for increased energy efficiency on event-driven neuromorphic hardware. Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Souvik Kundu , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Normalization layers in neural operators usually compute statistics by uniformly averaging discrete grid values, making the normalization itself discretization-dependent and thereby a source of transfer error across different resolutions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bum Jun Kim , Makoto Kawano , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

Despite the enormous success of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) in modeling graph-structured data, most of the current GCNs are shallow due to the notoriously challenging problems of over-smoothening and information squashing along with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ajay Jaiswal , Peihao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Justin F. Rousseau , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Large-scale distributed training of deep neural networks results in models with worse generalization performance as a result of the increase in the effective mini-batch size. Previous approaches attempt to address this problem by varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Kazuki Osawa , Yohei Tsuji , Yuichiro Ueno , Akira Naruse , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Rio Yokota

Spiking neural network (SNN) is studied in multidisciplinary domains to (i) enable order-of-magnitudes energy-efficient AI inference and (ii) computationally simulate neuro-scientific mechanisms. The lack of discrete theory obstructs the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hyunseok Oh , Youngki Lee

Computation using brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) with neuromorphic hardware may offer orders of magnitude higher energy efficiency compared to the current analog neural networks (ANNs). Unfortunately, training SNNs with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Julius Ruseckas , Alfonsas Juršėnas , Giedrius Buračas

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired models that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. However, the supervised training of SNNs remains a hard problem due to the discontinuity of the spiking neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin