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Dropout and similar stochastic neural network regularization methods are often interpreted as implicitly averaging over a large ensemble of models. We propose STE (stochastically trained ensemble) layers, which enhance the averaging…

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As a simple technique to accelerate inference of large-scale pre-trained models, early exiting has gained much attention in the NLP community. It allows samples to exit early at internal classifiers without passing through the entire model.…

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Diversity is an important consideration in the construction of robust neural network ensembles. A collection of well trained models will generalize better if they are diverse in the patterns they respond to and the predictions they make.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a promising technique for collaborative learning without local data leaving their devices. However, clients' data originating from diverse domains may degrade model performance due to domain shifts,…

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Mutual learning, in which multiple networks learn by sharing their knowledge, improves the performance of each network. However, the performance of ensembles of networks that have undergone mutual learning does not improve significantly…

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Often the best performing deep neural models are ensembles of multiple base-level networks. Unfortunately, the space required to store these many networks, and the time required to execute them at test-time, prohibits their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhankui He , Xiangyang Xue

Deep neural networks have enhanced the performance of decision making systems in many applications including image understanding, and further gains can be achieved by constructing ensembles. However, designing an ensemble of deep networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Sara Atito Ali Ahmed , Cemre Zor , Berrin Yanikoglu , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

The recent success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has drastically improved the state of the art for many application domains. While achieving high accuracy performance, deploying state-of-the-art DNNs is a challenge since they typically…

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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models substantially improve performance by increasing the capacity of dense architectures. However, directly training MoE models requires considerable computational resources and introduces extra overhead in…

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In this paper, we present Deep Extreme Feature Extraction (DEFE), a new ensemble MVA method for searching $\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ channel of Higgs bosons in high energy physics. DEFE can be viewed as a deep ensemble learning scheme that trains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Chao Ma , Tianchenghou , Bin Lan , Jinhui Xu , Zhenhua Zhang

Structure learning of Bayesian networks has always been a challenging problem. Nowadays, massive-size networks with thousands or more of nodes but fewer samples frequently appear in many areas. We develop a divide-and-conquer framework,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-24 Jiaying Gu , Qing Zhou

Neural network (NN) ensembles can reduce large prediction variance of NN and improve prediction accuracy. For highly nonlinear problems with insufficient data set, the prediction accuracy of NN models becomes unstable, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ungki Lee , Namwoo Kang

Ensemble learning serves as a straightforward way to improve the performance of almost any machine learning algorithm. Existing deep ensemble methods usually naively train many different models and then aggregate their predictions. This is…

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In the context of adversarial robustness, a single model does not usually have enough power to defend against all possible adversarial attacks, and as a result, has sub-optimal robustness. Consequently, an emerging line of work has focused…

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Ensembles of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved qualitative predictions but they are computing and memory intensive. Therefore, the demand is growing to make them answer a heavy workload of requests with available computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pierrick Pochelu , Serge G. Petiton , Bruno Conche

Ensemble learning that can be used to combine the predictions from multiple learners has been widely applied in pattern recognition, and has been reported to be more robust and accurate than the individual learners. This ensemble logic has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Xiaokang Zhang , Inge Jonassen

Ensemble learning is a meta-learning approach that combines the predictions of multiple learners, demonstrating improved accuracy and robustness. Nevertheless, ensembling models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) result in high…

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The main flaw of neural network ensembling is that it is exceptionally demanding computationally, especially, if the individual sub-models are large neural networks, which must be trained separately. Having in mind that modern DNNs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ludwik Bukowski , Witold Dzwinel

We propose an automatic preprocessing and ensemble learning for segmentation of cell images with low quality. It is difficult to capture cells with strong light. Therefore, the microscopic images of cells tend to have low image quality but…

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We introduce a new procedure for training of artificial neural networks by using the approximation of an objective function by arithmetic mean of an ensemble of selected randomly generated neural networks, and apply this procedure to the…

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