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We study a quantity called discrete layered entropy, which approximates the Shannon entropy within a logarithmic gap. Compared to the Shannon entropy, the discrete layered entropy is piecewise linear, approximates the expected length of the…

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We propose a method to facilitate exploration and analysis of new large data sets. In particular, we give an unsupervised deep learning approach to learning a latent representation that captures semantic similarity in the data set. The core…

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Deciphering brain function through non-invasive recordings requires synthesizing complementary high-frequency electromagnetic (EEG/MEG) and low-frequency metabolic (fMRI) signals. However, despite their shared neural origins, extreme…

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Sleep stage classification is a widely discussed topic, due to its importance in the diagnosis of sleep disorders, e.g. insomnia. Analysis of the brain activity during sleep is necessary to gain further insight into the processing that…

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High speed optical telecommunication is enabled by wavelength division multiplexing, whereby hundreds of individually stabilized lasers encode the information within a single mode optical fiber. In the seek for larger bandwidth the optical…

Although extreme learning machine (ELM) has been successfully applied to a number of pattern recognition problems, it fails to pro-vide sufficient good results in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification due to two main drawbacks. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Faxian Cao , Zhijing Yang , Jinchang Ren , Wing-Kuen Ling

Entropy minimization (EM) is frequently used to increase the accuracy of classification models when they're faced with new data at test time. EM is a self-supervised learning method that optimizes classifiers to assign even higher…

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Modern deep neural networks achieved remarkable progress in medical image segmentation tasks. However, it has recently been observed that they tend to produce overconfident estimates, even in situations of high uncertainty, leading to…

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Opto-electronic computing combines the complementary strengths of photonics and electronics to deliver ultrahigh computational throughput with high energy efficiency. However, its practical deployment for real-world applications has been…

Recent development in deep learning techniques has attracted attention in decoding and classification in EEG signals. Despite several efforts utilizing different features of EEG signals, a significant research challenge is to use…

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The proliferation of deep learning applications has intensified the demand for electronic hardware with low energy consumption and fast computing speed. Neuromorphic photonics have emerged as a viable alternative to directly process…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Guangfeng You , Chao Qian , Hongsheng Chen

Channel interpolation is an essential technique for providing high-accuracy estimation of the channel state information (CSI) for wireless systems design where the frequency-space structural correlations of multi-antenna channel are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Han Zhang , Bo Ai , Wenjun Xu , Li Xu , Shuguang Cui

We address the fundamental question of how to optimally probe a scene with electromagnetic (EM) radiation to yield a maximum amount of information relevant to a particular task. Machine learning (ML) techniques have emerged as powerful…

Low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) has emerged as a technique of choice for exploring the localization of plasmonic phenomena at the nanometer level, necessitating analysis of physical behaviors from 3D spectral data sets.…

Information has an entropic character which can be analyzed within the Statistical Theory in molecular systems. R. Landauer and C.H. Bennett showed that a logical copy can be carried out in the limit of no dissipation if the computation is…

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This paper aims to establish a framework for extreme learning machines (ELMs) on general hypercomplex algebras. Hypercomplex neural networks are machine learning models that feature higher-dimension numbers as parameters, inputs, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Guilherme Vieira , Marcos Eduardo Valle

The maximum entropy method (MEM) is a well known deconvolution technique in radio-interferometry. This method solves a non-linear optimization problem with an entropy regularization term. Other heuristics such as CLEAN are faster but highly…

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The Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) technique is a machine learning approach for constructing feed-forward neural networks with a single hidden layer and their models. The ELM model can be constructed while being trained by concurrently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Muideen Adegoke , Lateef O. Jolaoso , Mardiyyah Oduwole

Transductive few-shot learning has recently triggered wide attention in computer vision. Yet, current methods introduce key hyper-parameters, which control the prediction statistics of the test batches, such as the level of class balance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Long Zhou , Fereshteh Shakeri , Aymen Sadraoui , Mounir Kaaniche , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Ismail Ben Ayed

It is not obvious how to extend Shannon's original information entropy to higher dimensions, and many different approaches have been tried. We replace the English text symbol sequence originally used to illustrate the theory by a discrete,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Kieran G. Larkin