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Machine learning, especially physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and their neural network variants, has been widely used to solve problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). The successful deployment of such methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Genwei Ma , Ting Luo , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

In this paper, we propose a new super-expressive activation function called the Parametric Elementary Universal Activation Function (PEUAF). We demonstrate the effectiveness of PEUAF through systematic and comprehensive experiments on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qianchao Wang , Shijun Zhang , Dong Zeng , Zhaoheng Xie , Hengtao Guo , Feng-Lei Fan , Tieyong Zeng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art results on many pattern recognition tasks, especially vision classification problems. Understanding the inner workings of such computational brains is both fascinating basic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anh Nguyen , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Jason Yosinski , Thomas Brox , Jeff Clune

We propose a new type of neural networks, Kronecker neural networks (KNNs), that form a general framework for neural networks with adaptive activation functions. KNNs employ the Kronecker product, which provides an efficient way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ameya D. Jagtap , Yeonjong Shin , Kenji Kawaguchi , George Em Karniadakis

Activation functions play a vital role in the training of Convolutional Neural Networks. For this reason, to develop efficient and performing functions is a crucial problem in the deep learning community. Key to these approaches is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Gianluca Maguolo , Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni

In this work we propose a new non-monotonic activation function: the modulus. The majority of the reported research on nonlinearities is focused on monotonic functions. We empirically demonstrate how by using the modulus activation function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Iván Vallés-Pérez , Emilio Soria-Olivas , Marcelino Martínez-Sober , Antonio J. Serrano-López , Joan Vila-Francés , Juan Gómez-Sanchís

The choice of activation functions is crucial for modern deep neural networks. Popular hand-designed activation functions like Rectified Linear Unit(ReLU) and its variants show promising performance in various tasks and models. Swish, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yucong Zhou , Zezhou Zhu , Zhao Zhong

Activation functions shape the outputs of artificial neurons and, therefore, are integral parts of neural networks in general and deep learning in particular. Some activation functions, such as logistic and relu, have been used for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Johannes Lederer

Traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) typically use the same activation function (usually ReLU) for all neurons with non-linear mapping operations. For example, the deep convolutional architecture Inception-v4 uses ReLU. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Luna M. Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been proven as a promising way for solving various partial differential equations, especially high-dimensional ones and those with irregular boundaries. However, their capabilities in real…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Guojie Li , Wuyue Yang , Liu Hong

This research paper introduces two novel complex-valued Hopfield neural networks (CvHNNs) that incorporate phase and magnitude quantization. The first CvHNN employs a ceiling-type activation function that operates on the rectangular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Garimella Ramamurthy , Marcos Eduardo Valle , Tata Jagannadha Swamy

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). However, they face challenges related to spectral bias (the tendency to learn low-frequency components while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Afrah Farea , Mustafa Serdar Celebi

This study introduces a novel activation function, characterized by a dynamic slope that adjusts throughout the training process, aimed at enhancing adaptability and performance in deep neural networks for computer vision tasks. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Archisman Chakraborti , Bidyut B Chaudhuri

Past few years have witnessed exponential growth of interest in deep learning methodologies with rapidly improving accuracies and reduced computational complexity. In particular, architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Apoorva Sikka , Abhinav Dhall , Deepti Bathula

Recently, dense connections have attracted substantial attention in computer vision because they facilitate gradient flow and implicit deep supervision during training. Particularly, DenseNet, which connects each layer to every other layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jose Dolz , Karthik Gopinath , Jing Yuan , Herve Lombaert , Christian Desrosiers , Ismail Ben Ayed

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a promising avenue for tackling both forward and inverse problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) by incorporating deep learning with fundamental physics principles. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Hemanth Saratchandran , Shin-Fang Chng , Simon Lucey

The choice of activation function can have a large effect on the performance of a neural network. While there have been some attempts to hand-engineer novel activation functions, the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) remains the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Garrett Bingham , William Macke , Risto Miikkulainen

Activation functions are crucial in deep learning models since they introduce non-linearity into the networks, allowing them to learn from errors and make adjustments, which is essential for learning complex patterns. The essential purpose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Koushik Biswas , Meghana Karri , Ulaş Bağcı

Deep neural networks are state of the art methods for many learning tasks due to their ability to extract increasingly better features at each network layer. However, the improved performance of additional layers in a deep network comes at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Surat Teerapittayanon , Bradley McDanel , H. T. Kung

Although current deep learning-based methods have gained promising performance in the blind single image super-resolution (SISR) task, most of them mainly focus on heuristically constructing diverse network architectures and put less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jiahong Fu , Hong Wang , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu
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