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Efficient model selection for identifying a suitable pre-trained neural network to a downstream task is a fundamental yet challenging task in deep learning. Current practice requires expensive computational costs in model training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chunheng Jiang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Yizhou Sun , Jianxi Gao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

A standard assumption in deep learning is that the inductive bias introduced by a neural network architecture must persist from training through inference. The architecture you train with is the architecture you deploy. This assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Vighnesh Subramaniam , Colin Conwell , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu , Brian Cheung

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art method to learn from image data. However, recent research shows that they may include a texture and colour bias in their representation, contrary to the intuition that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francis Brochu

Existing unpaired low-light image enhancement approaches prefer to employ the two-way GAN framework, in which two CNN generators are deployed for enhancement and degradation separately. However, such data-driven models ignore the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jize Zhang , Haolin Wang , Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo

The deep convolutional neural network has achieved significant progress for single image rain streak removal. However, most of the data-driven learning methods are full-supervised or semi-supervised, unexpectedly suffering from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Changfeng Yu , Yi Chang , Yi Li , Xile Zhao , Luxin Yan

Neural networks allow solving many ill-posed inverse problems with unprecedented performance. Physics informed approaches already progressively replace carefully hand-crafted reconstruction algorithms in real applications. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Alban Gossard , Pierre Weiss

The inductive biases of trained neural networks are difficult to understand and, consequently, to adapt to new settings. We study the inductive biases of linearizations of neural networks, which we show to be surprisingly good summaries of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-29 Wesley J. Maddox , Shuai Tang , Pablo Garcia Moreno , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Andreas Damianou

The ability to predict future states of the environment is a central pillar of intelligence. At its core, effective prediction requires an internal model of the world and an understanding of the rules by which the world changes. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-21 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox

Neural networks are powerful function estimators, leading to their status as a paradigm of choice for modeling structured data. However, unlike other structured representations that emphasize the modularity of the problem -- e.g., factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tsvetomila Mihaylova , Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins

Benign overfitting refers to how over-parameterized neural networks can fit training data perfectly and generalize well to unseen data. While this has been widely investigated theoretically, existing works are limited to two-layer networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shuning Shang , Xuran Meng , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou

Dense pixel-wise image prediction has been advanced by harnessing the capabilities of Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs). One central issue of FCNs is the limited capacity to handle joint upsampling. To address the problem, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Huikai Wu , Shuai Zheng , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

As large-scale pre-trained foundation models continue to expand in size and capability, efficiently adapting them to specific downstream tasks has become increasingly critical. Despite substantial progress, existing adaptation approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zesheng Ye , Chengyi Cai , Ruijiang Dong , Jianzhong Qi , Lei Feng , Pin-Yu Chen , Feng Liu

Voltage prediction in distribution grids is a critical yet difficult task for maintaining power system stability. Machine learning approaches, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), offer significant speedups but suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ehimare Okoyomon , Arbel Yaniv , Christoph Goebel

Image translation with convolutional neural networks has recently been used as an approach to multimodal change detection. Existing approaches train the networks by exploiting supervised information of the change areas, which, however, is…

Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) require a good model for the controlled process. In this paper I infer inductive biases about a physical system. I use these biases to derive a new neural network architecture that can model this real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Cristian Vicas

Over the years, computer vision researchers have spent an immense amount of effort on designing image features for the visual object recognition task. We propose to incorporate this valuable experience to guide the task of training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ming-Yu Liu , Arun Mallya , Oncel C. Tuzel , Xi Chen

When seeing a new object, humans can immediately recognize it across different retinal locations: we say that the internal object representation is invariant to translation. It is commonly believed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Valerio Biscione , Jeffrey Bowers

This paper presents an automatic network adaptation method that finds a ConvNet structure well-suited to a given target task, e.g., image classification, for efficiency as well as accuracy in transfer learning. We call the concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yang Zhong , Vladimir Li , Ryuzo Okada , Atsuto Maki

Convolutional neural networks provide visual features that perform remarkably well in many computer vision applications. However, training these networks requires significant amounts of supervision. This paper introduces a generic framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-19 Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin