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Plastic self-adaptation, nonlinear recurrent dynamics and multi-scale memory are desired features in hardware implementations of neural networks, because they enable them to learn, adapt and process information similarly to the way…

Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference, especially when deploying to edge or IoT devices with limited computation capacity and power consumption budget. The uniform bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Tao Wang , Junsong Wang , Chang Xu , Chao Xue

We introduce Natural Learning (NL), a novel algorithm that elevates the explainability and interpretability of machine learning to an extreme level. NL simplifies decisions into intuitive rules, like "We rejected your loan because your…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Hadi Fanaee-T

In many classification problems a classifier should be robust to small variations in the input vector. This is a desired property not only for particular transformations, such as translation and rotation in image classification problems,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-18 Sergey Demyanov , James Bailey , Ramamohanarao Kotagiri , Christopher Leckie

It has been observed that deep neural networks (DNNs) often use both genuine as well as spurious features. In this work, we propose "Amending Inherent Interpretability via Self-Supervised Masking" (AIM), a simple yet interestingly effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Eyad Alshami , Shashank Agnihotri , Bernt Schiele , Margret Keuper

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is a compelling alternative to the backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) for computing gradients of neural networks on biological or analog neuromorphic substrates. Still, the algorithm requires weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across numerous learning tasks but often suffer from miscalibration, resulting in unreliable probability outputs. This has inspired many recent works on mitigating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenjian Huang , Guiping Cao , Jiahao Xia , Jingkun Chen , Hao Wang , Jianguo Zhang

Deep neural networks are state-of-the-art models for understanding the content of images, video and raw input data. However, implementing a deep neural network in embedded systems is a challenging task, because a typical deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Xichuan Zhou , Shengli Li , Kai Qin , Kunping Li , Fang Tang , Shengdong Hu , Shujun Liu , Zhi Lin

We introduce deep tensor networks, which are exponentially wide neural networks based on the tensor network representation of the weight matrices. We evaluate the proposed method on the image classification (MNIST, FashionMNIST) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Bojan Žunkovič

We propose a new quantum neural network for image classification, which is able to classify the parity of the MNIST dataset with full resolution with a test accuracy of up to 97.5% without any classical pre-processing or post-processing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Paolo Alessandro Xavier Tognini , Leonardo Banchi , Giacomo De Palma

The proper handling of out-of-distribution (OOD) samples in deep classifiers is a critical concern for ensuring the suitability of deep neural networks in safety-critical systems. Existing approaches developed for robust OOD detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Nasrin Alipour , Seyyed Ali SeyyedSalehi

Training a deep neural network with the outputs of selected layers satisfying linear constraints is required in many contemporary data-driven applications. While this can be achieved by incorporating projection layers into the neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Zonglin Yang , Zhexuan Gu , Yancheng Yuan

Generative models are widely used for unsupervised learning with various applications, including data compression and signal restoration. Training methods for such systems focus on the generality of the network given limited amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Asim Munawar , Phongtharin Vinayavekhin , Giovanni De Magistris

Deep hashing has shown promising performance in large-scale image retrieval. However, latent codes extracted by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) will inevitably lose semantic information during the binarization process, which damages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Chengyin Xu , Zenghao Chai , Zhengzhuo Xu , Hongjia Li , Qiruyi Zuo , Lingyu Yang , Chun Yuan

Learning in the brain is poorly understood and learning rules that respect biological constraints, yet yield deep hierarchical representations, are still unknown. Here, we propose a learning rule that takes inspiration from neuroscience and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bernd Illing , Jean Ventura , Guillaume Bellec , Wulfram Gerstner

This paper is the first to explore an automatic way to detect bias in deep convolutional neural networks by simply looking at their weights. Furthermore, it is also a step towards understanding neural networks and how they work. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ignacio Serna , Daniel DeAlcala , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

When comparing human with artificial intelligence, one major difference is apparent: Humans can generalize very broadly from sparse data sets because they are able to recombine and reintegrate data components in compositional manners. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Sarah Fabi , Sebastian Otte , Jonas Gregor Wiese , Martin V. Butz

Deep neural network (DNN) deployment has been confined to larger hardware devices due to their expensive computational requirements. This challenge has recently reached another scale with the emergence of large language models (LLMs). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Over the past two decades, the feedforward neural network (FNN) optimization has been a key interest among the researchers and practitioners of multiple disciplines. The FNN optimization is often viewed from the various perspectives: the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Václav Snášel

The MNIST dataset has become a standard benchmark for learning, classification and computer vision systems. Contributing to its widespread adoption are the understandable and intuitive nature of the task, its relatively small size and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gregory Cohen , Saeed Afshar , Jonathan Tapson , André van Schaik