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Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

Traditional evaluation metrics for learned models that report aggregate scores over a test set are insufficient for surfacing important and informative patterns of failure over features and instances. We introduce and study a method aimed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sahil Singla , Besmira Nushi , Shital Shah , Ece Kamar , Eric Horvitz

Hyperparameters greatly impact models' capabilities; however, modern models are too large for extensive search. Instead, researchers design recipes that train well across scales based on their understanding of the hyperparameters. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Nicholas Lourie , He He , Kyunghyun Cho

Persistent Homology (PH) has been successfully used to train networks to detect curvilinear structures and to improve the topological quality of their results. However, existing methods are very global and ignore the location of topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Doruk Oner , Adélie Garin , Mateusz Koziński , Kathryn Hess , Pascal Fua

Harnessing the local topography of the loss landscape is a central challenge in advanced optimization tasks. By accounting for the effect of potential parameter changes, we can alter the model more efficiently. Contrary to standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jed A. Duersch , Tommie A. Catanach , Alexander Safonov , Jeremy Wendt

Shape information is crucial for human perception and cognition, and should therefore also play a role in cognitive AI systems. We employ the interdisciplinary framework of conceptual spaces, which proposes a geometric representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Lucas Bechberger , Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

This paper develops a novel methodology for using symbolic knowledge in deep learning. From first principles, we derive a semantic loss function that bridges between neural output vectors and logical constraints. This loss function captures…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Jingyi Xu , Zilu Zhang , Tal Friedman , Yitao Liang , Guy Van den Broeck

Overparameterization is central to the success of deep learning, yet the mechanisms by which it improves optimization remain incompletely understood. We analyze weight-space symmetries in neural networks and show that overparameterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Kusha Sareen , Mohammad Pedramfar , Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Mehran Shakerinava , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Understanding the behaviour of complex laser systems is an outstanding challenge, especially in the presence of nonlinear interactions between modes. Hidden features, such as the gain distributions and spatial localisation of lasing modes,…

Although neural networks are capable of reaching astonishing performances on a wide variety of contexts, properly training networks on complicated tasks requires expertise and can be expensive from a computational perspective. In industrial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Théo Lacombe , Yuichi Ike , Mathieu Carriere , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuhei Umeda

Numerous deep learning applications benefit from multi-task learning with multiple regression and classification objectives. In this paper we make the observation that the performance of such systems is strongly dependent on the relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Alex Kendall , Yarin Gal , Roberto Cipolla

This paper presents a deep nonlinear metric learning framework for data visualization on an image dataset. We propose the Triangular Similarity and prove its equivalence to the Cosine Similarity in measuring a data pair. Based on this novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Lilei Zheng , Ying Zhang , Stefan Duffner , Khalid Idrissi , Christophe Garcia , Atilla Baskurt

We propose a unified look at jointly learning multiple vision tasks and visual domains through universal representations, a single deep neural network. Learning multiple problems simultaneously involves minimizing a weighted sum of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Wei-Hong Li , Xialei Liu , Hakan Bilen

Automatic building extraction from aerial imagery has several applications in urban planning, disaster management, and change detection. In recent years, several works have adopted deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for building…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Clint Sebastian , Raffaele Imbriaco , Egor Bondarev , Peter H. N. de With

A central challenge in data visualization is to understand which data samples are required to generate an image of a data set in which the relevant information is encoded. In this work, we make a first step towards answering the question of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Sebastian Weiss , Mustafa Işık , Justus Thies , Rüdiger Westermann

The effectiveness of Object Detection, one of the central problems in computer vision tasks, highly depends on the definition of the loss function - a measure of how accurately your ML model can predict the expected outcome. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Zhora Gevorgyan

Understanding the geometry of neural network loss landscapes is a central question in deep learning, with implications for generalization and optimization. A striking phenomenon is linear mode connectivity (LMC), where independently trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Alexander Theus , Alessandro Cabodi , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Antonio Orvieto , Sidak Pal Singh , Valentina Boeva

In image segmentation, preserving the topology of segmented structures like vessels, membranes, or roads is crucial. For instance, topological errors on road networks can significantly impact navigation. Recently proposed solutions are loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Benedict Schacht , Imke Greving , Simone Frintrop , Berit Zeller-Plumhoff , Christian Wilms

It is challenging to directly estimate the human geometry from a single image due to the high diversity and complexity of body shapes with the various clothing styles. Most of model-based approaches are limited to predict the shape and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Lixiang Lin , Jianke Zhu

This paper introduces a new technique to measure the feature dependency of neural network models. The motivation is to better understand a model by querying whether it is using information from human-understandable features, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yinzhu Jin , Matthew B. Dwyer , P. Thomas Fletcher