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In this study, we explore the impact of network topology on the approximation capabilities of artificial neural networks (ANNs), with a particular focus on complex topologies. We propose a novel methodology for constructing complex ANNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tommaso Boccato , Matteo Ferrante , Andrea Duggento , Nicola Toschi

From fully connected neural networks to convolutional neural networks, the learned parameters within a neural network have been primarily relegated to the linear parameters (e.g., convolutional filters). The non-linear functions (e.g.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Andrew Hryniowski , Alexander Wong

This study introduces PINN4PF, an end-to-end deep learning architecture for power flow (PF) analysis that effectively captures the nonlinear dynamics of large-scale modern power systems. The proposed neural network (NN) architecture…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Zeynab Kaseb , Stavros Orfanoudakis , Pedro P. Vergara , Peter Palensky

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be highly effective in a variety of tasks, making them the go-to method for problems requiring high-level predictive power. Despite this success, the inner workings of DNNs are often not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Anton Thielmann , René-Marcel Kruse , Thomas Kneib , Benjamin Säfken

This thesis presents a novel approach to neural network training that addresses the challenge of determining the optimal number of learning factors. The proposed Adaptive Multiple Optimal Learning Factors (AMOLF) algorithm dynamically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jeshwanth Challagundla

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a powerful framework for modeling continuous signals. The spectral bias of ReLU-based networks is a well-established limitation, restricting their ability to capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alireza Morsali , MohammadJavad Vaez , Mohammadhossein Soltani , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Babak Taati , Morteza Mohammad-Noori

The hyper-parameters of a neural network are traditionally designed through a time consuming process of trial and error that requires substantial expert knowledge. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim to take the human out of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Andrew Nader , Danielle Azar

Modern Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) learn a mapping from position to volumetric density leveraging proposal network samplers. In contrast to the coarse-to-fine sampling approach with two NeRFs, this offers significant potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Radl , Andreas Kurz , Michael Steiner , Markus Steinberger

Deep neural networks have been successfully used in diverse emerging domains to solve real world complex problems with may more deep learning(DL) architectures, being developed to date. To achieve these state-of-the-art performances, the DL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Chigozie Nwankpa , Winifred Ijomah , Anthony Gachagan , Stephen Marshall

Recently, machine learning (ML) has been used to address the computational cost that has been limiting ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). Here, we present GNNFF, a graph neural network framework to directly predict atomic forces from…

A pivotal aspect in the design of neural networks lies in selecting activation functions, crucial for introducing nonlinear structures that capture intricate input-output patterns. While the effectiveness of adaptive or trainable activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Tahamina Nasrin , Robert E. Jensen , Amy M. Peterson , Christopher J. Hansen

In the management of computer network systems, the service function chaining (SFC) modules play an important role by generating efficient paths for network traffic through physical servers with virtualized network functions (VNF). To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-18 DongNyeong Heo , Doyoung Lee , Hee-Gon Kim , Suhyun Park , Heeyoul Choi

Recent advancements in on-device training for deep neural networks have underscored the critical need for efficient activation compression to overcome the memory constraints of mobile and edge devices. As activations dominate memory usage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Renyuan Liu , Yuyang Leng , Kaiyan Liu , Shaohan Hu , Chun-Fu , Chen , Peijun Zhao , Heechul Yun , Shuochao Yao

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) often struggle to adapt to new dynamic behaviors caused by parameter changes in the underlying physical system, even when these dynamics are similar to previously observed behaviors. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Roussel Desmond Nzoyem , David A. W. Barton , Tom Deakin

Fast feedforward networks (FFFs) are a class of neural networks that exploit the observation that different regions of the input space activate distinct subsets of neurons in wide networks. FFFs partition the input space into separate…

In recent years, the gap between Deep Learning (DL) methods and analytical or numerical approaches in scientific computing is tried to be filled by the evolution of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). However, still, there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jassem Abbasi , Pål Østebø Andersen

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarially perturbed inputs. A commonly used defense is adversarial training, whose performance is influenced by model capacity. While previous works have studied the impact of varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sihui Dai , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

To enhance the nonlinearity of neural networks and increase their mapping abilities between the inputs and response variables, activation functions play a crucial role to model more complex relationships and patterns in the data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Haigen Hu , Aizhu Liu , Qiu Guan , Xiaoxin Li , Shengyong Chen , Qianwei Zhou

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are useful for many practical tasks in machine learning. Synaptic weights, as well as neuron activation functions within the deep network are typically stored with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Moritz B. Milde , Daniel Neil , Alessandro Aimar , Tobi Delbruck , Giacomo Indiveri

While recent advances in machine learning have equipped Weather Foundation Models (WFMs) with substantial generalization capabilities across diverse downstream tasks, the escalating computational requirements associated with their expanding…