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In decision-making problems with limited training data, policy functions approximated using deep neural networks often exhibit suboptimal performance. An alternative approach involves learning a world model from the limited data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Dixant Mittal , Wee Sun Lee

Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in image and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various types with hundreds to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Sheng Lin , Ning Liu , Mahdi Nazemi , Hongjia Li , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang , Massoud Pedram

Tree ensemble algorithms as RandomForest and GradientBoosting are currently the dominant methods for modeling discrete or tabular data, however, they are unable to perform a hierarchical representation learning from raw data as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ángel Delgado-Panadero , José Alberto Benítez-Andrades , María Teresa García-Ordás

We present a general architecture of deep differentiable forest and its sparse attention mechanism. The differentiable forest has the advantages of both trees and neural networks. Its structure is a simple binary tree, easy to use and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yingshi Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous thanks to their remarkable ability to model complex patterns across various domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, etc. While large DNN models are often more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Omkar Shende , Gayathri Ananthanarayanan , Marcello Traiola

Tabular datasets play a crucial role in various applications. Thus, developing efficient, effective, and widely compatible prediction algorithms for tabular data is important. Currently, two prominent model types, Gradient Boosted Decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiahuan Yan , Jintai Chen , Qianxing Wang , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Decision trees and random forest remain highly competitive for classification on medium-sized, standard datasets due to their robustness, minimal preprocessing requirements, and interpretability. However, a single tree suffers from high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong , Carey E. Priebe

Decision Trees (DTs) are widely used in safety-critical domains such as medical diagnosis, valued for their interpretability and effectiveness on tabular data. However, training accurate oblique DTs is challenging due to complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Subrat Prasad Panda , Blaise Genest , Arvind Easwaran

In an ever expanding set of research and application areas, deep neural networks (DNNs) set the bar for algorithm performance. However, depending upon additional constraints such as processing power and execution time limits, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nathan Dahlin , Krishna Chaitanya Kalagarla , Nikhil Naik , Rahul Jain , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Deep networks and decision forests (such as random forests and gradient boosted trees) are the leading machine learning methods for structured and tabular data, respectively. Many papers have empirically compared large numbers of…

Image restoration has seen substantial progress in recent years. However, existing methods often neglect depth information, which hurts similarity matching, results in attention distractions in shallow depth-of-field (DoF) scenarios, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junyi He , Liuling Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Zhang xiaoxing , Xiaobin Zhu , Shengxiang Yu , Jingyan Qin , Xu-Cheng Yin

Deep neural decision forest (NDF) achieved remarkable performance on various vision tasks via combining decision tree and deep representation learning. In this work, we first trace the decision-making process of this model and visualize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Shichao Li , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Neural networks have proved to be very robust at processing unstructured data like images, text, videos, and audio. However, it has been observed that their performance is not up to the mark in tabular data; hence tree-based models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Tushar Sarkar

We propose a novel, brain-inspired deep neural network model known as the Deep Oscillatory Neural Network (DONN). Deep neural networks like the Recurrent Neural Networks indeed possess sequence processing capabilities but the internal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Nurani Rajagopal Rohan , Vigneswaran C , Sayan Ghosh , Kishore Rajendran , Gaurav A , V Srinivasa Chakravarthy

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-driven framework to address the longstanding generalization challenge in adaptive filtering (AF). In contrast to traditional AF frameworks that emphasize explicit cost function design, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Qizhen Wang , Gang Wang , Ying-Chang Liang

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have gained progressive momentum in many areas of machine learning. The layer-by-layer process of DNNs has inspired the development of many deep models, including deep ensembles. The most notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Anh Vu Luong , Tien Thanh Nguyen , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Tree-based machine learning techniques, such as Decision Trees and Random Forests, are top performers in several domains as they do well with limited training datasets and offer improved interpretability compared to Deep Neural Networks…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Giacomo Pedretti , Catherine E. Graves , Can Li , Sergey Serebryakov , Xia Sheng , Martin Foltin , Ruibin Mao , John Paul Strachan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved impressive success across a wide range of real-world vision and language processing tasks, spanning from image classification to many other downstream vision tasks, such as object…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Hao Kong , Shuo Huai , Hui Chen , Guochu Xiong , Weichen Liu

Our proposed deeply-supervised nets (DSN) method simultaneously minimizes classification error while making the learning process of hidden layers direct and transparent. We make an attempt to boost the classification performance by studying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-26 Chen-Yu Lee , Saining Xie , Patrick Gallagher , Zhengyou Zhang , Zhuowen Tu

Modern machine learning tools such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing a revolutionary role in many fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, and the internet of things. Once they are trained, deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun Parthasarathy , Bhaskar Krishnamachari