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Gradients of neural networks can be computed efficiently for any architecture, but some applications require differential operators with higher time complexity. We describe a family of restricted neural network architectures that allow…

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In this paper we introduce DiffSharp, an automatic differentiation (AD) library designed with machine learning in mind. AD is a family of techniques that evaluate derivatives at machine precision with only a small constant factor of…

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This short, self-contained article seeks to introduce and survey continuous-time deep learning approaches that are based on neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs). It primarily targets readers familiar with ordinary and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Lars Ruthotto

A variety of complex biological, natural and man-made systems exhibit non-Markovian dynamics that can be modeled through fractional order differential equations, yet, we lack sample comlexity aware system identification strategies. Towards…

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To meet the demand for designing efficient neural networks with appropriate trade-offs between model performance (e.g., classification accuracy) and computational complexity, the differentiable neural architecture distillation (DNAD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xuan Rao , Bo Zhao , Derong Liu

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown unprecedented success in the field of computer vision, especially on challenging image classification tasks by relying on a universal approach, i.e., training a deep model on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Johan Phan , Massimiliano Ruocco , Francesco Scibilia

We present TaylUR, a Fortran 95 module to automatically compute the numerical values of a complex-valued function's derivatives w.r.t. several variables up to an arbitrary order in each variable, but excluding mixed derivatives. Arithmetic…

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High-dimensional tabular data lacks a natural feature order, limiting the applicability of permutation-sensitive deep learning models. We propose DynaTab, a dynamic feature ordering-enabled architecture inspired by neural rewiring. We…

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This paper proposes a methodology to calculate both the first and second derivatives of a vector function of one variable in a single computation step. The method is based on the nested application of the dual number approach for first…

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Optimization in machine learning, both theoretical and applied, is presently dominated by first-order gradient methods such as stochastic gradient descent. Second-order optimization methods, that involve second derivatives and/or second…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Rohan Anil , Vineet Gupta , Tomer Koren , Kevin Regan , Yoram Singer

The performance of deep neural networks is well-known to be sensitive to the setting of their hyperparameters. Recent advances in reverse-mode automatic differentiation allow for optimizing hyperparameters with gradients. The standard way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Jie Fu , Hongyin Luo , Jiashi Feng , Kian Hsiang Low , Tat-Seng Chua

The idea of neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) is to approximate the derivative of a function (data model) instead of the function itself. In residual networks, instead of having a discrete sequence of hidden layers, the…

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Complex design problems are common in the scientific and industrial fields. In practice, objective functions or constraints of these problems often do not have explicit formulas, and can be estimated only at a set of sampling points through…

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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) are a new class of models that transform data continuously through infinite-depth architectures. The continuous nature of NODEs has made them particularly suitable for learning the dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Alexander Norcliffe , Cristian Bodnar , Ben Day , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Liò

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) tools allow to obtain gradient information of a continuously differentiable objective function in a computationally cheap way using the so-called backward mode. It is common practice to use the same tools…

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Modeling complex systems using standard neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) often faces some essential challenges, including high computational costs and susceptibility to local optima. To address these challenges, we propose a…

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This paper introduces a scalar numerical differentiator, represented as a system of nonlinear differential equations of any high order. We derive the explicit solution for this system and demonstrate that, with a suitable choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Igor Katrichek

Data augmentation has been an indispensable tool to improve the performance of deep neural networks, however the augmentation can hardly transfer among different tasks and datasets. Consequently, a recent trend is to adopt AutoML technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Aoming Liu , Zehao Huang , Zhiwu Huang , Naiyan Wang

Training a unified model is considered to be more suitable for practical industrial anomaly detection scenarios due to its generalization ability and storage efficiency. However, this multi-class setting, which exclusively uses normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jianlong Hu , Xu Chen , Zhenye Gan , Jinlong Peng , Shengchuan Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Algorithmic differentiation (AD) allows exact computation of derivatives given only an implementation of an objective function. Although many AD tools are available, a proper and efficient implementation of AD methods is not…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Filip Šrajer , Zuzana Kukelova , Andrew Fitzgibbon