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Over the long history of machine learning, which dates back several decades, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been used mainly for sequential data and time series and generally with 1D information. Even in some rare studies on 2D…

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Finding the best neural network architecture requires significant time, resources, and human expertise. These challenges are partially addressed by neural architecture search (NAS) which is able to find the best convolutional layer or cell…

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There is a significant performance gap between Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and floating point Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We propose to improve the binary training method, by introducing a new regularization function that encourages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sajad Darabi , Mouloud Belbahri , Matthieu Courbariaux , Vahid Partovi Nia

With the continued innovations of deep neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) that more closely resemble biological brain synapses have attracted attention owing to their low power consumption.However, for continuous data values,…

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Large Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models have demonstrated success in various domains, including general text and image generation, drug discovery, and protein-RNA (ribonucleic acid) binding tasks. However, these models typically demand…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-13 Stanislav Selitskiy

Binary neural networks have attracted tremendous attention due to the efficiency for deploying them on mobile devices. Since the weak expression ability of binary weights and features, their accuracy is usually much lower than that of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Mingzhu Shen , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

The accurate segmentation of retinal blood vessels plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis and treatment of various ophthalmic diseases. Designing a network model for this task requires meticulous tuning and extensive experimentation to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Tingting Wu , Ruyi Min , Peixuan Song , Hengtao Guo , Tieyong Zeng , Feng-Lei Fan

Breast cancer is a common fatal disease for women. Early diagnosis and detection is necessary in order to improve the prognosis of breast cancer affected people. For predicting breast cancer, several automated systems are already developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Subrato Bharati , Prajoy Podder , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal

Emerged as a biology-inspired method, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the spiking nature of brain neurons and have received lots of research attention. SNNs deal with binary spikes as their activation and therefore derive extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yufei Guo , Weihang Peng , Yuanpei Chen , Liwen Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art algorithms for the processing of images. However the configuration and training of these networks is a complex task requiring deep domain knowledge, experience and much trial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Yaron Strauch , Jo Grundy

The biological neural network is a vast and diverse structure with high neural heterogeneity. Conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) primarily focus on modifying the weights of connections through training while modeling neurons as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yiting Dong , Yang Li , Yi Zeng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained huge attention as a potential energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent high-sparsity activation. However, most prior SNN methods use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda

Neural networks are powerful and flexible models that work well for many difficult learning tasks in image, speech and natural language understanding. Despite their success, neural networks are still hard to design. In this paper, we use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le

This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful…

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This paper introduces a novel optimization method for differential neural architecture search, based on the theory of prediction with expert advice. Its optimization criterion is well fitted for an architecture-selection, i.e., it minimizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Niv Nayman , Asaf Noy , Tal Ridnik , Itamar Friedman , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Neural networks (NN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. Unfortunately in applications where training data is insufficient, they are often prone to overfitting. One effective way to alleviate this problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hao Wang , Xingjian Shi , Dit-Yan Yeung

Deep neural networks (DNNs) once showed increasing alignment with primate perception and neural responses as they improved on vision benchmarks, raising hopes that advances in AI would yield better models of biological vision. However, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-29 Drew Linsley , Pinyuan Feng , Thomas Serre

Automated machine learning (AutoML) has seen a resurgence in interest with the boom of deep learning over the past decade. In particular, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has seen significant attention throughout the AutoML research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Min Shi , David A. Wilson , Xingquan Zhu , Yu Huang , Yuan Zhuang , Jianxun Liu , Yufei Tang

In the last ten years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have formed the basis of deep-learning architectures for most computer vision tasks. However, they are not necessarily optimal. For example, mathematical morphology is known to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Theodore Aouad , Hugues Talbot

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

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