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Neural network force field (NNFF) is a method for performing regression on atomic structure-force relationships, bypassing expensive quantum mechanics calculation which prevents the execution of long ab-initio quality molecular dynamics…

The effectiveness of shortcut/skip-connection has been widely verified, which inspires massive explorations on neural architecture design. This work attempts to find an effective way to design new network architectures. It is discovered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Yilin Liao , Hao Wang , Zhaoran Liu , Haozhe Li , Xinggao Liu

There exist many problem domains where the interpretability of neural network models is essential for deployment. Here we introduce a recurrent architecture composed of input-switched affine transformations - in other words an RNN without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jakob N. Foerster , Justin Gilmer , Jan Chorowski , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , David Sussillo

Injecting structure into neural networks enables learning functions that satisfy invariances with respect to subsets of inputs. For instance, when learning generative models using neural networks, it is advantageous to encode the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Asic Q. Chen , Ruian Shi , Xiang Gao , Ricardo Baptista , Rahul G. Krishnan

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

We present a novel framework for embedding hard constraint satisfaction into neural network (NN) architectures, specifically feedforward neural networks and transformers, with input-dependent affine constraints of arbitrary cardinality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yang Zhao , Jungeun Lee , Jeong hwan Jeon , Sze Zheng Yong

We introduce the Cooperative Network Architecture (CNA), a model that represents sensory signals using structured, recurrently connected networks of neurons, termed "nets." Nets are dynamically assembled from overlapping net fragments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Pascal J. Sager , Jan M. Deriu , Benjamin F. Grewe , Thilo Stadelmann , Christoph von der Malsburg

We introduce a design strategy for neural network macro-architecture based on self-similarity. Repeated application of a simple expansion rule generates deep networks whose structural layouts are precisely truncated fractals. These networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Gustav Larsson , Michael Maire , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Traditionally, the vision community has devised algorithms to estimate the distance between an original image and images that have been subject to perturbations. Inspiration was usually taken from the human visual perceptual system and how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Alexander Hepburn , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo , Ryan McConville , Raul Santos-Rodriguez

In this paper, we systematically analyze the connecting architectures of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Our main contribution is twofold: first, we present a rigorous graph-theoretic framework describing the connecting architectures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Saizheng Zhang , Yuhuai Wu , Tong Che , Zhouhan Lin , Roland Memisevic , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Yoshua Bengio

Deep neural networks exhibit remarkable performance, yet their black-box nature limits their utility in fields like healthcare where interpretability is crucial. Existing explainability approaches often sacrifice accuracy and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Linhui Huang , Sayeri Lala , Niraj K. Jha

We review neural network architectures which were motivated by Fourier series and integrals and which are referred to as Fourier neural networks. These networks are empirically evaluated in synthetic and real-world tasks. Neither of them…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Abylay Zhumekenov , Malika Uteuliyeva , Olzhas Kabdolov , Rustem Takhanov , Zhenisbek Assylbekov , Alejandro J. Castro

When we are faced with challenging image classification tasks, we often explain our reasoning by dissecting the image, and pointing out prototypical aspects of one class or another. The mounting evidence for each of the classes helps us…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Chaofan Chen , Oscar Li , Chaofan Tao , Alina Jade Barnett , Jonathan Su , Cynthia Rudin

Recent work has focused on combining kernel methods and deep learning to exploit the best of the two approaches. Here, we introduce a new architecture of neural networks in which we replace the top dense layers of standard convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Luc Giffon , Stéphane Ayache , Thierry Artières , Hachem Kadri

Despite the ubiquity of tabular data in high-stakes domains, traditional deep learning architectures often struggle to match the performance of gradient-boosted decision trees while maintaining scientific interpretability. Standard neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Fang Li

Function fitting/approximation plays a fundamental role in computer graphics and other engineering applications. While recent advances have explored neural networks to address this task, these methods often rely on architectures with many…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka

Overparameterized neural networks enjoy great representation power on complex data, and more importantly yield sufficiently smooth output, which is crucial to their generalization and robustness. Most existing function approximation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Hao Liu , Minshuo Chen , Siawpeng Er , Wenjing Liao , Tong Zhang , Tuo Zhao

Deep convolutional neural networks, assisted by architectural design strategies, make extensive use of data augmentation techniques and layers with a high number of feature maps to embed object transformations. That is highly inefficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Marcello Chiaberge

Neural network based approximate computing is a universal architecture promising to gain tremendous energy-efficiency for many error resilient applications. To guarantee the approximation quality, existing works deploy two neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Zhenghao Peng , Xuyang Chen , Chengwen Xu , Naifeng Jing , Xiaoyao Liang , Cewu Lu , Li Jiang

Over the last decade of machine learning, convolutional neural networks have been the most striking successes for feature extraction of rich sensory and high-dimensional data. While learning data representations via convolutions is already…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Christoph Angermann , Markus Haltmeier