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Traditionally, in supervised machine learning, (a significant) part of the available data (usually 50% to 80%) is used for training and the rest for validation. In many problems, however, the data is highly imbalanced in regard to different…
We address a learning-to-normalize problem by proposing Switchable Normalization (SN), which learns to select different normalizers for different normalization layers of a deep neural network. SN employs three distinct scopes to compute…
Alongside the well-publicized accomplishments of deep neural networks there has emerged an apparent bug in their success on tasks such as object recognition: with deep models trained using vanilla methods, input images can be slightly…
In this work, we consider methods for solving large-scale optimization problems with a possibly nonsmooth objective function. The key idea is to first specify a class of optimization algorithms using a generic iterative scheme involving…
We improve the recently developed Neural DUDE, a neural network-based adaptive discrete denoiser, by combining it with the supervised learning framework. Namely, we make the supervised pre-training of Neural DUDE compatible with the…
We propose a distributed approach to train deep neural networks (DNNs), which has guaranteed convergence theoretically and great scalability empirically: close to 6 times faster on instance of ImageNet data set when run with 6 machines. The…
Thanks to the recent developments of Convolutional Neural Networks, the performance of face verification methods has increased rapidly. In a typical face verification method, feature normalization is a critical step for boosting…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) that enable low-power design on edge devices have recently attracted significant research. However, the temporal characteristic of SNNs causes high latency, high bandwidth and high energy consumption for the…
It has been proven that transfer learning provides an easy way to achieve state-of-the-art accuracies on several vision tasks by training a simple classifier on top of features obtained from pre-trained neural networks. The goal of this…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are more closely related to brain-like computation and inspire hardware implementation. This is enabled by small networks that give high performance on standard classification problems. In literature, typical…
As spiking neural networks (SNNs) are deployed increasingly in real-world efficiency critical applications, the security concerns in SNNs attract more attention. Currently, researchers have already demonstrated an SNN can be attacked with…
Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Probabilistic modeling, which consists of a classifier and a transition matrix, depicts the transformation from true labels to noisy…
Many optimizers have been proposed for training deep neural networks, and they often have multiple hyperparameters, which make it tricky to benchmark their performance. In this work, we propose a new benchmarking protocol to evaluate both…
The training process of neural networks is known to be time-consuming, and having a deep architecture only aggravates the issue. This process consists mostly of matrix operations, among which matrix multiplication is the bottleneck. Several…
The field of neuromorphic computing promises extremely low-power and low-latency sensing and processing. Challenges in transferring learning algorithms from traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) to spiking neural networks (SNNs)…
In this work, we propose an adaptive sparse learning algorithm that can be applied to learn the physical processes and obtain a sparse representation of the solution given a large snapshot space. Assume that there is a rich class of…
This paper proposes a novel, efficient transfer learning method, called Scalable Weight Reparametrization (SWR) that is efficient and effective for multiple downstream tasks. Efficient transfer learning involves utilizing a pre-trained…
The brain, as the source of inspiration for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), is based on a sparse structure. This sparse structure helps the brain to consume less energy, learn easier and generalize patterns better than any other ANN. In…
Diffusion models achieve strong generative performance but often rely on large datasets that may include sensitive content. This challenge is compounded by the models' tendency to memorize training data, raising privacy concerns. SFBD (Lu…
In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manually identifying correct or incorrect labels is…