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Dropout is a simple but efficient regularization technique for achieving better generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs); hence it is widely used in tasks based on DNNs. During training, dropout randomly discards a portion of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hiroshi Inoue

Early detection of incipient faults is of vital importance to reducing maintenance costs, saving energy, and enhancing occupant comfort in buildings. Popular supervised learning models such as deep neural networks are considered promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Baihong Jin , Dan Li , Seshadhri Srinivasan , See-Kiong Ng , Kameshwar Poolla , Alberto~Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Deep neural networks have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance for feature-based image matching through the advent of new large and diverse datasets. However, there has been little work on evaluating the computational cost, model size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Roy Miles , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Multilayer switch networks are proposed as artificial generators of high-dimensional discrete data (e.g., binary vectors, categorical data, natural language, network log files, and discrete-valued time series). Unlike deconvolution networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Payam Delgosha , Naveen Goela

Among the various options to estimate uncertainty in deep neural networks, Monte-Carlo dropout is widely popular for its simplicity and effectiveness. However the quality of the uncertainty estimated through this method varies and choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Neural networks are widely used for image-related tasks but typically demand considerable computing power. Once a network has been trained, however, its memory- and compute-footprint can be reduced by compression. In this work, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Alper Kalle , Theo Rudkiewicz , Mohamed-Oumar Ouerfelli , Mohamed Tamaazousti

In this report, we present qualitative analysis of Monte Carlo (MC) dropout method for measuring model uncertainty in neural network (NN) models. We first consider the sources of uncertainty in NNs, and briefly review Bayesian Neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Ronald Seoh

Using a large number of parameters , deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on computer vison and natural language processing tasks. However the networks usually suffer from overfitting by using too much parameters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Zhengsu Chen Jianwei Niu Qi Tian

Deep neural networks tend to underestimate uncertainty and produce overly confident predictions. Recently proposed solutions, such as MC Dropout and SDENet, require complex training and/or auxiliary out-of-distribution data. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Akib Mashrur , Wei Luo , Nayyar A. Zaidi , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Link prediction is central to unraveling social network evolution and node relationships, as well as understanding the characteristic mechanisms of complex networks. Currently, research on link prediction for complex dynamic networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Gaoxin Zhang , Ruixing Ren , Junhui Zhao , Xiaoke Sun

Uncertainty quantification of machine learning and deep learning methods plays an important role in enhancing trust to the obtained result. In recent years, a numerous number of uncertainty quantification methods have been introduced. Monte…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Afshar Shamsi , Hamzeh Asgharnezhad , AmirReza Tajally , Saeid Nahavandi , Henry Leung

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have become a popular approach for dimensionality reduction. However, despite their ability to identify latent low-dimensional structures embedded within high-dimensional data, these latent representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-27 Kaspar Märtens , Christopher Yau

Recently, dropout has seen increasing use in deep learning. For deep convolutional neural networks, dropout is known to work well in fully-connected layers. However, its effect in convolutional and pooling layers is still not clear. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Haibing Wu , Xiaodong Gu

In this work we contribute a distribution shift benchmark for a computer vision task; monocular depth estimation. Our differentiation is the decomposition of the wider distribution shift of uncontrolled testing on in-the-wild data, to three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Georgios Albanis , Nikolaos Zioulis , Petros Drakoulis , Federico Alvarez , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Reliable uncertainty estimation is crucial for machine learning models, especially in safety-critical domains. While exact Bayesian inference offers a principled approach, it is often computationally infeasible for deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Aslak Djupskås , Alexander Johannes Stasik , Signe Riemer-Sørensen

CNNs achieve remarkable performance by leveraging deep, over-parametrized architectures, trained on large datasets. However, they have limited generalization ability to data outside the training domain, and a lack of robustness to noise and…

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

We use a mean-field-based transformer model to theoretically investigate how auxiliary variables, such as positional encoding, prevent mode collapse of self-attention mechanisms. The use of mean-field transformers to analyze the properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Masaaki Imaizumi , Masanori Koyama , Noboru Isobe , Kohei Hayashi

This paper presents a new version of Dropout called Split Dropout (sDropout) and rotational convolution techniques to improve CNNs' performance on image classification. The widely used standard Dropout has advantage of preventing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Fa Wu , Peijun Hu , Dexing Kong

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved impressive empirical advancement across a wide variety of semi-supervised node classification tasks. Despite their great success, training GCNs on large graphs suffers from computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Weilin Cong , Morteza Ramezani , Mehrdad Mahdavi