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Yes, they do. This work investigates a perspective for deep learning: whether different normalization layers in a ConvNet require different normalizers. This is the first step towards understanding this phenomenon. We allow each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Ping Luo , Zhanglin Peng , Jiamin Ren , Ruimao Zhang

Machine learning models trained by different optimization algorithms under different data distributions can exhibit distinct generalization behaviors. In this paper, we analyze the generalization of models trained by noisy iterative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-29 Hao Wang , Rui Gao , Flavio P. Calmon

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are becoming increasingly popular models to predict neural responses in visual cortex. However, contextual effects, which are prevalent in neural processing and in perception, are not explicitly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-27 Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo , Odelia Schwartz

The lack of transparency of neural networks stays a major break for their use. The Layerwise Relevance Propagation technique builds heat-maps representing the relevance of each input in the model s decision. The relevance spreads backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Mathilde Guillemot , Catherine Heusele , Rodolphe Korichi , Sylvianne Schnebert , Liming Chen

The normal distribution plays a central role in information theory - it is at the same time the best-case signal and worst-case noise distribution, has the greatest representational capacity of any distribution, and offers an equivalence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Daniel Eftekhari , Vardan Papyan

This paper presents a novel method for synthesizing new physical layer modulation and coding schemes for communications systems using a learning-based approach which does not require an analytic model of the impairments in the channel. It…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-09 Timothy J. O'Shea , Tamoghna Roy , Nathan West , Benjamin C. Hilburn

Stacking non-linear layers allows deep neural networks to model complicated functions, and including residual connections in Transformer layers is beneficial for convergence and performance. However, residual connections may make the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hongfei Xu , Yang Song , Qiuhui Liu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong

Robotic manipulation can be formulated as inducing a sequence of spatial displacements: where the space being moved can encompass an object, part of an object, or end effector. In this work, we propose the Transporter Network, a simple…

Data-driven optimization of transmitters and receivers can reveal new modulation and detection schemes and enable physical-layer communication over unknown channels. Previous work has shown that practical implementations of this approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jinxiang Song , Bile Peng , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch , Anant Sahai

Transparent image layer generation plays a significant role in digital art and design workflows. Existing methods typically decompose transparent layers from a single RGB image using a set of tools or generate multiple transparent layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dingbang Huang , Wenbo Li , Yifei Zhao , Xinyu Pan , Chun Wang , Yanhong Zeng , Bo Dai

Spherical multi-layered structures are prevalent in numerous biological systems and engineered applications, including tumor spheroids, layered tissues, and multi-shell nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Despite their widespread…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mitra Rezaei , Michael Chappell , Adam Noel

Diffusion models, which learn to reverse a signal destruction process to generate new data, typically require the signal at each step to have the same dimension. We argue that, considering the spatial redundancy in image signals, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Han Zhang , Ruili Feng , Zhantao Yang , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Yifei Zhang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Fan Cheng

We present recurrent transformer networks (RTNs) for obtaining dense correspondences between semantically similar images. Our networks accomplish this through an iterative process of estimating spatial transformations between the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Seungryong Kim , Stephen Lin , Sangryul Jeon , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn

In the paper we show that there is an analogy between the operations occurring in a layer of a transformer (projections and layer normalizations, disregarding the feedforward neural network) and a step in the power method. Coherently with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chenglong Li , Claudio Altafini

As NNs permeate various scientific and industrial domains, understanding the universality and reusability of their representations becomes crucial. At their core, these networks create intermediate neural representations, indicated as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Luca Moschella

Imitation can allow us to quickly gain an understanding of a new task. Through a demonstration, we can gain direct knowledge about which actions need to be performed and which goals they have. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

In the near future, more and more machines will perform tasks in the vicinity of human spaces or support them directly in their spatially bound activities. In order to simplify the verbal communication and the interaction between robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sebastian Feld , Steffen Illium , Andreas Sedlmeier , Lenz Belzner

Here, I present a novel method for normalizing a finite set of numbers, which is studied by the domain of biological vision. Normalizing in this context means searching the maximum and minimum number in a set and then rescaling all numbers…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-09-19 Matthias S. Keil

Language is an effective medium for bi-directional communication in human-robot teams. To infer the meaning of many instructions, robots need to construct a model of their surroundings that describe the spatial, semantic, and metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ethan Fahnestock , Siddharth Patki , Thomas M. Howard