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Weight initialization plays an important role in training neural networks and also affects tremendous deep learning applications. Various weight initialization strategies have already been developed for different activation functions with…

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We propose a new physics-informed neural network framework, IDPINN, based on the enhancement of initialization and domain decomposition to improve prediction accuracy. We train a PINN using a small dataset to obtain an initial network…

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Continuous neural representations have recently emerged as a powerful and flexible alternative to classical discretized representations of signals. However, training them to capture fine details in multi-scale signals is difficult and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Sifan Wang , Hanwen Wang , Jacob H. Seidman , Paris Perdikaris

Recent advances have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) excel as listwise rerankers, but their high computational demands remain a barrier to widespread adoption. Further, the traditional language modeling (LM) objective is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zijian Chen , Ronak Pradeep , Jimmy Lin

Weight initialization plays a crucial role in the optimization behavior and convergence efficiency of neural networks. Most existing initialization methods, such as Xavier and Kaiming initializations, rely on random sampling and do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Training a high-quality deep neural network requires choosing suitable hyperparameters, which is a non-trivial and expensive process. Current works try to automatically optimize or design principles of hyperparameters, such that they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Wuyang Chen , Junru Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Boris Hanin

Machine learning models can reach high performance on benchmark natural language processing (NLP) datasets but fail in more challenging settings. We study this issue when a pre-trained model learns dataset artifacts in natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhenyuan Lu

Multilayer networks have seen a resurgence under the umbrella of deep learning. Current deep learning algorithms train the layers of the network sequentially, improving algorithmic performance as well as providing some regularization. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ke Wu , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch requires immense computational resources, making it prohibitively expensive. Model scaling-up offers a promising solution by leveraging the parameters of smaller models to create larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yifei Yang , Zouying Cao , Xinbei Ma , Yao Yao , Libo Qin , Zhi Chen , Hai Zhao

We propose a new per-layer adaptive step-size procedure for stochastic first-order optimization methods for minimizing empirical loss functions in deep learning, eliminating the need for the user to tune the learning rate (LR). The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Achraf Bahamou , Donald Goldfarb

The time required for training the neural networks increases with size, complexity, and depth. Training model parameters by backpropagation inherently creates feedback loops. These loops hinder efficient pipelining and scheduling of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Nanda K. Unnikrishnan , Keshab K. Parhi

Error backpropagation is a highly effective mechanism for learning high-quality hierarchical features in deep networks. Updating the features or weights in one layer, however, requires waiting for the propagation of error signals from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hesham Mostafa , Vishwajith Ramesh , Gert Cauwenberghs

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered significant attention as a central paradigm in neuromorphic computing, owing to their energy efficiency and biological plausibility. However, training deep SNNs has critically depended on…

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Unsupervised learning methods have recently shown their competitiveness against supervised training. Typically, these methods use a single objective to train the entire network. But one distinct advantage of unsupervised over supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Zefan Li , Chenxi Liu , Alan Yuille , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang , Wen Gao

Training a neural network (NN) depends on multiple factors, including but not limited to the initial weights. In this paper, we focus on initializing deep NN parameters such that it performs better, comparing to random or zero…

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Symbol level precoding (SLP) has been proven to be an effective means of managing the interference in a multiuser downlink transmission and also enhancing the received signal power. This paper proposes an unsupervised learning based SLP…

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In recent years, newly developed methods to train spiking neural networks (SNNs) have rendered them as a plausible alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in terms of accuracy, while at the same time being much more energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Nicolas Perez-Nieves , Dan F. M Goodman

In this work a novel, automated process for constructing and initializing deep feed-forward neural networks based on decision trees is presented. The proposed algorithm maps a collection of decision trees trained on the data into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 K. D. Humbird , J. L. Peterson , R. G. McClarren

With the prevalence of the Pretraining-Finetuning paradigm in transfer learning, the robustness of downstream tasks has become a critical concern. In this work, we delve into adversarial robustness in transfer learning and reveal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andong Hua , Jindong Gu , Zhiyu Xue , Nicholas Carlini , Eric Wong , Yao Qin

Pruning enables appealing reductions in network memory footprint and time complexity. Conventional post-training pruning techniques lean towards efficient inference while overlooking the heavy computation for training. Recent exploration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Maying Shen , Pavlo Molchanov , Hongxu Yin , Jose M. Alvarez