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Quantization, a commonly used technique to reduce the memory footprint of a neural network for edge computing, entails reducing the precision of the floating-point representation used for the parameters of the network. The impact of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Abhishek Murthy , Himel Das , Md Ariful Islam

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success in language modelling due to scaling laws found in model size and the hidden dimension of the model's text representation. Yet, we demonstrate that compressed representations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Felix Drinkall , Janet B. Pierrehumbert , Stefan Zohren

We define a notion of complexity, which quantifies the nonlinearity of the computation of a neural network, as well as a complementary measure of the effective dimension of feature representations. We investigate these observables both for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Romuald A. Janik , Przemek Witaszczyk

The exponential growth in numbers of parameters of neural networks over the past years has been accompanied by an increase in performance across several fields. However, due to their sheer size, the networks not only became difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Nils Koster , Oliver Grothe , Achim Rettinger

We utilize classical facts from topology to show that the classification problem in machine learning is always solvable under very mild conditions. Furthermore, we show that a softmax classification network acts on an input topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Mustafa Hajij , Kyle Istvan

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks benefit from multi-task learning by learning a shared representation across several related tasks. However, performance of such systems depend on relative weighting between various losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Shreyas Saxena , Oncel Tuzel

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) based on vanilla Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) are widely believed to be incapable of representing high-frequency content. This has directed research efforts towards architectural interventions, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Julian McGinnis , Florian A. Hölzl , Suprosanna Shit , Florentin Bieder , Paul Friedrich , Mark Mühlau , Björn Menze , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

Deep learning models are increasingly used for radiographic analysis, but their reliability is challenged by the stochastic noise inherent in clinical imaging. A systematic, cross-task understanding of how different noise types impact these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Derek Jiu , Kiran Nijjer , Nishant Chinta , Ryan Bui , Kevin Zhu

This work extends the theory of identifiability in supervised learning by considering the consequences of having access to a distribution of tasks. In such cases, we show that linear identifiability is achievable in the general multi-task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Wenlin Chen , Julien Horwood , Juyeon Heo , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Despite the impressive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs), their computational complexity and storage space consumption have led to the concept of network compression. While DNN compression techniques such as pruning and low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mahsa Mozafari-Nia , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

While generalizing well over natural inputs, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Existing defenses against adversarial inputs have largely been detached from the real world. These defenses also come at a cost to accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Varun Chandrasekaran , Brian Tang , Nicolas Papernot , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Xi Wu

A common assumption about neural networks is that they can learn an appropriate internal representations on their own, see e.g. end-to-end learning. In this work we challenge this assumption. We consider two simple tasks and show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Krisztian Buza

We introduce a method to train Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - neural networks with binary weights and activations at run-time. At training-time the binary weights and activations are used for computing the parameters gradients. During…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Matthieu Courbariaux , Itay Hubara , Daniel Soudry , Ran El-Yaniv , Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning has been wildly successful in practice and most state-of-the-art machine learning methods are based on neural networks. Lacking, however, is a rigorous mathematical theory that adequately explains the amazing performance of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

Modeling natural phenomena with artificial neural networks (ANNs) often provides highly accurate predictions. However, ANNs often suffer from over-parameterization, complicating interpretation and raising uncertainty issues. Bayesian neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-14 Eirik Høyheim , Lars Skaaret-Lund , Solve Sæbø , Aliaksandr Hubin

Many real-life planning problems require making a priori decisions before all parameters of the problem have been revealed. An important special case of such problem arises in scheduling problems, where a set of tasks needs to be assigned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-11 David Adjiashvili , Viktor Bindewald , Dennis Michaels

While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt

Deep learning models have proven enormously successful at using multiple layers of representation to learn relevant features of structured data. Encoding physical symmetries into these models can improve performance on difficult tasks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Cassidy Ashworth , Pietro Liò , Francesco Caso

In this work we explore the information processing inside neural networks using logistic regression probes \cite{probes} and the saturation metric \cite{featurespace_saturation}. We show that problem difficulty and neural network capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mats L. Richter , Leila Malihi , Anne-Kathrin Patricia Windler , Ulf Krumnack

Stochasticity and limited precision of synaptic weights in neural network models are key aspects of both biological and hardware modeling of learning processes. Here we show that a neural network model with stochastic binary weights…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 Carlo Baldassi , Federica Gerace , Hilbert J. Kappen , Carlo Lucibello , Luca Saglietti , Enzo Tartaglione , Riccardo Zecchina