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An algorithm is devised for solving minimization problems with equality constraints. The algorithm uses first-order derivatives of both the objective function and the constraints. The step is computed as a sum between a steepest-descent…
Convolutional neural networks show outstanding results in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, a neural network architecture design usually faces a trade-off between model performance and computational/memory complexity. For some…
Optimization plays a key role in machine learning. Recently, stochastic second-order methods have attracted much attention due to their low computational cost in each iteration. However, these algorithms might perform poorly especially if…
Owing to the data explosion and rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep neural networks (DNNs), the ever-increasing demand for large-scale matrix-vector multiplication has become one of the major issues in…
The analog signals generated in the read-out electronics of radiation detectors are shaped prior to the digitization in order to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR). The real amplitude of the analog signal is then obtained using digital…
This paper introduces a dual-signal transformation LSTM network (DTLN) for real-time speech enhancement as part of the Deep Noise Suppression Challenge (DNS-Challenge). This approach combines a short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and a…
Artificial neural networks are a promising technique for virtual analog modeling, having shown particular success in emulating distortion circuits. Despite their potential, enhancements are needed to enable effect parameters to influence…
The increasing demand for high-quality digital emulations of analog audio hardware, such as vintage tube guitar amplifiers, led to numerous works on neural network-based black-box modeling, with deep learning architectures like WaveNet…
The overfitting is one of the cursing subjects in the deep learning field. To solve this challenge, many approaches were proposed to regularize the learning models. They add some hyper-parameters to the model to extend the generalization;…
Current audio deepfake detection has achieved remarkable performance using diverse deep learning architectures such as ResNet, and has seen further improvements with the introduction of large models (LMs) like Wav2Vec. The success of large…
We present novel techniques to accelerate the convergence of Deep Learning algorithms by conducting low overhead removal of redundant neurons -- apoptosis of neurons -- which do not contribute to model learning, during the training phase…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in a variety of real world applications, i.e., image classification. However, tons of parameters in the networks restrict the efficiency of neural networks due to the large model…
Mixed-signal hardware accelerators for deep learning achieve orders of magnitude better power efficiency than their digital counterparts. In the ultra-low power consumption regime, limited signal precision inherent to analog computation…
Tensor decomposition of convolutional and fully-connected layers is an effective way to reduce parameters and FLOP in neural networks. Due to memory and power consumption limitations of mobile or embedded devices, the quantization step is…
Mixed-signal artificial neural networks (ANNs) that employ analog matrix-multiplication accelerators can achieve higher speed and improved power efficiency. Though analog computing is known to be susceptible to noise and device…
Accurate noise modelling is important for training of deep learning reconstruction algorithms. While noise models are well known for traditional imaging techniques, the noise distribution of a novel sensor may be difficult to determine a…
This paper presents an implementation of multilayer feed forward neural networks (NN) to optimize CMOS analog circuits. For modeling and design recently neural network computational modules have got acceptance as an unorthodox and useful…