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Supervised classification has a theoretical optimum, Neural Collapse (NC), yet neither of its two dominant paradigms reaches it in practice. Cross entropy (CE) leaves radial degrees of freedom unconstrained and converges to a degenerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Panagiotis Koromilas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis

In many RL applications, ensuring an agent's actions adhere to constraints is crucial for safety. Most previous methods in Action-Constrained Reinforcement Learning (ACRL) employ a projection layer after the policy network to correct the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Janaka Chathuranga Brahmanage , Jiajing Ling , Akshat Kumar

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for image classification. Despite its high accuracies, CNN has been shown to be easily fooled by some adversarial examples, indicating that CNN is not robust enough for pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Hong-Ming Yang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

Neural networks (NN) perform well in diverse tasks, but sometimes produce nonsensical results to humans. Most NN models "solely" learn from (input, output) pairs, occasionally conflicting with human knowledge. Many studies indicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mooho Song , Jay-Yoon Lee

Physical laws, such as the conversation of mass and momentum, are fundamental principles in many physical systems. Neural operators have achieved promising performance in learning the solutions to those systems, but often fail to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaoyu Liu , Yangming Li , Zhongying Deng , Chris Budd , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a promising approach to solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using neural networks, particularly in data-scarce scenarios, due to their unsupervised training capability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Edgar Torres , Jonathan Schiefer , Mathias Niepert

Many physical processes such as weather phenomena or fluid mechanics are governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Modelling such dynamical systems using Neural Networks is an active research field. However, current methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Andrzej Dulny , Andreas Hotho , Anna Krause

Artificial neural-networks have the potential to emulate cloud processes with higher accuracy than the semi-empirical emulators currently used in climate models. However, neural-network models do not intrinsically conserve energy and mass,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Tom Beucler , Stephan Rasp , Michael Pritchard , Pierre Gentine

In dynamical systems reconstruction (DSR) we aim to recover the dynamical system (DS) underlying observed time series. Specifically, we aim to learn a generative surrogate model which approximates the underlying, data-generating DS, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Alena Brändle , Lukas Eisenmann , Florian Götz , Daniel Durstewitz

Throughout many fields, practitioners often rely on differential equations to model systems. Yet, for many applications, the theoretical derivation of such equations and/or accurate resolution of their solutions may be intractable. Instead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Grant Norman , Jacqueline Wentz , Hemanth Kolla , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

The use of machine learning methods helps to improve decision making in different fields. In particular, the idea of bridging predictions (machine learning models) and prescriptions (optimization problems) is gaining attention within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Antonio Alcántara , Carlos Ruiz

In many real world applications of machine learning, models have to meet certain domain-based requirements that can be expressed as constraints (e.g., safety-critical constraints in autonomous driving systems). Such constraints are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kshitij Goyal , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

Popular debiased estimation methods for causal inference -- such as augmented inverse propensity weighting and targeted maximum likelihood estimation -- enjoy desirable asymptotic properties like statistical efficiency and double robustness…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-16 Tiffany Tianhui Cai , Yuri Fonseca , Kaiwen Hou , Hongseok Namkoong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used for their ability to effectively approximate large classes of functions. This flexibility, however, makes the strict enforcement of constraints on DNNs an open problem. Here we present a framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Eric Marcus , Ray Sheombarsing , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as the dominant model in computer vision. If provided with enough training data, they predict almost any visual quantity. In a discrete setting, such as classification, CNNs are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Deepak Pathak , Philipp Krähenbühl , Stella X. Yu , Trevor Darrell

Ensuring neural networks adhere to domain-specific constraints is crucial for addressing safety and trustworthiness while also enhancing inference accuracy. Despite the nonlinear nature of most real-world tasks, the majority of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Giacomo Lastrucci , Artur M. Schweidtmann

Selecting a coherent sequence or subset of elements is a fundamental problem in structured prediction, arising in tasks such as detection, trajectory forecasting, and representative subset selection. In many such settings, the target is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Noam Mizrachi , Nadav Har-Tuv , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Neural networks often require large amounts of data to generalize and can be ill-suited for modeling small and noisy experimental datasets. Standard network architectures trained on scarce and noisy data will return predictions that violate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Gregory Barber , Mulugeta A. Haile , Tzikang Chen

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for integrating physics-based constraints and data to address forward and inverse problems in machine learning. Despite their potential, the implementation of PINNs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Alan Williams , Christopher Leon , Alexander Scheinker

Continual Learning (CL) investigates how to train Deep Networks on a stream of tasks without incurring forgetting. CL settings proposed in literature assume that every incoming example is paired with ground-truth annotations. However, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Matteo Boschini , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara