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Oversmoothing has long been identified as a major limitation of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs): input node features are smoothed at each layer and converge to a non-informative representation, if the weights of the GNN are sufficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nicolas Keriven

Artificial neural networks are most commonly trained with the back-propagation algorithm, where the gradient for learning is provided by back-propagating the error, layer by layer, from the output layer to the hidden layers. A recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Arild Nøkland

As deep learning applications continue to deploy increasingly large artificial neural networks, the associated high energy demands are creating a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches. Optics and photonics are particularly compelling…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Nicola Dal Cin , Florian Marquardt , Clara C. Wanjura

Reversible architectures have been shown to be capable of performing on par with their non-reversible architectures, being applied in deep learning for memory savings and generative modeling. In this work, we show how reversible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Stéphane Rivaud , Louis Fournier , Thomas Pumir , Eugene Belilovsky , Michael Eickenberg , Edouard Oyallon

Deep learning involves navigating a high-dimensional loss landscape over the neural network parameter space. Over the course of training, complex computational structures form and re-form inside the neural network, leading to shifts in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jesse Hoogland , George Wang , Matthew Farrugia-Roberts , Liam Carroll , Susan Wei , Daniel Murfet

We study deep neural networks and their use in semiparametric inference. We establish novel rates of convergence for deep feedforward neural nets. Our new rates are sufficiently fast (in some cases minimax optimal) to allow us to establish…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-01-20 Max H. Farrell , Tengyuan Liang , Sanjog Misra

Fine-tuning the deep convolution neural network(CNN) using a pre-trained model helps transfer knowledge learned from larger datasets to the target task. While the accuracy could be largely improved even when the training dataset is small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Xingjian Li , Haoyi Xiong , Haozhe An , Chengzhong Xu , Dejing Dou

It is well known that deep generative models have a rich latent space, and that it is possible to smoothly manipulate their outputs by traversing this latent space. Recently, architectures have emerged that allow for more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Andrew Gambardella , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Philip H. S. Torr

Backpropagation of error (backprop) is a powerful algorithm for training machine learning architectures through end-to-end differentiation. However, backprop is often criticised for lacking biological plausibility. Recently, it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

In this paper, we consider the temporal pattern in traffic flow time series, and implement a deep learning model for traffic flow prediction. Detrending based methods decompose original flow series into trend and residual series, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Xingyuan Dai , Rui Fu , Yilun Lin , Li Li , Fei-Yue Wang

The scope of this teaching package is to make a brief induction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for people who have no previous knowledge of them. We first make a brief introduction to models of networks, for then describing in general…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Carlos Gershenson

Recently, several studies proposed methods to utilize some classes of optimization problems in designing deep neural networks to encode constraints that conventional layers cannot capture. However, these methods are still in their infancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Younghan Jeon , Minsik Lee , Jin Young Choi

This paper proposes a deep autoencoder model based on Pytorch. This algorithm introduces the idea of Pytorch into the auto-encoder, and randomly clears the input weights connected to the hidden layer neurons with a certain probability, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Junan Pan , Zhihao Zhao

Faced with continuously increasing scale of data, original back-propagation neural network based machine learning algorithm presents two non-trivial challenges: huge amount of data makes it difficult to maintain both efficiency and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Kairan Sun , Xu Wei , Gengtao Jia , Risheng Wang , Ruizhi Li

While next-token prediction (NTP) has been the standard objective for training language models, it often struggles to capture global structure in reasoning tasks. Multi-token prediction (MTP) has recently emerged as a promising alternative,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jianhao Huang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Renqiu Xia , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Weijie Su , Wei Huang

Current research in Computer Vision has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) give state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks and Computer Vision problems. The embedding of CNN, which is the internal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Axel Angel

We present a novel usage of Transformers to make image classification interpretable. Unlike mainstream classifiers that wait until the last fully connected layer to incorporate class information to make predictions, we investigate a…

Modern deep learning frameworks provide imperative, eager execution programming interfaces embedded in Python to provide a productive development experience. However, deep learning practitioners sometimes need to capture and transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 James K. Reed , Zachary DeVito , Horace He , Ansley Ussery , Jason Ansel

In conventional formulations of multilayer feedforward neural networks, the individual layers are customarily defined by explicit functions. In this paper we demonstrate that defining individual layers in a neural network \emph{implicitly}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Qianggong Zhang , Yanyang Gu , Michalkiewicz Mateusz , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

This paper provides a comprehensive and detailed derivation of the backpropagation algorithm for graph convolutional neural networks using matrix calculus. The derivation is extended to include arbitrary element-wise activation functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yen-Che Hsiao , Rongting Yue , Abhishek Dutta