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Recent research demonstrate that prediction of time series by predictive recurrent neural networks based on the noisy input generates a smooth anticipated trajectory. We examine influence of the noise component in both the training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Boris Rubinstein

Advancements in parallel processing have lead to a surge in multilayer perceptrons' (MLP) applications and deep learning in the past decades. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) give additional representational power to feedforward MLPs by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-22 Saahil Ognawala , Justin Bayer

Cortical sensory neurons are known to be highly variable, in the sense that responses evoked by identical stimuli often change dramatically from trial to trial. The origin of this variability is uncertain, but it is usually interpreted as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Gleb Basalyga , Emilio Salinas

Classical convolutional neural networks (cCNNs) are very good at categorizing objects in images. But, unlike human vision which is relatively robust to noise in images, the performance of cCNNs declines quickly as image quality worsens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Till S. Hartmann

Stochastic resonance is a non-linear phenomenon, in which the sensitivity of signal detectors can be enhanced by adding random noise to the detector input. Here, we demonstrate that noise can also improve the information flux in recurrent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-30 Patrick Krauss , Karin Prebeck , Achim Schilling , Claus Metzner

A recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is trained to predict sound samples based on audio input augmented by control parameter information for pitch, volume, and instrument identification. During the generative phase following training, audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Lonce Wyse , Muhammad Huzaifah

Noise is an inherent part of neuronal dynamics, and thus of the brain. It can be observed in neuronal activity at different spatiotemporal scales, including in neuronal membrane potentials, local field potentials, electroencephalography,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-03 Daqing Guo , Matjaz Perc , Tiejun Liu , Dezhong Yao

A recurrent neural network with noisy input is studied analytically, on the basis of a Discrete Time Master Equation. The latter is derived from a biologically realizable learning rule for the weights of the connections. In a numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Heerema , W. A. van Leeuwen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

We propose a new method to probe the learning mechanism of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) by perturbing the system using Noise Injection Nodes (NINs). These nodes inject uncorrelated noise via additional optimizable weights to existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Noam Levi , Itay Bloch , Marat Freytsis , Tomer Volansky

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are complex dynamical systems, capable of ongoing activity without any driving input. The long-term behavior of free-running RNNs, described by periodic, chaotic and fixed point attractors, is controlled by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-06 Claus Metzner , Patrick Krauss

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a key technology for applications such as automatic speech recognition or machine translation. Unlike conventional feed-forward DNNs, RNNs remember past information to improve the accuracy of future…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Franyell Silfa , Jose-Maria Arnau , Antonio González

To be effective in sequential data processing, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are required to keep track of past events by creating memories. While the relation between memories and the network's hidden state dynamics was established over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Doron Haviv , Alexander Rivkind , Omri Barak

Deep neural networks (DNNs) fail to learn effectively under label noise and have been shown to memorize random labels which affect their generalization performance. We consider learning in isolation, using one-hot encoded labels as the sole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Neural networks (NN)-based learning algorithms are strongly affected by the choices of initialization and data distribution. Different optimization strategies have been proposed for improving the learning trajectory and finding a better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yimeng Min

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are difficult to train on sequence processing tasks, not only because input noise may be amplified through feedback, but also because any inaccuracy in the weights has similar consequences as input noise. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Michael C. Mozer , Denis Kazakov , Robert V. Lindsey

This paper proposes a novel stable learning theory for recurrent neural networks (RNNs), so-called variational adaptive noise and dropout (VAND). As stabilizing factors for RNNs, noise and dropout on the internal state of RNNs have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Taisuke Kobayashi , Shingo Murata

Certain biological neurons demonstrate a remarkable capability to optimally compress the history of sensory inputs while being maximally informative about the future. In this work, we investigate if the same can be said of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhe Dong , Deniz Oktay , Ben Poole , Alexander A. Alemi

Traditional artificial neural networks consist of nodes with non-oscillatory dynamics. Biological neural networks, on the other hand, consist of oscillatory components embedded in an oscillatory environment. Motivated by this feature of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Mark A. Kramer