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Neural networks (NNs) achieve outstanding performance in many domains; however, their decision processes are often opaque and their inference can be computationally expensive in resource-constrained environments. We recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

We address a learning-to-normalize problem by proposing Switchable Normalization (SN), which learns to select different normalizers for different normalization layers of a deep neural network. SN employs three distinct scopes to compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Ping Luo , Ruimao Zhang , Jiamin Ren , Zhanglin Peng , Jingyu Li

Trained with a sufficiently large training and testing dataset, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are expected to generalize. However, inputs may deviate from the training dataset distribution in real deployments. This is a fundamental issue with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Ivan Beschastnikh , Changsheng Sun , David S. Rosenblum , Jin Song Dong

Deep learning models offer superior performance compared to other machine learning techniques for a variety of tasks and domains, but pose their own challenges. In particular, deep learning models require larger training times as the depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sunitha Basodi , Krishna Pusuluri , Xueli Xiao , Yi Pan

In deep learning models, learning more with less data is becoming more important. This paper explores how neural networks with normalized Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernels can be trained to achieve better sample efficiency. Moreover, we…

The lack of transparency of neural networks stays a major break for their use. The Layerwise Relevance Propagation technique builds heat-maps representing the relevance of each input in the model s decision. The relevance spreads backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Mathilde Guillemot , Catherine Heusele , Rodolphe Korichi , Sylvianne Schnebert , Liming Chen

Learning to reconstruct depths in a single image by watching unlabeled videos via deep convolutional network (DCN) is attracting significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a surface normal representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Wei Xu , Liang Zhao , Ramakant Nevatia

We introduce the Normalized Matching Transformer (NMT), a deep learning approach for efficient and accurate sparse semantic keypoint matching between image pairs. NMT consists of a strong visual backbone, geometric feature refinement via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Abtin Pourhadi , Paul Swoboda

Model-based methods and deep neural networks have both been tremendously successful paradigms in machine learning. In model-based methods, problem domain knowledge can be built into the constraints of the model, typically at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-21 John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Felix Weninger

This work proposes a new framework for deep learning that has been particularly tailored for hyperspectral image classification. We learn multiple levels of dictionaries in a robust fashion. The last layer is discriminative that learns a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Vanika Singhal , Hemant K. Aggarwal , Snigdha Tariyal , Angshul Majumdar

Multi-label recognition is a fundamental, and yet is a challenging task in computer vision. Recently, deep learning models have achieved great progress towards learning discriminative features from input images. However, conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Salman Khan , Murat Tahtali

In supervised learning, it is known that overparameterized neural networks with one hidden layer provably and efficiently learn and generalize, when trained using stochastic gradient descent with a sufficiently small learning rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Kulin Shah , Amit Deshpande , Navin Goyal

We develop a new method for regularising neural networks. We learn a probability distribution over the activations of all layers of the model and then insert imputed values into the network during training. We obtain a posterior for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

Layer normalization (LayerNorm) is a technique to normalize the distributions of intermediate layers. It enables smoother gradients, faster training, and better generalization accuracy. However, it is still unclear where the effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jingjing Xu , Xu Sun , Zhiyuan Zhang , Guangxiang Zhao , Junyang Lin

A widely used algorithm for transfer learning is fine-tuning, where a pre-trained model is fine-tuned on a target task with a small amount of labeled data. When the capacity of the pre-trained model is significantly larger than the size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Dongyue Li , Hongyang R. Zhang

Layer normalization (LN) is a fundamental component in modern deep learning, but its per-sample centering and scaling introduce non-negligible inference overhead. RMSNorm improves efficiency by removing the centering operation, yet this may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxin Guo , Yihao Yue , Yunhao Ni , Yizhou Ruan , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in a variety of computer vision tasks, where massive labeled images are routinely required for model optimization. Yet, the data collected from the open world are unavoidably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Peng Cui , Yang Yue , Zhijie Deng , Jun Zhu

Signal denoising is a key preprocessing step for many applications, as the performance of a learning task is closely related to the quality of the input data. In this paper, we apply a signal processing based deep neural network…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Gaetan Frusque , Olga Fink

Deep learning has demonstrated remarkable achievements in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing deep learning models struggle with poor generalization due to (i) intra-class variations, where the same class appears differently in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Vandan Gorade , Sparsh Mittal , Debesh Jha , Rekha Singhal , Ulas Bagci

Saliency methods have been widely used to highlight important input features in model predictions. Most existing methods use backpropagation on a modified gradient function to generate saliency maps. Thus, noisy gradients can result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Héctor Corrada Bravo , Soheil Feizi