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We propose to optimize the activation functions of a deep neural network by adding a corresponding functional regularization to the cost function. We justify the use of a second-order total-variation criterion. This allows us to derive a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-04 Michael Unser

Tensor network (TN), a young mathematical tool of high vitality and great potential, has been undergoing extremely rapid developments in the last two decades, gaining tremendous success in condensed matter physics, atomic physics, quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Shi-Ju Ran , Emanuele Tirrito , Cheng Peng , Xi Chen , Luca Tagliacozzo , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

The unification of symbolic reasoning and neural networks remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence. Symbolic systems offer reliability and interpretability but lack scalability, while neural networks provide learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Swapn Shah , Wlodek Zadrozny

Neural networks are powerful tools for cognitive modeling due to their flexibility and emergent properties. However, interpreting their learned representations remains challenging due to their sub-symbolic semantics. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrew Nam , Declan Campbell , Thomas Griffiths , Jonathan Cohen , Sarah-Jane Leslie

The goal of neuro-symbolic AI is to integrate symbolic and subsymbolic AI approaches, to overcome the limitations of either. Prominent systems include Logic Tensor Networks (LTN) or DeepProbLog, which offer neural predicates and end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Stephen Roth , Lennart Baur , Derian Boer , Stefan Kramer

Compositional generalization remains a foundational weakness of modern neural networks, limiting their robustness and applicability in domains requiring out-of-distribution reasoning. A central, yet unverified, assumption in neuro-symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mahnoor Shahid , Hannes Rothe

Tensor data are increasingly available in many application domains. We develop several tensor decomposition methods for binary tensor data. Different from classical tensor decompositions for continuous-valued data with squared error loss,…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-30 Jianhao Zhang , Yoonkyung Lee

Identifying governing equations for a dynamical system is a topic of critical interest across an array of disciplines, from mathematics to engineering to biology. Machine learning -- specifically deep learning -- techniques have shown their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Nibodh Boddupalli , Timothy Matchen , Jeff Moehlis

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across industries, driven by advances in deep learning and natural language processing, and fueled by large-scale data and computing resources. Despite its rapid adoption,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Sebastian Seidel , Uwe M. Borghoff

In this paper, we extend the analysis of random Kronecker graphs to multi-dimensional networks represented as tensors, enabling a more detailed and nuanced understanding of complex network structures. We decompose the adjacency tensor of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Sanaa Khobizy

Tensor decomposition methods are widely used for model compression and fast inference in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although many decompositions are conceivable, only CP decomposition and a few others have been applied in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kohei Hayashi , Taiki Yamaguchi , Yohei Sugawara , Shin-ichi Maeda

Tensor networks (TNs) enable compact representations of large tensors through shared parameters. Their use in probabilistic modeling is particularly appealing, as probabilistic tensor networks (PTNs) allow for tractable computation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Marawan Gamal Abdel Hameed , Guillaume Rabusseau

The current understanding of deep neural networks can only partially explain how input structure, network parameters and optimization algorithms jointly contribute to achieve the strong generalization power that is typically observed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Francesco Craighero , Fabrizio Angaroni , Alex Graudenzi , Fabio Stella , Marco Antoniotti

Tensor decompositions such as the canonical format and the tensor train format have been widely utilized to reduce storage costs and operational complexities for high-dimensional data, achieving linear scaling with the input dimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Oscar Mickelin , Sertac Karaman

Activation functions (AFs) are an important part of the design of neural networks (NNs), and their choice plays a predominant role in the performance of a NN. In this work, we are particularly interested in the estimation of flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yassine Zniyed , Konstantin Usevich , Sebastian Miron , David Brie

Intelligent systems based on first-order logic on the one hand, and on artificial neural networks (also called connectionist systems) on the other, differ substantially. It would be very desirable to combine the robust neural networking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sebastian Bader , Pascal Hitzler , Steffen Hoelldobler

Topological deep learning is a formalism that is aimed at introducing topological language to deep learning for the purpose of utilizing the minimal mathematical structures to formalize problems that arise in a generic deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Mustafa Hajij , Kyle Istvan

We present a neurosymbolic approach, i.e., combining symbolic and subsymbolic artificial intelligence, to validating offer documents in regulated public institutions. We employ a language model to extract information and then aggregate with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cedric Haufe , Frieder Stolzenburg

Tensor methods have become a promising tool to solve high-dimensional problems in the big data era. By exploiting possible low-rank tensor factorization, many high-dimensional model-based or data-driven problems can be solved to facilitate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Chunfeng Cui , Cole Hawkins , Zheng Zhang

Neural networks can be regarded as a new programming paradigm, i.e., instead of building ever-more complex programs through (often informal) logical reasoning in the programmers' mind, complex 'AI' systems are built by optimising generic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Richard Schumi , Jun Sun