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In quantum mechanics, a norm squared wave function can be interpreted as the probability density that describes the likelihood of a particle to be measured in a given position or momentum. This statistical property is at the core of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ying-Tao Luo , Peng-Qi Li , Dong-Ting Li , Yu-Gui Peng , Zhi-Guo Geng , Shu-Huan Xie , Yong Li , Andrea Alu , Jie Zhu , Xue-Feng Zhu

Deep neural networks are powerful machine learning approaches that have exhibited excellent results on many classification tasks. However, they are considered as black boxes and some of their properties remain to be formalized. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Nizar Ouarti , David Carmona

We develop Structured-Knowledge-Informed Neural Networks (SKINNs), a unified estimation framework that embeds theoretical, simulated, previously learned, or cross-domain insights as differentiable constraints within flexible neural function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Yi Cao , Zexun Chen , Lin William Cong , Heqing Shi

Neural collapse (NC) describes the structured geometry that emerges in the features and weights of trained classifiers. Recent theory suggests NC can be suboptimal in deep architectures, attributing this to an explicit low-rank bias from L2…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Connall Garrod , Jonathan P. Keating , Christos Thrampoulidis

In the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), fine-grained vehicle classification systems play an essential role. Recently, the authors have presented a novel vision-based classification approach in which standard end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Andreas Caduff , Klaus Zahn , Jonas Hofstetter , Martin Rechsteiner , Patrick Flaig

Although physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have shown great potential in dealing with nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), it is common that PINNs will suffer from the problem of insufficient precision or obtaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Feilong Jiang , Xiaonan Hou , Min Xia

A challenging problem in many modern machine learning tasks is to process weight-space features, i.e., to transform or extract information from the weights and gradients of a neural network. Recent works have developed promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Allan Zhou , Chelsea Finn , James Harrison

Probabilistic graphical models are a central tool in AI; however, they are generally not as expressive as deep neural models, and inference is notoriously hard and slow. In contrast, deep probabilistic models such as sum-product networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xiaoting Shao , Alejandro Molina , Antonio Vergari , Karl Stelzner , Robert Peharz , Thomas Liebig , Kristian Kersting

The learned weights of a neural network are often considered devoid of scrutable internal structure. To discern structure in these weights, we introduce a measurable notion of modularity for multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), and investigate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Daniel Filan , Shlomi Hod , Cody Wild , Andrew Critch , Stuart Russell

Neural networks excel across a wide range of tasks, yet remain black boxes. In particular, how their internal representations are shaped by the complexity of the input data and the problems they solve remains obscure. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Robert Jankowski , Filippo Radicchi , M. Ángeles Serrano , Marián Boguñá , Santo Fortunato

Sum-Product Networks (SPNs) are a class of expressive yet tractable hierarchical graphical models. LearnSPN is a structure learning algorithm for SPNs that uses hierarchical co-clustering to simultaneously identifying similar entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Viktoriya Krakovna , Moshe Looks

Semantic segmentation networks (SSNs) are central to safety-critical applications such as medical imaging and autonomous driving, where robustness under uncertainty is essential. However, existing probabilistic verification methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Navid Hashemi , Samuel Sasaki , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Lars Lindemann , Ipek Oguz , Meiyi Ma , Taylor T. Johnson

In a series of recent works, we have generalised the consistency results in the stochastic block model literature to the case of uniform and non-uniform hypergraphs. The present paper continues the same line of study, where we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Ambedkar Dukkipati

A neural network with the widely-used ReLU activation has been shown to partition the sample space into many convex polytopes for prediction. However, the parameterized way a neural network and other machine learning models use to partition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dayang Wang , Feng-Lei Fan , Bo-Jian Hou , Hao Zhang , Zhen Jia , Boce Zhou , Rongjie Lai , Hengyong Yu , Fei Wang

A key challenge in complex visuomotor control is learning abstract representations that are effective for specifying goals, planning, and generalization. To this end, we introduce universal planning networks (UPN). UPNs embed differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Aravind Srinivas , Allan Jabri , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Partition of unity methods (PUMs) on graphs are simple and highly adaptive auxiliary tools for graph signal processing. Based on a greedy-type metric clustering and augmentation scheme, we show how a partition of unity can be generated in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Wolfgang Erb

Representing shapes as level sets of neural networks has been recently proved to be useful for different shape analysis and reconstruction tasks. So far, such representations were computed using either: (i) pre-computed implicit shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Amos Gropp , Lior Yariv , Niv Haim , Matan Atzmon , Yaron Lipman

Network pruning, which removes less important parameters or architectures, is often expected to improve efficiency while preserving performance. However, this expectation does not consistently hold across language tasks: pruned models can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Shwai He , Guoheng Sun , Haichao Zhang , Yun Fu , Ang Li

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) has the potential to enhance the transparency and trust of AI-based systems. Although accurate predictions can be made using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the process used to arrive at such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Bhushan Atote , Victor Sanchez