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Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is a cornerstone of modern machine learning (ML), supported by advances in optimization theory that ensure efficient solutions with provable algorithmic and statistical learning rates. Privacy, memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Cheng Fang , Rishabh Dixit , Waheed U. Bajwa , Mert Gurbuzbalaban

We investigate recurrent neural networks with asymmetric interactions and demonstrate that the inclusion of self-couplings or sparse excitatory inter-module connections leads to the emergence of a densely connected manifold of dynamically…

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In this paper, we present a novel neural network for MIMO symbol detection. It is motivated by several important considerations in wireless communication systems; permutation equivariance and a variable number of users. The neural detector…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Kumar Pratik , Bhaskar D. Rao , Max Welling

Applying convolutional neural networks to large images is computationally expensive because the amount of computation scales linearly with the number of image pixels. We present a novel recurrent neural network model that is capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Volodymyr Mnih , Nicolas Heess , Alex Graves , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Training large language models (LLMs) typically involves pre-training on massive corpora, only to restart the process entirely when new data becomes available. A more efficient and resource-conserving approach would be continual…

Brain-like intelligent systems need brain-like learning methods. Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically plausible learning framework with strong potential for brain-inspired computing hardware. However, existing im-plementations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhuo Liu , Tao Chen

This paper proposes a method to construct pretext tasks for self-supervised learning on group equivariant neural networks. Group equivariant neural networks are the models whose structure is restricted to commute with the transformations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Gradient-based meta-learning methods leverage gradient descent to learn the commonalities among various tasks. While previous such methods have been successful in meta-learning tasks, they resort to simple gradient descent during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Yoonho Lee , Seungjin Choi

Distributions of data or sensory stimuli often enjoy underlying invariances. How and to what extent those symmetries are captured by unsupervised learning methods is a relevant question in machine learning and in computational neuroscience.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-24 Moshir Harsh , Jérôme Tubiana , Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

Cortical neurons are complex, multi-timescale processors wired into recurrent circuits, shaped by long evolutionary pressure under stringent biological constraints. Mainstream machine learning, by contrast, predominantly builds models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Aaron Spieler , Georg Martius , Anna Levina

Sophisticated multilayer neural networks have achieved state of the art results on multiple supervised tasks. However, successful applications of such multilayer networks to control have so far been limited largely to the perception portion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Sergey Levine

Lifelong learning, the problem of continual learning where tasks arrive in sequence, has been lately attracting more attention in the computer vision community. The aim of lifelong learning is to develop a system that can learn new tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Jie Zhang , Junting Zhang , Shalini Ghosh , Dawei Li , Jingwen Zhu , Heming Zhang , Yalin Wang

Purpose: To systematically investigate the influence of various data consistency layers, (semi-)supervised learning and ensembling strategies, defined in a $\Sigma$-net, for accelerated parallel MR image reconstruction using deep learning.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-20 Kerstin Hammernik , Jo Schlemper , Chen Qin , Jinming Duan , Ronald M. Summers , Daniel Rueckert

At the core of self-supervised learning for vision is the idea of learning invariant or equivariant representations with respect to a set of data transformations. This approach, however, introduces strong inductive biases, which can render…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Sharut Gupta , Chenyu Wang , Yifei Wang , Tommi Jaakkola , Stefanie Jegelka

In many real-world applications of regression, conditional probability estimation, and uncertainty quantification, exploiting symmetries rooted in physics or geometry can dramatically improve generalization and sample efficiency. While…

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Reinforcement learning (RL) enables an agent interacting with an unknown MDP $M$ to optimise its behaviour by observing transitions sampled from $M$. A natural entity that emerges in the agent's reasoning is $\widehat{M}$, the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan , Sheel Shah , Santhosh Kumar Guguloth

Reinforcement learning is a popular machine learning paradigm which can find near optimal solutions to complex problems. Most often, these procedures involve function approximation using neural networks with gradient based updates to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Callum Wilson , Annalisa Riccardi , Edmondo Minisci

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) hold great potential for advancing artificial general intelligence, as they draw inspiration from the biological nervous system and show promise in modeling complex dynamics. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Guan Wang , Yuhao Sun , Sijie Cheng , Sen Song

We study a class of constrained reinforcement learning (RL) problems in which multiple constraint specifications are not identified before training. It is challenging to identify appropriate constraint specifications due to the undefined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Dongsheng Ding , Zhengyan Huan , Alejandro Ribeiro

Data arrives at our senses as a continuous stream, smoothly transforming from one instant to the next. These smooth transformations can be viewed as continuous symmetries of the environment that we inhabit, defining equivalence relations…

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