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Insect flight is a strongly nonlinear and actuated dynamical system. As such, strategies for understanding its control have typically relied on either model-based methods or linearizations thereof. Here we develop a framework that combines…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Olivia Zahn , Jorge Bustamante , Callin Switzer , Thomas Daniel , J. Nathan Kutz

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Peter Stone , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

Overparameterization has been shown to benefit both the optimization and generalization of neural networks, but large networks are resource hungry at both training and test time. Network pruning can reduce test-time resource requirements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Chaoqi Wang , Guodong Zhang , Roger Grosse

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Structural neural network pruning aims to remove the redundant channels in the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by pruning the filters of less importance to the final output accuracy. To reduce the degradation of performance after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nanfei Jiang , Xu Zhao , Chaoyang Zhao , Yongqi An , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Compression techniques for deep neural network models are becoming very important for the efficient execution of high-performance deep learning systems on edge-computing devices. The concept of model compression is also important for…

This work analyzes Graph Neural Networks, a generalization of Fully-Connected Deep Neural Nets on Graph structured data, when their width, that is the number of nodes in each fullyconnected layer is increasing to infinity. Infinite Width…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yunus Cobanoglu

We study the expressivity of sparse maxout networks, where each neuron takes a fixed number of inputs from the previous layer and employs a, possibly multi-argument, maxout activation. This setting captures key characteristics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Moritz Grillo , Tobias Hofmann

The main goal of network pruning is imposing sparsity on the neural network by increasing the number of parameters with zero value in order to reduce the architecture size and the computational speedup. In most of the previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Amirsina Torfi , Rouzbeh A. Shirvani , Sobhan Soleymani , Naser M. Nasrabadi

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework for solving complex real-world problems. Large neural networks employed in the framework are traditionally associated with better generalization capabilities, but their increased size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Samin Yeasar Arnob , Riyasat Ohib , Sergey Plis , Doina Precup

How might one "reduce" a graph? That is, generate a smaller graph that preserves the global structure at the expense of discarding local details? There has been extensive work on both graph sparsification (removing edges) and graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Lee M. Gunderson

We perform an empirical study of the behaviour of deep networks when fully linearizing some of its feature channels through a sparsity prior on the overall number of nonlinear units in the network. In experiments on image classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Christian H. X. Ali Mehmeti-Göpel , Jan Disselhoff

In two recent papers by Veitch and Roy and by Borgs, Chayes, Cohn, and Holden, a new class of sparse random graph processes based on the concept of graphexes over $\sigma$-finite measure spaces has been introduced. In this paper, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , László Miklós Lovász

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning on structured data, yet the relationship between their expressivity and predictive performance remains unclear. We introduce a family of premetrics that capture different degrees…

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We provide novel guaranteed approaches for training feedforward neural networks with sparse connectivity. We leverage on the techniques developed previously for learning linear networks and show that they can also be effectively adopted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

We use the combination of ideas and results from the theory of graph limits and nonlinear evolution equations to provide a rigorous mathematical justification for taking continuum limit for certain nonlocally coupled networks and to extend…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-11-25 Georgi S. Medvedev

To theoretically understand the behavior of trained deep neural networks, it is necessary to study the dynamics induced by gradient methods from a random initialization. However, the nonlinear and compositional structure of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Karl Hajjar , Lénaïc Chizat , Christophe Giraud

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Sparse training is emerging as a promising avenue for reducing the computational cost of training neural networks. Several recent studies have proposed pruning methods using learnable thresholds to efficiently explore the non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Abhisek Kundu , Naveen K. Mellempudi , Dharma Teja Vooturi , Bharat Kaul , Pradeep Dubey