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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and have been applied across various domains in physical science. However, their performance often relies on…

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Implicit neural representations (INRs) have arisen as useful methods for representing signals on Euclidean domains. By parameterizing an image as a multilayer perceptron (MLP) on Euclidean space, INRs effectively represent signals in a way…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Vishwanath Saragadam , Maarten V. de Hoop , Richard G. Baraniuk

Dense pixel-specific representation learning at scale has been bottlenecked due to the unavailability of large-scale multi-view datasets. Current methods for building effective pretraining datasets heavily rely on annotated 3D meshes, point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Kalyani Marathe , Mahtab Bigverdi , Nishat Khan , Tuhin Kundu , Patrick Howe , Sharan Ranjit S , Anand Bhattad , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Linda G. Shapiro , Ranjay Krishna

Aiming at drastic speedup for point-feature embeddings at test time, we propose a new framework that uses a pair of multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) and a lookup table (LUT) to transform point-coordinate inputs into high-dimensional features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yusuke Sekikawa , Teppei Suzuki

In recent years, deep learning has made remarkable progress in a wide range of domains, with a particularly notable impact on natural language processing tasks. One of the challenges associated with training deep neural networks in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Hanna Mazzawi , Xavi Gonzalvo , Michael Wunder , Sammy Jerome , Benoit Dherin

This paper introduces scalable, sampling-based algorithms that optimize trained neural networks with ReLU activations. We first propose an iterative algorithm that takes advantage of the piecewise linear structure of ReLU neural networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Georgia Perakis , Asterios Tsiourvas

Training visual embeddings with labeled data supervision has been the de facto setup for representation learning in computer vision. Inspired by recent success of adopting masked image modeling (MIM) in self-supervised representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kaifeng Chen , Daniel Salz , Huiwen Chang , Kihyuk Sohn , Dilip Krishnan , Mojtaba Seyedhosseini

NeRF synthesizes novel views of a scene with unprecedented quality by fitting a neural radiance field to RGB images. However, NeRF requires querying a deep Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) millions of times, leading to slow rendering times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Christian Reiser , Songyou Peng , Yiyi Liao , Andreas Geiger

We introduce a new neural signal model designed for efficient high-resolution representation of large-scale signals. The key innovation in our multiscale implicit neural representation (MINER) is an internal representation via a Laplacian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Vishwanath Saragadam , Jasper Tan , Guha Balakrishnan , Richard G. Baraniuk , Ashok Veeraraghavan

One of the current trends in robotics is to employ large language models (LLMs) to provide non-predefined command execution and natural human-robot interaction. It is useful to have an environment map together with its language…

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A learning algorithm for multilayer perceptrons is presented which is based on finding the principal components of a correlation matrix computed from the example inputs and their target outputs. For large networks our procedure needs far…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bunzmann , M. Biehl , R. Urbanczik

The paper discusses the capabilities of multilayer perceptron neural networks implementing metric recognition methods, for which the values of the weights are calculated analytically by formulas. Comparative experiments in training a neural…

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Due to the huge amount of parameters, fine-tuning of pretrained language models (PLMs) is prone to overfitting in the low resource scenarios. In this work, we present a novel method that operates on the hidden representations of a PLM to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Linlin Liu , Xingxuan Li , Megh Thakkar , Xin Li , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Lidong Bing

We introduce Perceptual-Initialization (PI), a paradigm shift in visual representation learning that incorporates human perceptual structure during the initialization phase rather than as a downstream fine-tuning step. By integrating…

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Self-attention mechanism is the key of the Transformer but often criticized for its computation demands. Previous token pruning works motivate their methods from the view of computation redundancy but still need to load the full network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Pumeng Lyu , Dongrui Liu , Tao Tang , Xiaodan Liang , Andy Song , Xiaojun Chang

This paper presents SimMIM, a simple framework for masked image modeling. We simplify recently proposed related approaches without special designs such as block-wise masking and tokenization via discrete VAE or clustering. To study what let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Yutong Lin , Jianmin Bao , Zhuliang Yao , Qi Dai , Han Hu

Most deep neural networks are trained under fixed network architectures and require retraining when the architecture changes. If expanding the network's size is needed, it is necessary to retrain from scratch, which is expensive. To avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Chau Pham , Piotr Teterwak , Soren Nelson , Bryan A. Plummer

Embedding layers in transformer-based NLP models typically account for the largest share of model parameters, scaling with vocabulary size but not yielding performance gains proportional to scale. We propose an alternative approach in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Henry Ndubuaku , Mouad Talhi

Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) enable fully parallel token decoding but often remain impractical at inference time due to the many denoising iterations required to refine an information-free, fully masked initialization into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tongyuan Miao , Gary Huang , Kai Jun Han , Annie Jiang

There currently exist two main approaches to reproducing visual appearance using Machine Learning (ML): The first is training models that generalize over different instances of a problem, e.g., different images of a dataset. As one-shot…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel