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Designing a universal policy architecture that performs well across diverse robots and task configurations remains a key challenge. In this work, we address this by representing robot actions as sequential data and generating actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xinyu Zhang , Yuhan Liu , Haonan Chang , Liam Schramm , Abdeslam Boularias

The backpropagation algorithm for neural networks is widely felt hard to understand, despite the existence of some well-written explanations and/or derivations. This paper provides a new derivation of this algorithm based on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yiping Cheng

The number of parameters in state of the art neural networks has drastically increased in recent years. This surge of interest in large scale neural networks has motivated the development of new distributed training strategies enabling such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Aidan N. Gomez , Oscar Key , Kuba Perlin , Stephen Gou , Nick Frosst , Jeff Dean , Yarin Gal

We present a neural operator framework for solving inverse scattering problems. A neural operator produces a preliminary indicator function for the scatterer, which, after appropriate rescaling, is used as a regularization parameter within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Victor Chenu , Houssem Haddar , Hadrien Montanelli

It is notoriously difficult to control the behavior of artificial neural networks such as generative neural language models. We recast the problem of controlling natural language generation as that of learning to interface with a pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Zachary C. Brown , Nathaniel Robinson , David Wingate , Nancy Fulda

In many massively parallel data management platforms, programs are represented as small imperative pieces of code connected in a data flow. This popular abstraction makes it hard to apply algebraic reordering techniques employed by…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Fabian Hueske , Aljoscha Krettek , Kostas Tzoumas

Neural algorithmic reasoners are parallel processors. Teaching them sequential algorithms contradicts this nature, rendering a significant share of their computations redundant. Parallel algorithms however may exploit their full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Valerie Engelmayer , Dobrik Georgiev , Petar Veličković

In this work, we propose a model order reduction framework to deal with inverse problems in a non-intrusive setting. Inverse problems, especially in a partial differential equation context, require a huge computational load due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Anna Ivagnes , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza

Backpropagation is the default algorithm for training deep neural networks due to its simplicity, efficiency and high convergence rate. However, its requirements make it impossible to be implemented in a human brain. In recent years, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Albert Jiménez Sanfiz , Mohamed Akrout

Algebraic effects and handlers are a mechanism to structure programs with computational effects in a modular way. They are recently gaining popularity and being adopted in practical languages, such as OCaml. Meanwhile, there has been…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Fuga Kawamata , Hiroshi Unno , Taro Sekiyama , Tachio Terauchi

Training neural networks for neuromorphic deployment is non-trivial. There have been a variety of approaches proposed to adapt back-propagation or back-propagation-like algorithms appropriate for training. Considering that these networks…

Originally proposed for handling time series data, Auto-regressive Decision Trees (ARDTs) have not yet been explored for language modeling. This paper delves into both the theoretical and practical applications of ARDTs in this new context.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yulu Gan , Tomer Galanti , Tomaso Poggio , Eran Malach

Harnessing the statistical power of neural networks to perform language understanding and symbolic reasoning is difficult, when it requires executing efficient discrete operations against a large knowledge-base. In this work, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Chen Liang , Jonathan Berant , Quoc Le , Kenneth D. Forbus , Ni Lao

This article presents a generic approach to convolution that significantly differs from conventional methodologies in the current Machine Learning literature. The approach, in its mathematical aspects, proved to be clear and concise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Roberto Dias Algarte

Training deep neural networks on large-scale datasets requires significant hardware resources whose costs (even on cloud platforms) put them out of reach of smaller organizations, groups, and individuals. Backpropagation, the workhorse for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Artificial neural networks are algorithms which have been developed to tackle a range of computational problems. These range from modelling brain function to making predictions of time-dependent phenomena to solving hard (NP-complete)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. Gupta , H. P. Singh

Neural networks allow solving many ill-posed inverse problems with unprecedented performance. Physics informed approaches already progressively replace carefully hand-crafted reconstruction algorithms in real applications. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Alban Gossard , Pierre Weiss

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Vasco Lopes , Paulo Fazendeiro

The design of neural architectures for structured objects is typically guided by experimental insights rather than a formal process. In this work, we appeal to kernels over combinatorial structures, such as sequences and graphs, to derive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Tao Lei , Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Diagrams matter. Unfortunately, the deep learning community has no standard method for diagramming architectures. The current combination of linear algebra notation and ad-hoc diagrams fails to offer the necessary precision to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Vincent Abbott