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Can we modify the training data distribution to encourage the underlying optimization method toward finding solutions with superior generalization performance on in-distribution data? In this work, we approach this question for the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dang Nguyen , Paymon Haddad , Eric Gan , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

In this paper, we propose to train a network with binary weights and low-bitwidth activations, designed especially for mobile devices with limited power consumption. Most previous works on quantizing CNNs uncritically assume the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bohan Zhuang , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Many applications require sparse neural networks due to space or inference time restrictions. There is a large body of work on training dense networks to yield sparse networks for inference, but this limits the size of the largest trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Utku Evci , Trevor Gale , Jacob Menick , Pablo Samuel Castro , Erich Elsen

Given the growing trend of continual learning techniques for deep neural networks focusing on the domain of computer vision, there is a need to identify which of these generalizes well to other tasks such as human activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Juan Ye

Understanding the inductive bias and generalization properties of large overparametrized machine learning models requires to characterize the dynamics of the training algorithm. We study the learning dynamics of large two-layer neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-30 Andrea Montanari , Pierfrancesco Urbani

In many machine learning problems, large-scale datasets have become the de-facto standard to train state-of-the-art deep networks at the price of heavy computation load. In this paper, we focus on condensing large training sets into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

Sparse deep learning aims to address the challenge of huge storage consumption by deep neural networks, and to recover the sparse structure of target functions. Although tremendous empirical successes have been achieved, most sparse deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-17 Jincheng Bai , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

Distributed training is the de facto standard to scale up the training of deep learning models with multiple GPUs. Its performance bottleneck lies in communications for gradient synchronization. Although high tensor sparsity is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhuang Wang , Zhaozhuo Xu , Jingyi Xi , Yuke Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava , T. S. Eugene Ng

Most artificial networks today rely on dense representations, whereas biological networks rely on sparse representations. In this paper we show how sparse representations can be more robust to noise and interference, as long as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Subutai Ahmad , Luiz Scheinkman

Artificial neural networks open up unprecedented machine learning capabilities at the cost of ever growing computational requirements. Sparsifying the parameters, often achieved through weight pruning, has been identified as a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Rishav Mukherji , Mark Schöne , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

We look into the robustness of deep learning based MRI reconstruction when tested on unseen contrasts and organs. We then propose to generalize the network by training with large publicly-available natural image datasets with synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Cheng Ouyang , Jo Schlemper , Carlo Biffi , Gavin Seegoolam , Jose Caballero , Anthony N. Price , Joseph V. Hajnal , Daniel Rueckert

In this paper, we propose the nonlinearity generation method to speed up and stabilize the training of deep convolutional neural networks. The proposed method modifies a family of activation functions as nonlinearity generators (NGs). NGs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Yang Jiang , Zeyang Dou , Qun Hao , Jie Cao , Kun Gao , Xi Chen

Recently, it has been observed that when representations are learnt in a way that encourages sparsity, improved performance is obtained on classification tasks. These methods involve combinations of activation functions, sampling steps and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Alireza Makhzani , Brendan Frey

Due to the realization that deep reinforcement learning algorithms trained on high-dimensional tasks can strongly overfit to their training environments, there have been several studies that investigated the generalization performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Safa Alver , Doina Precup

Trainable activation functions, whose parameters are optimized alongside network weights, offer increased expressivity compared to fixed activation functions. Specifically, trainable activation functions defined as ratios of polynomials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rafał Surdej , Michał Bortkiewicz , Alex Lewandowski , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Clare Lyle

Deep nets generalize well despite having more parameters than the number of training samples. Recent works try to give an explanation using PAC-Bayes and Margin-based analyses, but do not as yet result in sample complexity bounds better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Behnam Neyshabur , Yi Zhang

We tackle the problem of joint frequency and power allocation while emphasizing the generalization capability of a deep reinforcement learning model. Most of the existing methods solve reinforcement learning-based wireless problems for a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Swatantra Kafle , Jithin Jagannath , Zackary Kane , Noor Biswas , Prem Sagar Vasanth Kumar , Anu Jagannath

Recently, deep residual networks have been successfully applied in many computer vision and natural language processing tasks, pushing the state-of-the-art performance with deeper and wider architectures. In this work, we interpret deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Chang , Lili Meng , Eldad Haber , Lars Ruthotto , David Begert , Elliot Holtham

In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a potent tool across a multitude of domains, leading to a surge in research pertaining to its application in the wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) domain. Despite the rapid development,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yiran Huang , Haibin Zhao , Yexu Zhou , Till Riedel , Michael Beigl

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos