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In Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based image processing, most of the studies propose networks that are optimized for a single-level (or a single-objective); thus, they underperform on other levels and must be retrained for delivery of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Hyeongmin Lee , Taeoh Kim , Hanbin Son , Sangwook Baek , Minsu Cheon , Sangyoun Lee

In many modern applications, a carefully designed primary study provides individual-level data for interpretable modeling, while summary-level external information is available through black-box, efficient, and nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Chi-Shian Dai , Jun Shao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely believed to excel at node representation learning through trainable neighborhood aggregations. We challenge this view by introducing Fixed Aggregation Features (FAFs), a training-free approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Celia Rubio-Madrigal , Rebekka Burkholz

Artificial neural networks typically have a fixed, non-linear activation function at each neuron. We have designed a novel form of piecewise linear activation function that is learned independently for each neuron using gradient descent.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Forest Agostinelli , Matthew Hoffman , Peter Sadowski , Pierre Baldi

Despite their impressive performance, contemporary neural networks often lack structural safeguards that promote stable learning and interpretable behavior. In this work, we introduce a reformulation of layer-level transformations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

The potential advantage of machine learning in quantum computers is a topic of intense discussion in the literature. Theoretical, numerical and experimental explorations will most likely be required to understand its power. There has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-05 Abhinav Anand , Jonathan Romero , Matthias Degroote , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Statistical mechanics is used to study unrealizable generalization in two large feed-forward neural networks with binary weights and output, a perceptron and a tree committee machine. The student is trained by a teacher being larger, i.e.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Matts Sporre

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be made hardware-efficient by reducing the numerical precision of the weights and activations of the network and by improving the network's resilience to noise. However, this gain in efficiency often comes at…

Multiple rotation averaging is an essential task for structure from motion, mapping, and robot navigation. The task is to estimate the absolute orientations of several cameras given some of their noisy relative orientation measurements. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Pulak Purkait , Tat-Jun Chin , Ian Reid

Recent advances in associative memory design through strutured pattern sets and graph-based inference algorithms have allowed the reliable learning and retrieval of an exponential number of patterns. Both these and classical associative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amin Karbasi , Amir Hesam Salavati , Amin Shokrollahi , Lav Varshney

In this brief paper, we present a naive aggregation algorithm for a typical learning problem with expert advice setting, in which the task of improving generalization, i.e., model validation, is embedded in the learning process as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Getachew K Befekadu

The Filtered-x Normalized Least Mean Square (FxNLMS) algorithm suffers from slow convergence and a risk of divergence, although it can achieve low steady-state errors after sufficient adaptation. In contrast, the Generative Fixed-Filter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zhengding Luo , Haozhe Ma , Boxiang Wang , Ziyi Yang , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan

We propose a new computationally efficient method for quantizing the weights of pre- trained neural networks that is general enough to handle both multi-layer perceptrons and convolutional neural networks. Our method deterministically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Eric Lybrand , Rayan Saab

The inductive biases of trained neural networks are difficult to understand and, consequently, to adapt to new settings. We study the inductive biases of linearizations of neural networks, which we show to be surprisingly good summaries of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-29 Wesley J. Maddox , Shuai Tang , Pablo Garcia Moreno , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Andreas Damianou

Rapid development in numerical modelling of materials and the complexity of new models increases quickly together with their computational demands. Despite the growing performance of modern computers and clusters, calibration of such models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Tomáš Mareš , Eliška Janouchová , Anna Kučerová

With the ever increasing data deluge and the success of deep neural networks, the research of distributed deep learning has become pronounced. Two common approaches to achieve this distributed learning is synchronous and asynchronous weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Debasrita Chakraborty , Ashish Ghosh

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become widely adopted in gravitational wave (GW) detection pipelines due to their ability to automatically learn hierarchical features from raw strain data. However, the physical meaning of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jun Tian , He Wang , Jibo He , Yu Pan , Shuo Cao , Qingquan Jiang

This paper introduces a new federated learning scheme that leverages over-the-air computation. A novel feature of this scheme is the proposal to employ adaptive weights during aggregation, a facet treated as predefined in other over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Leandros Tassiulas

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

Deep supervised hashing has become an active topic in information retrieval. It generates hashing bits by the output neurons of a deep hashing network. During binary discretization, there often exists much redundancy between hashing bits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Chaoyou Fu , Liangchen Song , Xiang Wu , Guoli Wang , Ran He