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Value approximation using deep neural networks is at the heart of off-policy deep reinforcement learning, and is often the primary module that provides learning signals to the rest of the algorithm. While multi-layer perceptron networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ge Yang , Anurag Ajay , Pulkit Agrawal

The convolutional layers are core building blocks of neural network architectures. In general, a convolutional filter applies to the entire frequency spectrum of the input data. We explore artificially constraining the frequency spectra of…

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Epistemic intelligence requires machine learning systems to recognise the limits of their own knowledge and act safely under uncertainty, especially when faced with unknown unknowns. Existing uncertainty quantification methods rely on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rahul D Ray

The memory consumption of most Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures grows rapidly with increasing depth of the network, which is a major constraint for efficient network training on modern GPUs with limited memory, embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Bochen Guan , Jinnian Zhang , William A. Sethares , Richard Kijowski , Fang Liu

Laser speckle, the granular intensity pattern arising from random optical interference, provides a high-dimensional encoding of spectral information that can be exploited for precision metrology. Speckle-based spectrometers have advanced…

We present a modular, extensible likelihood framework for spectroscopic inference based on synthetic model spectra. The subtraction of an imperfect model from a continuously sampled spectrum introduces covariance between adjacent datapoints…

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Spectral estimators are fundamental in lowrank matrix models and arise throughout machine learning and statistics, with applications including network analysis, matrix completion and PCA. These estimators aim to recover the leading…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Hao Yan , Keith Levin

In long adaptive optics corrected exposures, exoplanet detections are currently limited by speckle noise originating from the telescope and instrument optics, and it is expected that such noise will also limit future high-contrast imaging…

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Although augmentations (e.g., perturbation of graph edges, image crops) boost the efficiency of Contrastive Learning (CL), feature level augmentation is another plausible, complementary yet not well researched strategy. Thus, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Zixing Song , Piotr Koniusz , Irwin King

Despite hundreds of millions of parameters, transformer training trajectories evolve within only a few coherent directions. We introduce Spectral Edge Dynamics (SED) to quantify this structure: a rolling-window SVD of parameter updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yongzhong Xu

Existing prompt learning for VLMs exhibits a modality asymmetry, predominantly optimizing text tokens while still relying on frozen visual encoder as holistic extractor and neglecting the spectral granularity essential for fine-grained…

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We investigate the spectral properties of linear-width feed-forward neural networks, where the sample size is asymptotically proportional to network width. Empirically, we show that the spectra of weight in this high dimensional regime are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhichao Wang , Andrew Engel , Anand Sarwate , Ioana Dumitriu , Tony Chiang

Resolving the diffusion coefficient is a key element in many biological and engineering systems, including pharmacological drug transport and fluid mechanics analyses. Additionally, these systems often have spatial variation in the…

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Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) sampling theory enables reconstruction of classes of continuous non-bandlimited signals that have a small number of free parameters from their low-rate discrete samples. This task is often translated into a…

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The acoustical performances of regular arrays of cylindrical elements, with their axes aligned and parallel to a ground plane, have been investigated through predictions and laboratory experiments. Semi-analytical predictions based on…

Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

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In high-dimensional learning, models remain stable until they collapse abruptly once the sample size falls below a critical level. This instability is not algorithm-specific but a geometric mechanism: when the weakest Fisher eigendirection…

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Multiple comparisons in hypothesis testing often encounter structural constraints in various applications. For instance, in structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Alzheimer's Disease, the focus extends beyond examining atrophic brain…

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) face significant challenges from spectral bias, which impedes their ability to model high-frequency phenomena and limits extrapolation performance. To address this, we introduce xLSTM-PINN, a novel…

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Spectral indices such as NDVI have driven vegetation monitoring for decades, yet their design remains largely manual and ad hoc. Their usefulness stems not only from their empirical performance, but also from algebraic forms that remain…

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