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Combining the strengths of model-based iterative algorithms and data-driven deep learning solutions, deep unrolling networks (DuNets) have become a popular tool to solve inverse imaging problems. While DuNets have been successfully applied…

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We propose ReDense as a simple and low complexity way to improve the performance of trained neural networks. We use a combination of random weights and rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function to add a ReLU dense (ReDense) layer to…

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Symmetric matrix decomposition is an active research area in machine learning. This paper focuses on exploiting the low-rank structure of non-negative and sparse symmetric matrices via the rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function.…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known to be brittle under various image transformations, including rotations, scalings, and changes of lighting conditions. We observe that the features of a transformed image are drastically…

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Multimodal image registration is a fundamental task and a prerequisite for downstream cross-modal analysis. Despite recent progress in shared feature extraction and multi-scale architectures, two key limitations remain. First, some methods…

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