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Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have numerous applications across various domains. Several optimization techniques, such as ResNet and SENet, have been proposed to improve model accuracy. These techniques improve the model performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenxiang Xu , Tian Qiu , Linyun Zhou , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song , Huiqiong Wang

Unsupervised Representation Learning on graphs is gaining traction due to the increasing abundance of unlabelled network data and the compactness, richness, and usefulness of the representations generated. In this context, the need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Arvindh Arun , Aakash Aanegola , Amul Agrawal , Ramasuri Narayanam , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Underwater image enhancement is an important low-level computer vision task for autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles to explore and understand the underwater environments. Recently, deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Hao-Hsiang Yang , Kuan-Chih Huang , Wei-Ting Chen

In exchange for large quantities of data and processing power, deep neural networks have yielded models that provide state of the art predication capabilities in many fields. However, a lack of strong guarantees on their behaviour have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Haakon Robinson , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

Learning feature detection has been largely an unexplored area when compared to handcrafted feature detection. Recent learning formulations use the covariant constraint in their loss function to learn covariant detectors. However, just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-04 Nehal Doiphode , Rahul Mitra , Shuaib Ahmed , Arjun Jain

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous thanks to their remarkable ability to model complex patterns across various domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, etc. While large DNN models are often more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Omkar Shende , Gayathri Ananthanarayanan , Marcello Traiola

In contrast to biological neural circuits, conventional artificial neural networks are commonly organized as strictly hierarchical architectures that exclude direct connections among neurons within the same layer. Consequently, information…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rafiad Sadat Shahir , Zayed Humayun , Mashrufa Akter Tamim , Shouri Saha , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam , Abu Mohammad Khan

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

Due to their expressive power, neural networks (NNs) are promising templates for functional optimization problems, particularly for reach-avoid certificate generation for systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Chun-Wei Kong , Sebastian Escobar , Ibon Gracia , Jay McMahon , Morteza Lahijanian

A semi-supervised learning framework using the feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) is proposed for image classification in this work. One unique property of FF-CNNs is that no backpropagation is used in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Yueru Chen , Yijing Yang , Min Zhang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Neural networks are generally built by interleaving (adaptable) linear layers with (fixed) nonlinear activation functions. To increase their flexibility, several authors have proposed methods for adapting the activation functions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-27 Simone Scardapane , Steven Van Vaerenbergh , Simone Totaro , Aurelio Uncini

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

This paper develops a novel deep learning approach for solving evolutionary equations, which integrates sequential learning strategies with an enhanced hard constraint strategy featuring trainable parameters, addressing the low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yushi Zhang , Shuai Su , Yong Wang , Yanzhong Yao

Over the past two decades, the feedforward neural network (FNN) optimization has been a key interest among the researchers and practitioners of multiple disciplines. The FNN optimization is often viewed from the various perspectives: the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Václav Snášel

Wider adoption of neural networks in many critical domains such as finance and healthcare is being hindered by the need to explain their predictions and to impose additional constraints on them. Monotonicity constraint is one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Davor Runje , Sharath M. Shankaranarayana

Shape constraints (such as non-negativity, monotonicity, convexity) play a central role in a large number of applications, as they usually improve performance for small sample size and help interpretability. However enforcing these shape…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Zoltan Szabo

Realistic use of neural networks often requires adhering to multiple constraints on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find fitting networks is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS), however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

We consider adversarial training of deep neural networks through the lens of Bayesian learning, and present a principled framework for adversarial training of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) with certifiable guarantees. We rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Matthew Wicker , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Zhoutong Chen , Zheng Zhang , Marta Kwiatkowska

Deep neural network (DNN) generally takes thousands of iterations to optimize via gradient descent and thus has a slow convergence. In addition, softmax, as a decision layer, may ignore the distribution information of the data during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Rui Zhang , Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li