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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn abstract features to perform object classification, but understanding these features remains challenging due to difficult-to-interpret results or high computational costs. We propose an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maren H. Wehrheim , Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Matthias Kaschube

In image classification task, feature extraction is always a big issue. Intra-class variability increases the difficulty in designing the extractors. Furthermore, hand-crafted feature extractor cannot simply adapt new situation. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Chieh-Ning Fang , Chin-Teng Lin

In this work, we propose a balanced multi-component and multi-layer neural network (MMNN) structure to accurately and efficiently approximate functions with complex features, in terms of both degrees of freedom and computational cost. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shijun Zhang , Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong , Haomin Zhou

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Current state-of-the-art deep neural networks for image classification are made up of 10 - 100 million learnable weights and are therefore inherently prone to overfitting. The complexity of the weight count can be seen as a function of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Antonia van Betteray , Matthias Rottmann , Karsten Kahl

This work proposes an algorithm for explicitly constructing a pair of neural networks that linearize and reconstruct an embedded submanifold, from finite samples of this manifold. Our such-generated neural networks, called Flattening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Michael Psenka , Druv Pai , Vishal Raman , Shankar Sastry , Yi Ma

Deep learning is the mainstream technique for many machine learning tasks, including image recognition, machine translation, speech recognition, and so on. It has outperformed conventional methods in various fields and achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , David Xianfeng Gu

This paper studies the approximation capabilities of neural networks that combine layer normalization (LN) with linear layers. We prove that networks consisting of two linear layers with parallel layer normalizations (PLNs) inserted between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yunhao Ni , Yuxin Guo , Yuhe Liu , Wenxin Sun , Jie Luo , Wenjun Wu , Lei Huang

We propose a new algorithm to learn a one-hidden-layer convolutional neural network where both the convolutional weights and the outputs weights are parameters to be learned. Our algorithm works for a general class of (potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Simon S. Du , Surbhi Goel

The paper discusses the capabilities of multilayer perceptron neural networks implementing metric recognition methods, for which the values of the weights are calculated analytically by formulas. Comparative experiments in training a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Polad Geidarov

We introduce a novel framework that utilizes the internal weight activations of modern Large Language Models (LLMs) to construct a metric space of languages. Unlike traditional approaches based on hand-crafted linguistic features, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Maksym Shamrai , Vladyslav Hamolia

LPMLN is a probabilistic extension of answer set programs with the weight scheme derived from that of Markov Logic. Previous work has shown how inference in LPMLN can be achieved. In this paper, we present the concept of weight learning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Joohyung Lee , Yi Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong generalization across diverse tasks, yet the internal decision-making processes behind their predictions remain opaque. In this work, we study the geometry of hidden representations in LLMs through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Abhinav Joshi , Divyanshu Bhatt , Ashutosh Modi

Despite their great success, neural networks still remain as black-boxes due to the lack of interpretability. Here we propose a new analyzing method, namely the weight pathway analysis (WPA), to make them transparent. We consider weights in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Sihan Feng , Yong Zhang , Fuming Wang , Hong Zhao

To characterize the function space explored by neural networks (NNs) is an important aspect of learning theory. In this work, noticing that a multi-layer NN generates implicitly a hierarchy of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) -…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhengdao Chen

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Machine Unlearning is an emerging paradigm for selectively removing the impact of training datapoints from a network. Unlike existing methods that target a limited subset or a single class, our framework unlearns all classes in a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Samuele Poppi , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Recently low displacement rank (LDR) matrices, or so-called structured matrices, have been proposed to compress large-scale neural networks. Empirical results have shown that neural networks with weight matrices of LDR matrices, referred as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Liang Zhao , Siyu Liao , Yanzhi Wang , Zhe Li , Jian Tang , Victor Pan , Bo Yuan

How to balance training accuracy and adversarial robustness has become a challenge since the birth of deep learning. Here, we introduce a geometry-aware deep learning framework that leverages layer-wise local training to sculpt the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yixiong Ren , Wenkang Du , Jianhui Zhou , Haiping Huang

Generalization of deep neural networks remains one of the main open problems in machine learning. Previous theoretical works focused on deriving tight bounds of model complexity, while empirical works revealed that neural networks exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 James Wang , Cheng-Lin Yang