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The level sets of neural networks represent fundamental properties such as decision boundaries of classifiers and are used to model non-linear manifold data such as curves and surfaces. Thus, methods for controlling the neural level sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Matan Atzmon , Niv Haim , Lior Yariv , Ofer Israelov , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

Numerous empirical evidence has corroborated that the noise plays a crucial rule in effective and efficient training of neural networks. The theory behind, however, is still largely unknown. This paper studies this fundamental problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mo Zhou , Tianyi Liu , Yan Li , Dachao Lin , Enlu Zhou , Tuo Zhao

Deep learning has led to significant advances in artificial intelligence, in part, by adopting strategies motivated by neurophysiology. However, it is unclear whether deep learning could occur in the real brain. Here, we show that a deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-11 Jordan Guergiuev , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Blake A. Richards

Deep learning empirically achieves high performance in many applications, but its training dynamics has not been fully understood theoretically. In this paper, we explore theoretical analysis on training two-layer ReLU neural networks in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-30 Shunta Akiyama , Taiji Suzuki

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Multi-task learning (MTL) trains deep neural networks to optimize several objectives simultaneously using a shared backbone, which leads to reduced computational costs, improved data efficiency, and enhanced performance through cross-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hoang Phan , Lam Tran , Quyen Tran , Ngoc N. Tran , Tuan Truong , Qi Lei , Nhat Ho , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Haiping Huang

There is currently a debate within the neuroscience community over the likelihood of the brain performing backpropagation (BP). To better mimic the brain, training a network $\textit{one layer at a time}$ with only a "single forward pass"…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Chieh Wu , Aria Masoomi , Arthur Gretton , Jennifer Dy

An ongoing challenge in neural information processing is: how do neurons adjust their connectivity to improve task performance over time (i.e., actualize learning)? It is widely believed that there is a consistent, synaptic-level learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Aman Bhargava , Mohammad R. Rezaei , Milad Lankarany

In the pursuit of reducing the number of trainable parameters in deep transformer networks, we employ Reinforcement Learning to dynamically select layers during training and tie them together. Every few iterations, the RL agent is asked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Tamir David Hay , Lior Wolf

A common method in training neural networks is to initialize all the weights to be independent Gaussian vectors. We observe that by instead initializing the weights into independent pairs, where each pair consists of two identical Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Alexander Munteanu , Simon Omlor , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff

In this paper, we study deep diagonal circulant neural networks, that is deep neural networks in which weight matrices are the product of diagonal and circulant ones. Besides making a theoretical analysis of their expressivity, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Alexandre Araujo , Benjamin Negrevergne , Yann Chevaleyre , Jamal Atif

This paper proposes a new algorithm based on multi-scale stochastic local search with binary representation for training neural networks. In particular, we study the effects of neighborhood evaluation strategies, the effect of the number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mauro Brunato , Roberto Battiti

Training a sparse neural network from scratch requires optimizing connections at the same time as the weights themselves. Typically, the weights are redistributed after a predefined number of weight updates, removing a fraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mathias Parger , Alexander Ertl , Paul Eibensteiner , Joerg H. Mueller , Martin Winter , Markus Steinberger

Inspired by the recent neuroscience studies on the left-right asymmetry of the human brain in processing low and high spatial frequency information, this paper introduces a dual skipping network which carries out coarse-to-fine object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Changmao Cheng , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Wei Liu , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng , Xiangyang Xue

In this work, we propose a new training method for finding minimum weight norm solutions in over-parameterized neural networks (NNs). This method seeks to improve training speed and generalization performance by framing NN training as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-22 Yamini Bansal , Madhu Advani , David D Cox , Andrew M Saxe

This paper introduces and evaluates a novel training method for neural networks: Dual Variable Learning Rates (DVLR). Building on insights from behavioral psychology, the dual learning rates are used to emphasize correct and incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Elizabeth Liner , Risto Miikkulainen

We introduce a robust, error-tolerant adaptive training algorithm for generalized learning paradigms in high-dimensional superposed quantum networks, or \emph{adaptive quantum networks}. The formalized procedure applies standard…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Christopher Altman , Romàn R. Zapatrin

This paper studies a deep learning approach for binary assignment problems in wireless networks, which identifies binary variables for permutation matrices. This poses challenges in designing a structure of a neural network and its training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Minseok Kim , Hoon Lee , Hongju Lee , Inkyu Lee

The subject of deep learning has recently attracted users of machine learning from various disciplines, including: medical diagnosis and bioinformatics, financial market analysis and online advertisement, speech and handwriting recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Charles K. Chui , Shao-Bo Lin , Ding-Xuan Zhou