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48 results for Convolutional models

Yes, they do. This paper provides the first empirical demonstration that deep convolutional models really need to be both deep and convolutional, even when trained with methods such as distillation that allow small or shallow models of high accuracy to be trained. Although previous research showed that shallow feed-for…

2016-03-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Ensemble learning is a method of combining multiple trained models to improve model accuracy. We propose the usage of such methods, specifically ensemble average, inside Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures by replacing the single convolutional layers with Inner Average Ensembles (IEA) of multiple convoluti…

2018-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New linear flows using exponential of linear transformations improve generative models.

problem Improving generative models in machine learning.
method Developed convolution exponentials and generalized Sylvester Flows using the exponential of linear transformations.
result Convolution exponentials and Convolutional Sylvester Flows outperform other models in log-likelihood.

Generative flows are attractive because they admit exact likelihood optimization and efficient image synthesis. Recently, Kingma & Dhariwal (2018) demonstrated with Glow that generative flows are capable of generating high quality images. We generalize the 1 x 1 convolutions proposed in Glow to invertible d x d convolu…

2019-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Most existing GANs architectures that generate images use transposed convolution or resize-convolution as their upsampling algorithm from lower to higher resolution feature maps in the generator. We argue that this kind of fixed operation is problematic for GANs to model objects that have very different visual appearan…

2018-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new Quantum Spatial Graph Convolutional Neural Network (QSGCNN) model that can directly learn a classification function for graphs of arbitrary sizes. Unlike state-of-the-art Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) models, the proposed QSGCNN model incorporates the process of identifying transit…

2018-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent times, the use of separable convolutions in deep convolutional neural network architectures has been explored. Several researchers, most notably (Chollet, 2016) and (Ghosh, 2017) have used separable convolutions in their deep architectures and have demonstrated state of the art or close to state of the art pe…

2017-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolution Neural Network (CNN) has gained tremendous success in computer vision tasks with its outstanding ability to capture the local latent features. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in extending convolution operations to the non-Euclidean geometry. Although various types of convolution operations h…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful class of generative models. Despite their successes, the most appropriate choice of a GAN network architecture is still not well understood. GAN models for image synthesis have adopted a deep convolutional network architecture, which eliminates or minimizes the use …

2019-05-07abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on how convolutional architectures approximate time series data.

problem Understanding the approximation properties of convolutional architectures in time series modeling.
method Mathematical analysis of convolutional architectures applied to time series modeling.
result A new definition of spectrum-based regularity for measuring temporal relationships under convolutional approximation.

To date, most state-of-the-art sequence modeling architectures use attention to build generative models for language based tasks. Some of these models use all the available sequence tokens to generate an attention distribution which results in time complexity of O(n2)O(n^2). Alternatively, they utilize depthwise convoluti…

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

This study reveals a Min-Max property in LeNet's convolutional layers, enhancing adversarial robustness.

problem Uncertainty in the connection weights of convolutional layers in neural networks.
method Demonstrates the Min-Max property through back propagation-based training and a simplified convolution formulation.
result The Min-Max property improves adversarial robustness, indicating a stronger uncertainty in the model parameters.

Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) provide a Bayesian non-parametric alternative to standard parametric deep learning models. A DGP is formed by stacking multiple GPs resulting in a well-regularized composition of functions. The Bayesian framework that equips the model with attractive properties, such as implicit capacity …

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A convolutional sequence to sequence non-intrusive load monitoring model is proposed in this paper. Gated linear unit convolutional layers are used to extract information from the sequences of aggregate electricity consumption. Residual blocks are also introduced to refine the output of the neural network. The partiall…

2018-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New model captures long-range patterns in sequences efficiently.

problem Efficiently capturing long-range patterns in sequential data.
method Inspired by wavelet multiresolution analysis, introduces MultiresLayer with multiresolution convolution.
result State-of-the-art performance on sequence classification and autoregressive density estimation tasks.

Fully convolutional neural networks (FCN) have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on the task of classifying time series sequences. We propose the augmentation of fully convolutional networks with long short term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM RNN) sub-modules for time series classification. Our …

2017-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

GCNs improve regression tasks by aggregating neighbor signals.

problem GCNs' statistical properties in regression tasks are poorly understood.
method Examined two GCN convolutions and their impact on learning error.
result GCNs have a bias-variance trade-off that depends on neighborhood size and topology.

We propose a novel Bayesian nonparametric method to learn translation-invariant relationships on non-Euclidean domains. The resulting graph convolutional Gaussian processes can be applied to problems in machine learning for which the input observations are functions with domains on general graphs. The structure of thes…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper bridges spectral and spatial graph convolutions, improving model capacity and transferability.

problem Improving graph neural networks by bridging spectral and spatial design.
method Theoretical demonstration and general framework for spectral analysis, new spectral convolutions, and depthwise separable convolutions.
result General framework allows spectral analysis of ConvGNNs, showing their performance and limits, and proposing new spectral convolutions.

Convolutional neural network is an important model in deep learning. To avoid exploding/vanishing gradient problems and to improve the generalizability of a neural network, it is desirable to have a convolution operation that nearly preserves the norm, or to have the singular values of the transformation matrix corresp…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes how diffusion models learn, revealing a spectral bias in structure mastery.

problem Understanding the learning dynamics and bias in diffusion models.
method Developed an analytical framework using a Gaussian-equivalence principle to solve gradient-flow dynamics and integrate probability-flow ODEs.
result Exposes a universal inverse-variance spectral law: high-variance structure is mastered faster than low-variance detail.

In this paper, we develop a new aligned vertex convolutional network model to learn multi-scale local-level vertex features for graph classification. Our idea is to transform the graphs of arbitrary sizes into fixed-sized aligned vertex grid structures, and define a new vertex convolution operation by adopting a set of…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the task of detecting regulatory elements in the human genome directly from raw DNA. Past work has focused on small snippets of DNA, making it difficult to model long-distance dependencies that arise from DNA's 3-dimensional conformation. In order to study long-distance dependencies, we develop and release …

2017-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph convolution improves linear separability and generalizes to out-of-distribution data.

problem Improving linear separability in semi-supervised classification.
method Applying graph convolution to mixtures of Gaussians in a stochastic block model.
result Graph convolution extends the linear separability regime by a factor of 1/D1/\sqrt{D}.

Recently, graph neural networks have been adopted in a wide variety of applications ranging from relational representations to modeling irregular data domains such as point clouds and social graphs. However, the space of graph neural network architectures remains highly fragmented impeding the development of optimized …

2018-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to speed up DNNs by quantizing Winograd/Toom-Cook convolutions.

problem Speeding up convolution computations in DNNs with reduced time consumption and improved accuracy.
method Application of base change technique for quantized Winograd-aware training model.
result 8-bit quantized network achieves nearly the same accuracy as direct quantized convolution with minimal additional operations.

Study on ridge regression in convolutional models shows double descent error behavior.

problem Understanding generalization and estimation error in over-parameterized convolutional models.
method Analysis of ridge estimators for convolutional linear models, derivation of exact error formulae.
result Ridge estimators exhibit double descent error behavior in high-dimensional convolutional models.

GCNs improve multi-layer network classification by expanding the distance between means.

problem Improving multi-layer network classification with graphical information.
method Theoretical and empirical study of graph convolutions in multi-layer networks.
result Graph convolutions expand the classification regime by a factor of 1/Emdeg41/\sqrt[4]{\mathbb{E}{ m deg}}.

Automates graph convolutional network design for semi-supervised node classification.

problem Designing optimal graph convolutional network architectures for semi-supervised node classification.
method An automatic process to define a problem-specific architecture based on graph structure.
result The proposed method outperforms existing methods in classification performance and network compactness.

We present a practical way of introducing convolutional structure into Gaussian processes, making them more suited to high-dimensional inputs like images. The main contribution of our work is the construction of an inter-domain inducing point approximation that is well-tailored to the convolutional kernel. This allows …

2017-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops a new model for predicting volatility surface.

problem Predicting volatility in financial markets is challenging due to its non-observable nature and complex dynamics.
method Physics-informed convolutional transformer architecture.
result The new model outperforms other deep-learning architectures in predicting volatility surface.

In this letter, we generalize the convolutional NMF by taking the ββ-divergence as the contrast function and present the correct multiplicative updates for its factors in closed form. The new updates unify the ββ-NMF and the convolutional NMF. We state why almost all of the existing updates are inexact and approximat…

2018-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗