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Batch normalization makes deep residual networks train faster.
Generalization bounds derived for neural ODEs and deep residual networks.
The skip-connections used in residual networks have become a standard architecture choice in deep learning due to the increased training stability and generalization performance with this architecture, although there has been limited theoretical understanding for this improvement. In this work, we analyze overparameter…
ResGCN detects anomalies in attributed networks by capturing sparsity and nonlinearity.
Study shows how deep residual networks can be analyzed as shallow network ensembles for optimization.
Deep residual networks implicitly converge to neural ODEs.
Deep residual networks can approximate any continuous function using control theory.
Adaptive weights improve physics-informed neural networks and deep operator networks.
In this paper, we introduce transformations of deep rectifier networks, enabling the conversion of deep rectifier networks into shallow rectifier networks. We subsequently prove that any rectifier net of any depth can be represented by a maximum of a number of functions that can be realized by a shallow network with a …
SRFRN accelerates image super-resolution using shallow residual units.
Speeds up deep neural networks training by 10x using GPU concurrency.
An emerging design principle in deep learning is that each layer of a deep artificial neural network should be able to easily express the identity transformation. This idea not only motivated various normalization techniques, such as \emph{batch normalization}, but was also key to the immense success of \emph{residual …
RDL-Net improves speech enhancement with fewer parameters and better performance.
Theoretical limits of deep residual networks show consistent covariance structures.
Residual connections significantly boost the performance of deep neural networks. However, there are few theoretical results that address the influence of residuals on the hypothesis complexity and the generalization ability of deep neural networks. This paper studies the influence of residual connections on the hypoth…
Deep learning enhances options hedging performance.
Graph neural networks suffer from oversmoothing, but adding residual connections helps.
New measure assesses deep neural networks' robustness to adversarial attacks.
While training error of most deep neural networks degrades as the depth of the network increases, residual networks appear to be an exception. We show that the main reason for this is the Lyapunov stability of the gradient descent algorithm: for an arbitrarily chosen step size, the equilibria of the gradient descent ar…
We analyze the global convergence of gradient descent for deep linear residual networks by proposing a new initialization: zero-asymmetric (ZAS) initialization. It is motivated by avoiding stable manifolds of saddle points. We prove that under the ZAS initialization, for an arbitrary target matrix, gradient descent con…
To have a superior generalization, a deep learning neural network often involves a large size of training sample. With increase of hidden layers in order to increase learning ability, neural network has potential degradation in accuracy. Both could seriously limit applicability of deep learning in some domains particul…
Residual Network (ResNet) is the state-of-the-art architecture that realizes successful training of really deep neural network. It is also known that good weight initialization of neural network avoids problem of vanishing/exploding gradients. In this paper, simplified models of ResNets are analyzed. We argue that good…
Accelerated magnetic resonance (MR) scan acquisition with compressed sensing (CS) and parallel imaging is a powerful method to reduce MR imaging scan time. However, many reconstruction algorithms have high computational costs. To address this, we investigate deep residual learning networks to remove aliasing artifacts …
Training deep recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures is complicated due to the increased network complexity. This disrupts the learning of higher order abstracts using deep RNN. In case of feed-forward networks training deep structures is simple and faster while learning long-term temporal information is not poss…
We introduce a new deep convolutional neural network, CrescendoNet, by stacking simple building blocks without residual connections. Each Crescendo block contains independent convolution paths with increased depths. The numbers of convolution layers and parameters are only increased linearly in Crescendo blocks. In exp…
Stacking improves deep neural network training efficiency.
Review of neural network expressivity and architectures.
We present in this paper a model for forecasting short-term power loads based on deep residual networks. The proposed model is able to integrate domain knowledge and researchers' understanding of the task by virtue of different neural network building blocks. Specifically, a modified deep residual network is formulated…
Gradient descent finds a global minimum in training deep neural networks despite the objective function being non-convex. The current paper proves gradient descent achieves zero training loss in polynomial time for a deep over-parameterized neural network with residual connections (ResNet). Our analysis relies on the p…
Enhances anomaly detection in high dimensions with pretrained networks.
ResNets promote smoother interpolations than MLPs, enhancing generalization.
Effective Gram matrix predicts deep network generalization.
RFRBoost uses random features to boost deep residual neural networks, improving performance and computational efficiency.
Recently, deep residual networks have been successfully applied in many computer vision and natural language processing tasks, pushing the state-of-the-art performance with deeper and wider architectures. In this work, we interpret deep residual networks as ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which have long been s…
DAS-PINNs uses deep learning to solve complex PDEs more accurately.
Deep linear ResNets converge globally with certain transformations.
Residual neural networks don't help overcome sampling complexity issues.
This paper studies deep learning methodologies for portfolio optimization in the US equities market. We present a novel residual switching network that can automatically sense changes in market regimes and switch between momentum and reversal predictors accordingly. The residual switching network architecture combines …
Deep, wide ConvResNets can approximate functions and their smoothness.
We revisit residual algorithms in both model-free and model-based reinforcement learning settings. We propose the bidirectional target network technique to stabilize residual algorithms, yielding a residual version of DDPG that significantly outperforms vanilla DDPG in the DeepMind Control Suite benchmark. Moreover, we…
Subspace clustering aims to cluster unlabeled data that lies in a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. Deep subspace clustering approaches based on auto-encoders have become very popular to solve subspace clustering problems. However, the training of current deep methods converges slowly, which is much less effic…
Residual networks' depth is mathematically equivalent to expanding an implicit ensemble size.
We build on the dynamical systems approach to deep learning, where deep residual networks are idealized as continuous-time dynamical systems, from the approximation perspective. In particular, we establish general sufficient conditions for universal approximation using continuous-time deep residual networks, which can …
In this paper we are interested in the problem of learning an over-complete basis and a methodology such that the reconstruction or inverse problem does not need optimization. We analyze the optimality of the presented approaches, their link to popular already known techniques s.a. Artificial Neural Networks,k-means or…
Deep residual networks (ResNets) have demonstrated better generalization performance than deep feedforward networks (FFNets). However, the theory behind such a phenomenon is still largely unknown. This paper studies this fundamental problem in deep learning from a so-called "neural tangent kernel" perspective. Specific…
New method diagnoses criticality in deep neural networks, improving performance.
Deep neural networks are highly expressive machine learning models with the ability to interpolate arbitrary datasets. Deep nets are typically optimized via first-order methods and the optimization process crucially depends on the characteristics of the network as well as the dataset. This work sheds light on the relat…
Deep GCNII tackles over-smoothing problem in graph convolutional networks.