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48 results for MNIST Dataset

MNIST-Nd offers synthetic datasets to benchmark clustering across dimensions.

problem Clustering performance degrades with high-dimensional data.
method Training mixture variational autoencoders on MNIST to create synthetic datasets with varying latent dimensions.
result Leiden clustering algorithm is most robust as dimensionality grows.

This paper removes near-duplicates from Fashion-MNIST to improve testing accuracy.

problem Near-duplicate images in Fashion-MNIST increase testing accuracy, reducing dataset quality.
method Identified and removed near-duplicate images between training and testing sets.
result Improved dataset quality for better testing accuracy in machine learning models.

The Adversarially Learned Mixture Model (AMM) is a generative model for unsupervised or semi-supervised data clustering. The AMM is the first adversarially optimized method to model the conditional dependence between inferred continuous and categorical latent variables. Experiments on the MNIST and SVHN datasets show t…

2018-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Bidirectional VAE reduces parameters and improves image tasks.

problem Improving image reconstruction, classification, interpolation, and generation.
method Uses a single neural network for both encoding and decoding in both forward and backward directions.
result Bidirectional VAEs reduce parameters by almost 50% and slightly outperform unidirectional VAEs.

Deep networks learn spurious features instead of actual object features, leading to poor generalization.

problem Deep networks' poor generalization on out-of-distribution samples due to learning spurious features.
method Evaluation of existing robust feature learning methods and regularization methods, comparison against a baseline designed to capture high correlation features.
result A baseline method trained on high correlation features outperforms existing methods in generalization.

Skip connections improve biologically-inspired learning rules.

problem Biologically-inspired learning rules often underperform compared to backpropagation.
method Introduced skip connections between intermediate layers in biologically-motivated learning rules.
result Skip connections can match the performance of backpropagation and are robust to hyper-parameters.

A standard Variational Autoencoder, with a Euclidean latent space, is structurally incapable of capturing topological properties of certain datasets. To remove topological obstructions, we introduce Diffusion Variational Autoencoders with arbitrary manifolds as a latent space. A Diffusion Variational Autoencoder uses t…

2019-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Variational inference is a powerful tool for approximate inference. However, it mainly focuses on the evidence lower bound as variational objective and the development of other measures for variational inference is a promising area of research. This paper proposes a robust modification of evidence and a lower bound for…

2016-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian autoencoders improve OOD detection by addressing Bernoulli likelihood issues.

problem Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection fails with Bernoulli likelihood for certain datasets.
method Proposes Bayesian autoencoders and alternative likelihood models to fix the issue.
result Bayesian autoencoders and alternative likelihood models improve OOD detection accuracy.

Develops a method to interpret deep learning models by identifying key features.

problem Revealing the decision-making process of blackbox models from raw data to predictions.
method Adversarial attacks to localize discriminative features with statistical guarantees.
result Locally identified features are both biologically plausible and statistically significant.

Generative models are known to be difficult to assess. Recent works, especially on generative adversarial networks (GANs), produce good visual samples of varied categories of images. However, the validation of their quality is still difficult to define and there is no existing agreement on the best evaluation process. …

2018-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A dataset of 10 molecule types for machine learning studies.

problem Lack of suitable datasets for machine learning in molecular imaging.
method Generated 2D cross-sectional projections of 10 molecule types from Molecular Dynamics trajectories.
result Benchmark dataset for machine learning, deep learning, and image processing in scattering, imaging, and microscopy.

Deep neural networks reveal a low-dimensional manifold structure in data.

problem Understanding the structure of data for better model performance.
method Model-centric analysis of the data manifold using the local data matrix and Fisher information matrix.
result The dataset lies on a data leaf with a dimension bounded by the number of labels.

We propose a stepsize adaptation scheme for stochastic gradient descent. It operates directly with the loss function and rescales the gradient in order to make fixed predicted progress on the loss. We demonstrate its capabilities by conclusively improving the performance of Adam and Momentum optimizers. The enhanced op…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Research proposes a test case generation system for deep learning models using dataset properties.

problem Automated generation of extensive test cases for deep learning models is challenging.
method Measures dataset quality and proposes a test case generation system guided by dataset properties.
result Systematic test case generation for deep learning models is effective.

The paper introduces a method to make neural networks more robust to adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to small, adversarially designed perturbations.
method A bottom-up strategy using a nonlinear front end that polarizes and quantizes data.
result The approach can completely eliminate adversarial perturbations on MNIST and Fashion MNIST datasets.

We present a variation of the Autoencoder (AE) that explicitly maximizes the mutual information between the input data and the hidden representation. The proposed model, the InfoMax Autoencoder (IMAE), by construction is able to learn a robust representation and good prototypes of the data. IMAE is compared both theore…

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study compares various optimization algorithms for deep learning.

problem Challenges in optimizing deep neural networks as they grow deeper and datasets increase.
method Implemented and compared adaptive gradient methods for supervised and unsupervised tasks on four image datasets.
result Differences in behavior and performance of optimization algorithms during training.

NeuPDE uses neural networks to model time-dependent data using differential equations.

problem Modeling time-dependent data from dynamic datasets.
method Neural network approach with both shallow multilayer perceptrons and nonlinear differential terms.
result Demonstrated on various dynamical systems, NeuPDE outperforms other methods.