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48 results for Neural Encoders

Study efficient neural operator learning using variation spaces.

problem Operator learning using encoder-decoder neural networks.
method Introduce variation space for nonlinear operators, establish approximation bounds.
result Algebraic approximation and learning rates for polynomially decaying input and output encoding errors.

Neural networks encode inputs deterministically and categorically, behaving like hash encoders.

problem Understanding the encoding properties of neural networks.
method Analyzed the input space partitioned by ReLU-like activations in neural networks.
result Neural networks can be represented by unique activation patterns, similar to hash encoders.

Paper proposes LCP for structural encodings, outperforming existing methods.

problem Improving Graph Neural Networks performance through effective structural encodings.
method Geometric perspective, Local Curvature Profiles (LCP) for structural encodings, combining with global positional encodings, comparing with rewiring techniques.
result LCP significantly outperforms existing structural encodings and combining LCP with global positional encodings improves performance.

GATES improves neural architecture search by modeling operations as information transformation.

problem Improving predictor-based neural architecture search efficiency.
method GATES models operations as information transformation, covering both node and edge cell search spaces.
result GATES boosts sample efficiency and improves predictor performance.

This work uses decision trees to encode relevant features and their interactions into neural networks, improving model performance.

problem Overfitting in neural networks with many irrelevant variables.
method Defines a mapping to encode decision tree extracted relationships into a neural network.
result The approach outperforms fully connected neural networks and tree-based methods.

The paper identifies saddlepoints in unsupervised auto-encoding neural nets.

problem The risk landscape of unsupervised least squares in auto-encoding neural nets.
method Established an equivalence between unsupervised least squares and principal manifolds, discussed regularization strategies for auto-encoders.
result All non-trivial critical points in auto-encoding are saddlepoints, which are degenerate in overcomplete auto-encoding.

A model learns stock trading rules from raw prices using encoder-decoder neural network.

problem Extracting features from long price sequences for profitable trading rules.
method Neural encoder-decoder framework combined with DRL.
result The model outperforms state-of-the-art models in dynamic environments.

We introduce a novel encoder-decoder architecture to embed functional processes into latent vector spaces. This embedding can then be decoded to sample the encoded functions over any arbitrary domain. This autoencoder generalizes the recently introduced Conditional Neural Process (CNP) model of random processes. Our ar…

2018-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite the superior performance of deep learning in many applications, challenges remain in the area of regression on function spaces. In particular, neural networks are unable to encode function inputs compactly as each node encodes just a real value. We propose a novel idea to address this shortcoming: to encode an …

2018-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the understanding of input sequences through read}, compose and write operations. NSE c…

2016-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) have been shown to outperform other recurrent neural network architectures on a series of artificial sequence learning tasks, yet they have had limited application to real-world tasks. We evaluate direct application of Neural Turing Machines (NTM) and Differentiable Neural Compu…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to train neural networks directly on compressed text data.

problem Training neural networks on compressed text data without decompression.
method Introduces composer modules to encode symbols from grammar compression rules into vector representations.
result Demonstrates that the proposed method can achieve both memory and computational efficiency while maintaining moderate performance.

Performance of neural networks can be significantly improved by encoding known invariance for particular tasks. Many image classification tasks, such as those related to cellular imaging, exhibit invariance to rotation. We present a novel scheme using the magnitude response of the 2D-discrete-Fourier transform (2D-DFT)…

2018-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

PE-GQNN improves spatial data prediction and uncertainty quantification.

problem Poor calibration of predictive distributions in spatial data models.
method Combines PE-GNNs with Quantile Neural Networks and recalibration techniques.
result PE-GQNN outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.

Understanding properties of deep neural networks is an important challenge in deep learning. In this paper, we take a step in this direction by proposing a rigorous way of verifying properties of a popular class of neural networks, Binarized Neural Networks, using the well-developed means of Boolean satisfiability. Our…

2017-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to maximize the translation performance. The models proposed recently for neural ma…

2014-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The condition number predicts efficient information encoding in neural units, aiding model fine-tuning.

problem Efficient information encoding in neural units for various tasks and input modalities.
method Linking the condition number to the log-volume scaling factor and entropy of the output distribution.
result High condition number indicates efficient encoding, reducing overall information transfer.

Affine spiking neural networks learn efficiently and generalize well.

problem Learning with spiking neural networks, especially with positive weights.
method Affine encoders and decoders, continuous parameter dependence, gradient-based training.
result Affine spiking neural networks can approximate shallow ReLU networks and generalize well.

We study the use of a time series encoder to learn representations that are useful on data set types with which it has not been trained on. The encoder is formed of a convolutional neural network whose temporal output is summarized by a convolutional attention mechanism. This way, we obtain a compact, fixed-length repr…

2018-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Derives formulae for general permutation equivariant layers and presents a second order graph variational encoder.

problem Tackles the limitation of previous equivariant neural networks by considering permutations of matrices.
method Derives formulae for general permutation equivariant layers, including matrix permutations. Presents a second order graph variational encoder.
result Latent distribution of equivariant generative models must be exchangeable.

Encoder-decoder networks using convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture have been extensively used in deep learning literatures thanks to its excellent performance for various inverse problems. However, it is still difficult to obtain coherent geometric view why such an architecture gives the desired performance…

2019-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Different neural networks trained on the same dataset often learn similar input-output mappings with very different weights. Is there some correspondence between these neural network solutions? For linear networks, it has been shown that different instances of the same network architecture encode the same representatio…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The large memory requirements of deep neural networks limit their deployment and adoption on many devices. Model compression methods effectively reduce the memory requirements of these models, usually through applying transformations such as weight pruning or quantization. In this paper, we present a novel scheme for l…

2017-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid Bayesian neural networks use function uncertainty for probabilistic inference.

problem Uncertainty in neural network weights is hard to specify and interpret.
method Integrates probabilistic layers with standard deterministic layers for function uncertainty.
result Improves probabilistic inference by encoding function uncertainty.

In this work, we propose an end-to-end block-based auto-encoder system for image compression. We introduce novel contributions to neural-network based image compression, mainly in achieving binarization simulation, variable bit rates with multiple networks, entropy-friendly representations, inference-stage code optimiz…

2018-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a functional encoder-decoder approach to supervised meta-learning, where labeled data is encoded into an infinite-dimensional functional representation rather than a finite-dimensional one. Furthermore, rather than directly producing the representation, we learn a neural update rule resembling functional gra…

2019-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph-to-Tree Neural Networks improve structured input-output translation in tasks like semantic parsing and math word problems.

problem Improving performance on tasks like semantic parsing and math word problem solving.
method Graph-to-Tree Neural Networks, consisting of a graph encoder and a hierarchical tree decoder.
result Graph2Tree model outperforms or matches state-of-the-art models on neural semantic parsing and math word problem tasks.

Deep neural networks solve Raven's Progressive Matrices with high accuracy.

problem Testing relational reasoning in machine learning systems.
method Combining Wild Relation Networks with Multi-Layer Relation Networks and introducing Magnitude Encoding.
result Deep neural networks achieve 98.0 percent accuracy, significantly improving over previous methods.