Graph convolutional networks adapt the architecture of convolutional neural networks to learn rich representations of data supported on arbitrary graphs by replacing the convolution operations of convolutional neural networks with graph-dependent linear operations. However, these graph-dependent linear operations are d…
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This paper completes the construction of arbitrary order conformally invariant differential operators in higher spin spaces. Jan Slovák has classified all conformally invariant differential operators on locally conformally flat manifolds. We complete his results in higher spin theory by giving explicit expressions for …
Study learns convolution operators on compact Abelian groups using regularization.
problem Learning convolution operators on compact Abelian groups.
method Regularization-based approach with ridge regression estimator.
result Characterizes the accuracy of the estimator in terms of finite sample bounds.
Convolution and pooling improve kernel methods in image classification.
problem Understanding the interplay between approximation and generalization in convolutional architectures.
method Characterized RKHS of kernels with convolution, pooling, and downsampling, computed generalization error.
result Convolution and pooling operations trade off approximation with generalization power.
Self attention mechanisms have become a key building block in many state-of-the-art language understanding models. In this paper, we show that the self attention operator can be formulated in terms of 1x1 convolution operations. Following this observation, we propose several novel operators: First, we introduce a 2D ve…
Convolution has been playing a prominent role in various applications in science and engineering for many years. It is the most important operation in convolutional neural networks. There has been a recent growth of interests of research in generalizing convolutions on curved domains such as manifolds and graphs. Howev…
We review the properties of transversality of distributions with respect to submersions. This allows us to construct a convolution product for a large class of distributions on Lie groupoids. We get a unital involutive algebra $\cE\_{r,s}'(G,Ω^{1/2})$ enlarging the convolution algebra associate…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using spatial convolution operators with compact stencils. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all channels, which leads to immense computational cost in the training of and prediction with CNNs. To improve the efficiency of CNNs, we introd…
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Inner product-based convolution has been a central component of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and the key to learning visual representations. Inspired by the observation that CNN-learned features are naturally decoupled with the norm of features corresponding to the intra-class variation and the angle correspond…
Explaining neural network computation in terms of probabilistic/fuzzy logical operations has attracted much attention due to its simplicity and high interpretability. Different choices of logical operators such as AND, OR and XOR give rise to another dimension for network optimization, and in this paper, we study the o…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become indispensable for solving machine learning tasks in speech recognition, computer vision, and other areas that involve high-dimensional data. A CNN filters the input feature using a network containing spatial convolution operators with compactly supported stencils. In pra…
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…
Proposes a new convolutional neural network for non-grid data.
problem Limited applicability of standard CNNs to non-grid structured data.
method Introduces Parametric Continuous Convolution (PCC) with learnable kernel functions.
result Significant improvement in point cloud segmentation and lidar motion estimation.
Paper presents efficient algorithms for convolutional neural networks using Winograd minimal filtering.
problem Resource-efficient implementation of convolutional neural networks.
method Winograd minimal filtering trick applied to M-tap filters (M=3,5,7,9,11) for parallel hardware implementation.
result Approximately 30% reduction in multipliers for fully parallel hardware implementation.
Introduces Finslerian convolution metrics and their properties.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on new metric concept.
method Definition and study of Finslerian convolution metrics.
result Characterization of Finslerian convolution metrics of Riemannian, Minkowskian, and Randers types.
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are state-of-the-art graph based representation learning models by iteratively stacking multiple layers of convolution aggregation operations and non-linear activation operations. Recently, in Collaborative Filtering (CF) based Recommender Systems (RS), by treating the user-item inte…
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.
Motivated by the study of Hörmander's sums-of-squares operators and their generalizations, we define the convolution algebra of transverse distributions associated to a singular foliation. We prove that this algebra is represented as continuous linear operators on the spaces of smooth functions and generalized function…
New bounds for quantile aggregation unify and clarify existing methods.
problem Analytical bounds for quantile aggregation with dependence uncertainty.
method Using inf-convolution of quantile-based risk measures, establish new analytical bounds called convolution bounds.
result Convolution bounds are the best available and provide sharp results in many cases.
Convolution is an efficient technique to obtain abstract feature representations using hierarchical layers in deep networks. Although performing convolution in Euclidean geometries is fairly straightforward, its extension to other topological spaces---such as a sphere () or a unit ball ()---…
Polygonal meshes provide an efficient representation for 3D shapes. They explicitly capture both shape surface and topology, and leverage non-uniformity to represent large flat regions as well as sharp, intricate features. This non-uniformity and irregularity, however, inhibits mesh analysis efforts using neural networ…
Convolutional operator learning is gaining attention in many signal processing and computer vision applications. Learning kernels has mostly relied on so-called patch-domain approaches that extract and store many overlapping patches across training signals. Due to memory demands, patch-domain methods have limitations w…
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 …
New multigrid approach reduces CNN parameters by focusing on structured convolutions.
problem Redundancy in standard CNNs leads to high parameter count.
method Replace standard convolutions with structured multilevel convolutions.
result Linearly proportional number of parameters to network width, no loss in accuracy.
Initialization of parameters in deep neural networks has been shown to have a big impact on the performance of the networks (Mishkin & Matas, 2015). The initialization scheme devised by He et al, allowed convolution activations to carry a constrained mean which allowed deep networks to be trained effectively (He et al.…
Recently, graph neural networks have attracted great attention and achieved prominent performance in various research fields. Most of those algorithms have assumed pairwise relationships of objects of interest. However, in many real applications, the relationships between objects are in higher-order, beyond a pairwise …
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…
The paper extends Laplacian spectra approximations to vector bundles.
problem Approximating the spectrum of the connection Laplacian.
method Extending the graph connection Laplacian to vector bundles and proving spectrum approximation.
result The spectrum of the extended operator approximates the spectrum of the connection Laplacian.
Rotation intertwining maps from the set of convex bodies in Rn into itself that are continuous linear operators with respect to Minkowski and Blaschke addition are investigated. The main focus is on Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms. We show that such maps are represented by a spherical convolution operator. An applicat…
Convolutional analysis operator learning (CAOL) enables the unsupervised training of (hierarchical) convolutional sparsifying operators or autoencoders from large datasets. One can use many training images for CAOL, but a precise understanding of the impact of doing so has remained an open question. This paper presents…
A new method for comparing image probability measures using convolution operators.
problem Efficiently comparing images using conventional sliced Wasserstein methods.
method Proposed convolution sliced Wasserstein (CSW) methods with stride, dilation, and non-linear activation.
result CSW demonstrates favorable performance over conventional sliced Wasserstein in image comparison and deep generative modeling.
New framework for manifold convolutions using toric embeddings.
problem Computational intractability of manifold convolutions.
method Isometric embeddings into tori for global manifold convolutions.
result Global definition of manifold convolutions on finite approximations.
Proposes continuous convolution layers for flexible feature map resizing.
problem Fixed stride limitations in discrete convolution layers.
method Introduces Continuous Convolution (CC) layers that use learned continuous functions.
result Dynamic and consistent resizing of feature maps at any scale, non-integer and axis-dependent.
Designs CNNs for better image reconstruction.
problem Image reconstruction from limited data.
method Parseval convolution operators and chaining of elementary modules.
result CNN-based algorithm yields better results than sparsity-based methods.
Recent advancements in deep neural networks for graph-structured data have led to state-of-the-art performance on recommender system benchmarks. In this work, we present a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) algorithm SWAG (Sample Weight and AGgregate), which combines efficient random walks and graph convolutions on weig…
HKConv learns hyperbolic features by aggregating kernel points.
problem Challenges in learning good hyperbolic representations using Euclidean operations.
method Proposes HKConv, a trainable hyperbolic convolution that correlates local features with kernel points and aggregates them.
result HKConv learns expressive local features according to hyperbolic geometry and enjoys equivariance to permutation and invariance to parallel transport.
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performances in a wide range of applications including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Previous research on characterizing the generalization ability of neural networks mostly focuses on fully connected neural networks (F…
Advanced methods of applying deep learning to structured data such as graphs have been proposed in recent years. In particular, studies have focused on generalizing convolutional neural networks to graph data, which includes redefining the convolution and the downsampling (pooling) operations for graphs. The method of …
We characterize the singular values of the linear transformation associated with a standard 2D multi-channel convolutional layer, enabling their efficient computation. This characterization also leads to an algorithm for projecting a convolutional layer onto an operator-norm ball. We show that this is an effective regu…
Local convolutions bias neural networks towards high-frequency adversarial examples.
problem High-frequency adversarial examples in neural networks.
method Analysis of different linear and nonlinear architectures, focusing on the impact of local convolution operations.
result Local convolutions induce an implicit bias towards high frequency features, leading to high-frequency adversarial examples.
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…
New 3D protein analysis methods improve accuracy.
problem Lack of suitable learning algorithms for protein data.
method Intrinsic-Extrinsic Convolution and Pooling for 3D protein structures.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on protein analysis tasks.
We present a new convolutional neural network-based time-series model. Typical convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures rely on the use of max-pooling operators in between layers, which leads to reduced resolution at the top layers. Instead, in this work we consider a fully convolutional network (FCN) architect…
Paper revisits graph-CNNs using Laplace-Beltrami spectral filters and polynomials.
problem Improving spectral graph convolutional neural networks (graph-CNNs).
method Developed Laplace-Beltrami CNN (LB-CNN) by replacing graph Laplacian with LB operator and approximating spectral filters using Chebyshev, Laguerre, and Hermite polynomials.
result Classification accuracy of LB-CNN is not dependent on the type of polynomials or operators.
Automates neural network design for diverse tasks.
problem Designing neural networks for new, under-explored domains.
method Introduces XD-Operations and a weight-sharing scheme to transform standard backbones into search spaces of operations.
result Models using XD-Operations achieve lower error than baseline and expert-designed networks on diverse tasks.
BankGCN improves graph convolution networks by handling multi-channel signals with adaptive filter banks.
problem Handling multi-channel graph signals with limited architectures.
method BankGCN decomposes multi-channel signals into subspaces and uses adapted filters for each subspace.
result BankGCN achieves excellent performance in graph classification on benchmark datasets.
Functor connects Lie groupoid algebras to bornological structures.
problem Establishing a functorial relationship between Lie groupoid convolution algebras and bornological structures.
method Developed a monoidal functor from differentiable stacks to Morita 2-category of complete bornological algebras.
result Convolution algebras are self-induced and convolution modules are smooth.
We study Kontsevich's deformation quantization for the dual of a finite-dimensional real Lie algebra (or superalgebra) g. In this case the Kontsevich star-product defines a new convolution on S(g), regarded as the space of distributions supported at 0 in g. For p in S(g), we show that the convolution operator f->f*p is…