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48 results for convolutional architectures

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.

DNArch learns CNN architectures by backpropagation.

problem Discovering optimal CNN architectures.
method Differentiable Neural Architectures (DNArch) learns CNN architectures by backpropagation, controlling kernel sizes, channels, downsampling positions, and depth.
result DNArch finds performant CNN architectures across various tasks.

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.

We present a novel approach which is able to explore the configuration of grouped convolutions within neural networks. Group-size Series (GroSS) decomposition is a mathematical formulation of tensor factorisation into a series of approximations of increasing rank terms. GroSS allows for dynamic and differentiable selec…

2019-12-02abs ↗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 ↗

There are many award-winning pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which have a common phenomenon of increasing depth in convolutional layers. However, I inspect on VGG network, which is one of the famous model submitted to ILSVRC-2014, to show that slight modification in the basic architecture can enhance th…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new deep learning architecture for predicting price movements from limit order books. This architecture uses a causal convolutional network for feature extraction in combination with masked self-attention to update features based on relevant contextual information. This architecture is shown to significa…

2020-02-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes CNN architectures by analyzing receptive fields without training.

problem CNNs often have too many layers, making them resource-intensive and less effective.
method Layer-wise analysis of receptive fields to identify unproductive layers.
result Identifies and removes unproductive layers, improving CNN performance and efficiency.

Bayesian convolutional deep sets improve ambiguity in stationary process modeling.

problem Ambiguity in translation equivariant functional representations due to insufficient data points.
method Introduce Bayesian convolutional deep sets with task-dependent stationary prior.
result Improves representation quality compared to kernel smoother and non-parametric models.

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 ↗

Superior performance and ease of implementation have fostered the adoption of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for a wide array of inference and reconstruction tasks. CNNs implement three basic blocks: convolution, pooling and pointwise nonlinearity. Since the two first operations are well-defined only on regular-s…

2018-03-06abs ↗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 ↗

Convolutional architectures have recently been shown to be competitive on many sequence modelling tasks when compared to the de-facto standard of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), while providing computational and modeling advantages due to inherent parallelism. However, currently there remains a performance gap to mor…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses graph convolutional networks to improve the accuracy of neural architecture search.

problem Improving the precision of sampled sub-networks in weight-sharing NAS.
method Training a graph convolutional network to fit the performance of sampled sub-networks.
result Achieved higher rank correlation coefficient and better final architecture performance.

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.

We introduce a guide to help deep learning practitioners understand and manipulate convolutional neural network architectures. The guide clarifies the relationship between various properties (input shape, kernel shape, zero padding, strides and output shape) of convolutional, pooling and transposed convolutional layers…

2016-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer models perform slower than convolutional networks in learning hierarchical language structures.

problem Understanding how neural networks learn hierarchical language structures.
method Theoretical scaling laws and empirical validation of neural network performance.
result Convolutional networks outperform transformers in learning hierarchical language structures.

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.

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.

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final evaluation. Architectures with a higher validation accuracy during the search phas…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Symmetric CNNs improve sequential recommendation and protein structure prediction.

problem Improving prediction accuracy in sequential recommendation and protein structure inference.
method Developed a CNN architecture that preserves symmetry in convolutional layers, using parameterized convolutional kernels.
result Symmetric structured CNNs achieve better performance with fewer parameters.

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.

In this paper, we introduce Channel-wise recurrent convolutional neural networks (RecNets), a family of novel, compact neural network architectures for computer vision tasks inspired by recurrent neural networks (RNNs). RecNets build upon Channel-wise recurrent convolutional (CRC) layers, a novel type of convolutional …

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Empirical study shows standard CNNs deviate from NTK predictions.

problem Understanding how standard finite-width CNNs behave compared to their infinite-width NTK counterparts.
method Empirical analysis of AlexNet and LeNet architectures.
result Standard CNNs deviate significantly from their NTK counterparts, but deviation decreases with wider networks.

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 ↗

Lightweight architectural designs of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) together with quantization have paved the way for the deployment of demanding computer vision applications on mobile devices. Parallel to this, alternative formulations to the convolution operation such as FFT, Strassen and Winograd, have been ad…

2020-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional neural networks outperform other architectures in streaming time series classification.

problem Efficient deep learning models for real-time data streams.
method Asynchronous dual-pipeline deep learning framework for real-time predictions.
result Convolutional architectures achieve higher accuracy and efficiency in streaming time series classification.

ConViT combines CNN and ViT strengths, improving image classification.

problem Combining the strengths of CNNs and ViTs while avoiding their limitations.
method Introducing GPSA, a form of positional self-attention with a soft convolutional inductive bias.
result ConViT outperforms DeiT on ImageNet while offering improved sample efficiency.

Recent progress in deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have enabled a simple paradigm of architecture design: larger models typically achieve better accuracy. Due to this, in modern CNN architectures, it becomes more important to design models that generalize well under certain resource constraints, e.g. the numb…

2019-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This study presents a novel end-to-end architecture that learns hierarchical representations from raw EEG data using fully convolutional deep neural networks for the task of neonatal seizure detection. The deep neural network acts as both feature extractor and classifier, allowing for end-to-end optimization of the sei…

2017-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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.