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48 results for convolutional structure

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.

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.

In this paper, we develop a new aligned vertex convolutional network model to learn multi-scale local-level vertex features for graph classification. Our idea is to transform the graphs of arbitrary sizes into fixed-sized aligned vertex grid structures, and define a new vertex convolution operation by adopting a set of…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Dropout as a common regularizer to prevent overfitting in deep neural networks has been less effective in convolutional layers than in fully connected layers. This is because Dropout drops features randomly, without considering local structure. When features are spatially correlated, as in the case of convolutional lay…

2020-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-10-03abs ↗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.

Attributed graph clustering is challenging as it requires joint modelling of graph structures and node attributes. Recent progress on graph convolutional networks has proved that graph convolution is effective in combining structural and content information, and several recent methods based on it have achieved promisin…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an extension of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to graph-structured data, including strided convolutions and data augmentation on graphs. Our method matches the accuracy of state-of-the-art CNNs when applied on images, without any prior about their 2D regular structure. On fMRI data, we obtain a signifi…

2018-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Coordinate-independent convolutions on manifolds avoid reference frame ambiguity.

problem Applying convolutions on non-Euclidean manifolds without reference frame ambiguity.
method Developed coordinate-independent and gauge-equivariant convolutions on Riemannian manifolds.
result Coordinate-independent convolutions are equivariant under local gauge transformations.

Molecular "fingerprints" encoding structural information are the workhorse of cheminformatics and machine learning in drug discovery applications. However, fingerprint representations necessarily emphasize particular aspects of the molecular structure while ignoring others, rather than allowing the model to make data-d…

2016-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

We present a scalable approach for semi-supervised learning on graph-structured data that is based on an efficient variant of convolutional neural networks which operate directly on graphs. We motivate the choice of our convolutional architecture via a localized first-order approximation of spectral graph convolutions.…

2016-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This study reveals a Min-Max property in LeNet's convolutional layers, enhancing adversarial robustness.

problem Uncertainty in the connection weights of convolutional layers in neural networks.
method Demonstrates the Min-Max property through back propagation-based training and a simplified convolution formulation.
result The Min-Max property improves adversarial robustness, indicating a stronger uncertainty in the model parameters.

This research studies affine invariance in continuous-domain convolutional neural networks.

problem Recognizing patterns and features under affine transformations in continuous domains.
method Introduces a new criterion for assessing affine invariance, embeds images into the affine Lie group, and analyzes convolution over this group.
result Extends the scope of geometrical transformations that deep-learning pipelines can handle.

The sophisticated structure of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) allows for outstanding performance, but at the cost of intensive computation. As significant redundancies inevitably present in such a structure, many works have been proposed to prune the convolutional filters for computation cost reduction. Although ex…

2018-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New method shows fully-connected networks can learn convolutional structures from data.

problem How to learn convolutional structures from translation-invariant data.
method Data-driven emergence of convolutional structure in neural networks.
result Initially fully-connected networks can learn convolutional structures from their inputs.

Spectral graph convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require approximation to the convolution to alleviate the computational complexity, resulting in performance loss. This paper proposes the topology adaptive graph convolutional network (TAGCN), a novel graph convolutional network defined in the vertex domain. We provi…

2017-10-28abs ↗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.

In response to the development of recent efficient dense layers, this paper shows that something as simple as replacing linear components in pointwise convolutions with structured linear decompositions also produces substantial gains in the efficiency/accuracy tradeoff. Pointwise convolutions are fully connected layers…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves DCNNs with expansive convolution are strongly universally consistent.

problem Theoretical consistency of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs).
method Empirical risk minimization on DCNNs with expansive convolution (with zero-padding).
result DCNNs with expansive convolution are strongly universally consistent.

CTGCN learns dynamic graph embeddings preserving both local and global graph structure.

problem Learning node representations for evolving graphs while preserving both local and global graph structure.
method CTGCN uses k-core based temporal graph convolutional network to learn dynamic graph embeddings.
result CTGCN outperforms existing methods in link prediction and structural role classification.

Introduces new algebraic structures for relational groupoids and proves a reduction theorem.

problem Developing algebraic tools for relational groupoids.
method Introduces relational groupoids and convolution algebras, provides examples, and proves a reduction theorem.
result Establishes a reduction theorem recovering the usual convolution of Lie groupoids.

Deep neural network algorithms are difficult to analyze because they lack structure allowing to understand the properties of underlying transforms and invariants. Multiscale hierarchical convolutional networks are structured deep convolutional networks where layers are indexed by progressively higher dimensional attrib…

2017-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

DCCNNs reduce computational overhead and ambiguity in convolutional neural networks.

problem Reducing computational overhead and ambiguity in convolutional neural networks.
method Introducing a primal learning problem and constructing a dual convex training program, using Fenchel conjugates and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
result Eliminates ambiguity and reduces computational overhead in constructing a large kernel matrix.

Convolutional networks outperform shallow classifiers on certain tasks due to hierarchical structure.

problem Understanding why convolutional networks outperform shallow classifiers on specific tasks.
method Approximation theory, visual tasks with deterministic scrambling, and network performance evaluation.
result Hierarchical structure is crucial for convolutional networks' performance on certain tasks, but not all.

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…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks have been widely used, and most networks achieve excellent performance by stacking certain types of basic units. Compared to increasing the depth and width of the network, designing more effective basic units has become an important research topic. Inspired by the elastic collision model in physics, we …

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

This paper proposes a new Quantum Spatial Graph Convolutional Neural Network (QSGCNN) model that can directly learn a classification function for graphs of arbitrary sizes. Unlike state-of-the-art Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) models, the proposed QSGCNN model incorporates the process of identifying transit…

2018-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional neural networks improve image classification accuracy.

problem Improving accuracy in image classification.
method Analyzing the convergence rate of misclassification risk for image classifiers.
result A rate of convergence independent of image dimension proves the effectiveness of CNNs.

We propose deep convolutional Gaussian processes, a deep Gaussian process architecture with convolutional structure. The model is a principled Bayesian framework for detecting hierarchical combinations of local features for image classification. We demonstrate greatly improved image classification performance compared …

2018-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces data augmentation for graph convolutional networks, proposing Monte Carlo Graph Learning.

problem Lack of transparency in graph convolutional networks.
method Data augmentation through graph structure, training traditional classifiers on expanded training set.
result MCGL shows better tolerance to graph structure noise than GCN on noisy graphs.

We propose a novel Bayesian nonparametric method to learn translation-invariant relationships on non-Euclidean domains. The resulting graph convolutional Gaussian processes can be applied to problems in machine learning for which the input observations are functions with domains on general graphs. The structure of thes…

2019-05-14abs ↗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.