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Adapting robust statistics to neural networks, researchers found neural networks can be more robust with certain loss functions.
ForecastNet uses a time-variant deep feed-forward neural network for better multi-step-ahead time series forecasting.
New study shows neural networks need many samples for training.
Basic binary relations such as equality and inequality are fundamental to relational data structures. Neural networks should learn such relations and generalise to new unseen data. We show in this study, however, that this generalisation fails with standard feed-forward networks on binary vectors. Even when trained wit…
Efficient neural network optimization reduces costs and improves model performance.
We propose a feed-forward inference method applicable to belief and neural networks. In a belief network, the method estimates an approximate factorized posterior of all hidden units given the input. In neural networks the method propagates uncertainty of the input through all the layers. In neural networks with inject…
We investigate the capacity, convexity and characterization of a general family of norm-constrained feed-forward networks.
Proposes a neural network for contextual regression.
General lower bounds on neural network approximation in L^p norm.
Improved bounds on neural network regions using activation histograms.
Adaptive Group Lasso selects important features in neural networks.
The paper develops a neural network-based method for detecting change points in large-scale time-evolving data.
In this paper, we model the impact of oil price volatility on Tehranstock and industry indices in two periods of international sanctions and post-sanction. To analyse the purpose of study, we use Feed-forward neural net-works. The period of study is from 2008 to 2018 that is split in two periods during international en…
DeepPhaseCut uses neural networks to improve Fourier phase retrieval.
Proposes a new CG interpretation of neural networks for better theoretical analysis.
It has been argued in the past that high-dimensional neural networks do not exhibit local minima capable of trapping an optimisation algorithm. However, the relationship between loss surface modality and the neural architecture parameters, such as the number of hidden neurons per layer and the number of hidden layers, …
New methods for uncertainty in neural networks with leaky ReLU activations.
A new algorithm speeds up neural network derivative calculations.
Stability is a fundamental property of dynamical systems, yet to this date it has had little bearing on the practice of recurrent neural networks. In this work, we conduct a thorough investigation of stable recurrent models. Theoretically, we prove stable recurrent neural networks are well approximated by feed-forward …
When a feed-forward neural network (FNN) is trained for source ranging in an ocean waveguide, it is difficult evaluating the range accuracy of the FNN on unlabeled test data. A fitting-based early stopping (FEAST) method is introduced to evaluate the range error of the FNN on test data where the distance of source is u…
Stable processes emerge as limits of deep neural networks with symmetric stable distributions.
New bound for neural nets on non-iid data.
We introduce Dynamic Deep Neural Networks (D2NN), a new type of feed-forward deep neural network that allows selective execution. Given an input, only a subset of D2NN neurons are executed, and the particular subset is determined by the D2NN itself. By pruning unnecessary computation depending on input, D2NNs provide a…
Training deep recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures is complicated due to the increased network complexity. This disrupts the learning of higher order abstracts using deep RNN. In case of feed-forward networks training deep structures is simple and faster while learning long-term temporal information is not poss…
Neural nets solve braid untangling up to length 20.
NN2Poly converts deep neural networks into polynomial models for better understanding.
The paper sets information-theoretic lower bounds for neural networks' parameter recovery and excess risk.
New method uses neural networks to forecast spatial-temporal data.
Two of the most popular modelling paradigms in computer vision are feed-forward neural networks (FFNs) and probabilistic graphical models (GMs). Various connections between the two have been studied in recent works, such as e.g. expressing mean-field based inference in a GM as an FFN. This paper establishes a new conne…
Estimates neural network error approximating compact sets.
This paper removes the finite variance assumption for deep convolutional neural networks.
Learning representations that accurately capture long-range dependencies in sequential inputs -- including text, audio, and genomic data -- is a key problem in deep learning. Feed-forward convolutional models capture only feature interactions within finite receptive fields while recurrent architectures can be slow and …
A recent analysis of a model of iterative neural network in Hilbert spaces established fundamental properties of such networks, such as existence of the fixed points sets, convergence analysis, and Lipschitz continuity. Building on these results, we show that under a single mild condition on the weights of the network,…
Recurrent neural networks show state-of-the-art results in many text analysis tasks but often require a lot of memory to store their weights. Recently proposed Sparse Variational Dropout eliminates the majority of the weights in a feed-forward neural network without significant loss of quality. We apply this technique …
Develops hyperparameter transfer methods for Dense Associative Memories.
This work optimizes reservoir computing models by linking recurrence and non-linear dynamics.
Deep neural networks converge to Gaussian mixtures as layer width increases.
We provide several new depth-based separation results for feed-forward neural networks, proving that various types of simple and natural functions can be better approximated using deeper networks than shallower ones, even if the shallower networks are much larger. This includes indicators of balls and ellipses; non-lin…
Study Gaussian-process limits of neural networks using tensor programs.
In this paper, a neural network-aided bit-interleaved coded modulation (NN-BICM) receiver is designed to mitigate the nonlinear clipping distortion in the LDPC coded direct currentbiased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCOOFDM) systems. Taking the cross-entropy as loss function, a feed forward netwo…
We address the problem of verifying neural-based perception systems implemented by convolutional neural networks. We define a notion of local robustness based on affine and photometric transformations. We show the notion cannot be captured by previously employed notions of robustness. The method proposed is based on re…
We consider in this paper the optimal approximations of convex univariate functions with feed-forward Relu neural networks. We are interested in the following question: what is the minimal approximation error given the number of approximating linear pieces? We establish the necessary and sufficient conditions and uniqu…
New method uses MMAF-guided learning for spatio-temporal probabilistic forecasts.
Study shows deterministic equivalent for neural network kernel convergence.
We propose a max-pooling based loss function for training Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for small-footprint keyword spotting (KWS), with low CPU, memory, and latency requirements. The max-pooling loss training can be further guided by initializing with a cross-entropy loss trained network. A posterior smoothin…
The Resilient Propagation (Rprop) algorithm has been very popular for backpropagation training of multilayer feed-forward neural networks in various applications. The standard Rprop however encounters difficulties in the context of deep neural networks as typically happens with gradient-based learning algorithms. In th…
MTL improves multi-dimensional regression in luminescence sensing.