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In this work, we leverage advances in sparse coding techniques to reduce the number of trainable parameters in a fully connected neural network. While most of the works in literature impose 1\ell_1 regularization, DropOut or DropConnect techniques to induce sparsity, our scheme considers feature importance as a criter…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Two-layer CNNs can overfit well if initialized correctly.

problem Understanding the conditions for benign overfitting in over-parameterized CNNs.
method Extending analysis to fully trainable two-layer CNNs, examining initialization scaling effects.
result Initialization scaling of the output layer is crucial; large scales lead to fixed output behavior, small scales to complex interactions.

A longstanding goal in the theory of deep learning is to characterize the conditions under which a given neural network architecture will be trainable, and if so, how well it might generalize to unseen data. In this work, we provide such a characterization in the limit of very wide and very deep networks, for which the…

2019-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Connections between nodes of fully connected neural networks are usually represented by weight matrices. In this article, functional transfer matrices are introduced as alternatives to the weight matrices: Instead of using real weights, a functional transfer matrix uses real functions with trainable parameters to repre…

2017-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The fully connected layers of a deep convolutional neural network typically contain over 90% of the network parameters, and consume the majority of the memory required to store the network parameters. Reducing the number of parameters while preserving essentially the same predictive performance is critically important …

2014-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the trainability of rectified linear unit (ReLU) networks. A ReLU neuron is said to be dead if it only outputs a constant for any input. Two death states of neurons are introduced; tentative and permanent death. A network is then said to be trainable if the number of permanently dead neurons is …

2019-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

End-to-end Text-to-speech (TTS) system can greatly improve the quality of synthesised speech. But it usually suffers form high time latency due to its auto-regressive structure. And the synthesised speech may also suffer from some error modes, e.g. repeated words, mispronunciations, and skipped words. In this paper, we…

2018-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Echo State Networks (ESN) are a class of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) that has gained substantial popularity due to their effectiveness, ease of use and potential for compact hardware implementation. An ESN contains the three network layers input, reservoir and readout where the reservoir is the truly recurrent netw…

2018-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey of trainable activation functions in neural networks.

problem Improving neural network performance through trainable activation functions.
method Taxonomy and comparison of recent and past models of trainable activation functions.
result Many trainable activation functions are equivalent to adding neuron layers with fixed activation functions and simple constraints.

Many neural speech enhancement and source separation systems operate in the time-frequency domain. Such models often benefit from making their Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) front-ends trainable. In current literature, these are implemented as large Discrete Fourier Transform matrices; which are prohibitively inef…

2020-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This work explores the relation between trainability and dequantization in variational QML models.

problem Understanding the interplay between trainability and dequantization in variational QML models.
method Provide precise definitions of trainability and dequantization, study their relation, and introduce recipes for building PQC-based QML models.
result Identify conditions under which trainability and non-dequantization are not mutually exclusive.

New framework improves interpretability of trainable prompts.

problem Improving task-specific LLM performance with soft prompts remains a black-box method.
method Developed a theoretical framework for evaluating interpretability of trainable prompts, inspired new objective functions.
result Found a fundamental trade-off between interpretability and task performance in trainable prompts.

New proof links initial class bias to DNN trainability, challenging traditional understanding.

problem Understanding the initial class bias in DNNs and its impact on trainability.
method Theoretical proof linking initial class bias to mean field theories of DNNs.
result Efficient learning is connected to a network's prejudice towards a specific class, contradicting traditional understanding.

Statistical generative models for molecular graphs attract attention from many researchers from the fields of bio- and chemo-informatics. Among these models, invertible flow-based approaches are not fully explored yet. In this paper, we propose a powerful invertible flow for molecular graphs, called graph residual flow…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Predicts trainability of deep neural networks using reconstruction entropy.

problem Predicting the initial conditions for trainability of deep neural networks.
method Cascade of auxiliary networks to reconstruct input from activation layers, computing relative entropy.
result Predicts trainability of deep feedforward networks on various datasets with a single epoch.

Architecture optimization, which is a technique for finding an efficient neural network that meets certain requirements, generally reduces to a set of multiple-choice selection problems among alternative sub-structures or parameters. The discrete nature of the selection problem, however, makes this optimization difficu…

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

PatchGT uses non-trainable graph patches to improve graph representation learning.

problem Learning high-level information in graph tasks with direct Transformer models.
method PatchGT segments graphs into non-trainable patches, uses GNN for patch-level learning, and Transformer for graph-level learning.
result PatchGT achieves higher expressiveness and competitive performance on benchmark datasets.

Quantum machine learning faces challenges similar to variational quantum algorithms in training.

problem Challenges in training quantum machine learning models.
method Bridge between variational quantum algorithms and quantum machine learning, applying gradient scaling results.
result Gradient scaling results for variational quantum algorithms can also be applied to quantum machine learning models, revealing new trainability issues.

Quantum ML promises faster data analysis but faces trainability challenges.

problem Challenges in training quantum machine learning models.
method Review of current methods and applications of quantum neural networks and quantum deep learning.
result Opportunities for quantum advantage in quantum machine learning.

Deep learning relies on good initialization schemes and hyperparameter choices prior to training a neural network. Random weight initializations induce random network ensembles, which give rise to the trainability, training speed, and sometimes also generalization ability of an instance. In addition, such ensembles pro…

2018-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses trainable activations to make BNNs behave like GPs.

problem Making Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) behave like Gaussian Processes (GPs).
method Introduced trainable activations and periodic activations to map GP priors to BNNs. Used 2-Wasserstein distance for optimization.
result Method consistently outperforms existing approaches or matches heuristic methods.

Investigates ways to train larger models with fewer resources, finding that test loss depends only on the actual number of trainable parameters.

problem Training larger models for cheaper under hardware constraints.
method Emulates an increase in effective parameters using frozen random parameters or fast structured transforms.
result Scaling laws cannot be deceived by spurious parameters; test loss depends only on the actual number of trainable parameters.

Quantum models face barren plateaus, but specific losses can be trainable.

problem Barren plateaus and loss concentration in quantum generative models.
method Investigated explicit and implicit losses, and their interplay.
result Explicit losses lead to new barren plateaus, while implicit losses can be trainable.

Study finds differences in LTs across tasks and architectures, proposing a consensus-based method for generating refined lottery tickets.

problem Understanding the variability and uniqueness of Lottery Tickets across different image classification tasks and architectures.
method 28 combinations of image classification tasks and architectures, iterative pruning techniques, consensus-based method for generating refined lottery tickets.
result Disproves the uniqueness of Lottery Tickets and connects emergent mask structure to the choice of pruning.

Convolutional neural networks are state-of-the-art for various segmentation tasks. While for 2D images these networks are also computationally efficient, 3D convolutions have huge storage requirements and therefore, end-to-end training is limited by GPU memory and data size. To overcome this issue, we introduce a netwo…

2019-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves deep learning for solving evolutionary equations with trainable hard constraints.

problem Low computational accuracy of standard PINNs in large temporal domains.
method Sequential learning strategies and trainable influence functions for hard constraints.
result Significantly improved computational accuracy and universality of the method.

New approach connects quantum phases to VQA trainability, enabling better scaling.

problem Scalability issues in VQAs, especially barren plateaus.
method Analog VQA ansätze composed of quenches of a disordered Ising chain, tuning disorder strength.
result Thermalized and MBL phases reach maximal expressivity at large MM, but barren plateaus emerge at smaller MM in the thermalized phase.

A new model combines diffusion and random features for better interpretability and comparable performance.

problem Lack of theoretical justification and computational expense in diffusion models, and limited interpretability in random feature models.
method Developed a deep random feature model inspired by diffusion models, derived generalization bounds using score matching.
result The model achieves comparable performance to fully connected neural networks and provides theoretical generalization bounds.

This research improves neural network performance with adaptive activation functions in sparse data settings.

problem Limited data availability in scientific and engineering problems.
method Investigation of two types of adaptive activation functions with individual trainable parameters.
result Adaptive activation functions, especially with individual trainable parameters, enhance prediction accuracy and confidence in sparse data settings.

We propose reinforcement learning on simple networks consisting of random connections of spiking neurons (both recurrent and feed-forward) that can learn complex tasks with very little trainable parameters. Such sparse and randomly interconnected recurrent spiking networks exhibit highly non-linear dynamics that transf…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A quantum circuit designed for efficient statistical model preparation and training.

problem Challenges in preparing and learning statistical models on quantum processors.
method Utilizes the maximum entropy principle to design a statistics-informed parameterized quantum circuit (SI-PQC).
result Improves trainability and interpretability for learning quantum states and classical model parameters.

The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a deep convolutional neural network for microscopy image segmentation. Annotation iss…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are used extensively in medical image segmentation and hence 3D navigation for robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MISs). However, current DCNNs usually use down sampling layers for increasing the receptive field and gaining abstract semantic information. These down s…

2019-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper presents OptNet, a network architecture that integrates optimization problems (here, specifically in the form of quadratic programs) as individual layers in larger end-to-end trainable deep networks. These layers encode constraints and complex dependencies between the hidden states that traditional convoluti…

2017-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing deep architectures cannot operate on very large signals such as megapixel images due to computational and memory constraints. To tackle this limitation, we propose a fully differentiable end-to-end trainable model that samples and processes only a fraction of the full resolution input image. The locations to p…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Conventional decision trees have a number of favorable properties, including interpretability, a small computational footprint and the ability to learn from little training data. However, they lack a key quality that has helped fuel the deep learning revolution: that of being end-to-end trainable, and to learn from scr…

2017-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

VQC-MLPNet combines quantum and classical elements for scalable quantum machine learning.

problem Challenges in expressivity, trainability, and noise resilience of VQCs.
method Hybrid architecture with a VQC generating weights for a classical MLP during training.
result Improved expressivity, trainability, and robustness compared to standalone quantum or hybrid approaches.

Study of infinitely deep but narrow neural networks using NTK theory.

problem Analyzing the role of depth in deep learning with overparameterized networks.
method Infinite-depth limit analysis of MLP and CNN using Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) theory.
result Established trainability guarantee for infinitely deep but narrow neural networks.