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New findings show modern neural networks have finite sample complexity in o-minimal structures.

problem Understanding the learnability of modern neural networks in a broad context.
method Analyzing feedforward neural networks definable in o-minimal structures.
result Modern neural networks, including MLPs, CNNs, GNNs, and transformers, have finite sample complexity in the agnostic PAC setting.

K-FAC speeds up training of modern neural networks with linear weight-sharing.

problem Efficiently training modern neural networks with linear weight-sharing layers.
method Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature (K-FAC) applied to linear weight-sharing layers.
result K-FAC-reduce is generally faster than K-FAC-expand for deep linear networks.

DeepRC uses Hopfield networks and attention to classify immune repertoires.

problem Classifying the vast number of immunosequences of an individual.
method Integrates transformer-like attention into deep learning architectures.
result DeepRC outperforms other methods in predictive performance.

Direct Feedback Alignment performs well on diverse deep learning tasks and architectures.

problem The limitations of backpropagation in parallelizing and scaling to modern deep learning tasks.
method Direct Feedback Alignment approach applied to neural view synthesis, recommender systems, geometric learning, and natural language processing.
result Direct Feedback Alignment successfully trains a wide range of state-of-the-art deep learning architectures with performance close to fine-tuned backpropagation.

Introduces a framework using information theory for understanding machine learning.

problem Understanding the effectiveness and design of modern machine learning architectures.
method An information-theoretic approach to learning, focusing on model complexity and architecture.
result Successful architectures have a broad complexity range, enabling learning in over-parameterized model classes.

CogScale benchmarks AI architectures for sequential processing.

problem Evaluating AI architectures' ability to process sequential information efficiently.
method 14 scalable synthetic tasks designed to isolate cognitive and memory abilities at different scales.
result Attention mechanisms and modern state-space models consistently maintain high performance as task difficulty scales.

Square loss performs comparably or better than cross-entropy in neural architectures for various tasks.

problem The superiority of cross-entropy loss over square loss in classification tasks is debated.
method Comparison of several neural architectures on NLP, ASR, and computer vision datasets using both loss functions.
result Square loss often produces better results in the majority of tasks, especially in NLP and ASR.

We introduce SADs to reveal how network architecture shapes score-based generative models.

problem Understanding and predicting the inductive biases of score-based generative models.
method Introducing Score Anisotropy Directions (SADs) to analyze network architecture.
result SADs reliably capture model behavior and correlate with performance.

Unified information-theoretic objectives for training deep neural networks.

problem Difficulty in computing information-theoretic quantities for large deep neural networks.
method Review and unify competing objectives, develop surrogate objectives.
result Surrogate objectives allow applying information bottleneck to modern neural network architectures.

The paper proves neural networks are almost always surjective, impacting model safety.

problem Ensuring neural networks can generate any output, including harmful content.
method Analyzing fundamental neural architectures and generative models.
result Many neural architectures are almost always surjective, allowing for arbitrary outputs.

Modern deep neural networks require a tremendous amount of data to train, often needing hundreds or thousands of labeled examples to learn an effective representation. For these networks to work with less data, more structure must be built into their architectures or learned from previous experience. The learned weight…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Online learning algorithms have impressive convergence properties when it comes to risk minimization and convex games on very large problems. However, they are inherently sequential in their design which prevents them from taking advantage of modern multi-core architectures. In this paper we prove that online learning …

2009-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

TabSurv adapts tabular neural networks for survival analysis.

problem Survival analysis on tabular data using deep learning methods.
method Adapts modern tabular architectures to survival analysis using Weibull distribution or non-parametric prediction. Optimizes SurvHL histogram loss function.
result TabSurv consistently outperforms classical and deep learning baselines on 10 real-world survival datasets.

While neural networks have acted as a strong unifying force in the design of modern AI systems, the neural network architectures themselves remain highly heterogeneous due to the variety of tasks to be solved. In this chapter, we explore how to adapt the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) technique used for explain…

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method creates diverse neural ensembles for better uncertainty estimation and robustness.

problem Creating more robust neural networks for uncertainty estimation and dataset shift.
method Automatically constructing ensembles with varying architectures.
result Ensembles with varying architectures outperform deep ensembles in accuracy, uncertainty calibration, and robustness.

Modern neural networks tend to be overconfident on unseen, noisy or incorrectly labelled data and do not produce meaningful uncertainty measures. Bayesian deep learning aims to address this shortcoming with variational approximations (such as Bayes by Backprop or Multiplicative Normalising Flows). However, current appr…

2017-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Alternatives to recurrent neural networks, in particular, architectures based on attention or convolutions, have been gaining momentum for processing input sequences. In spite of their relevance, the computational properties of these alternatives have not yet been fully explored. We study the computational power of two…

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

BoostTransformer uses boosting to improve transformer efficiency and accuracy.

problem Heavy computational resources and hyperparameter tuning in transformer architectures.
method Augments transformers with boosting principles through subgrid token selection and importance-weighted sampling, incorporating a least square boosting objective directly into the pipeline.
result BoostTransformer demonstrates faster convergence and higher accuracy compared to standard transformers.

Many engineers wish to deploy modern neural networks in memory-limited settings; but the development of flexible methods for reducing memory use is in its infancy, and there is little knowledge of the resulting cost-benefit. We propose structural model distillation for memory reduction using a strategy that produces a …

2017-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyse the effectiveness of modern deep learning techniques in predicting credit ratings over a universe of thousands of global corporate entities obligations when compared to most popular, traditional machine-learning approaches such as linear models and tree-based classifiers. Our results show a adequate accuracy…

2019-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems need to be robust under acoustic variability arising from environmental, speaker, channel, and recording conditions. Ensuring such robustness to variability is a challenge in modern day neural network-based ASR systems, especially when all types of variability are not s…

2016-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Unified method for deriving ridgelet transforms for various neural network architectures.

problem Deriving closed-form expressions for ridgelet transforms in modern neural network architectures.
method Unified Fourier slice method to derive ridgelet transforms for diverse neural network types.
result Systematic method to derive ridgelet transforms for various neural network architectures.

In human perception and cognition, a fundamental operation that brains perform is interpretation: constructing coherent neural states from noisy, incomplete, and intrinsically ambiguous evidence. The problem of interpretation is well matched to an early and often overlooked architecture, the attractor network---a recur…

2019-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks promise scalable performance in high dimensions.

problem Curse of dimensionality in multilayer perceptrons.
method Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem and interpolation methods.
result Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks achieve true freedom from the curse of dimensionality.

Blackwell's theorems influence modern AI through information compression and decision making.

problem Information compression and decision making under uncertainty.
method Theorems developed in the 1940s and 1950s, applied to modern AI.
result Blackwell theorems remain relevant and influence modern AI subfields.

ResNets approximate log-Gaussian at initialization, improving network performance.

problem Understanding the initialization behavior of deep neural networks like ResNets.
method Analyzing ReLU ResNets in the infinite-depth-and-width limit, showing log-Gaussian behavior.
result ResNets at initialization exhibit hypoactivation and interlayer correlations, which are not captured by Gaussian limits.

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term memory networks. The main motivation for these architectural innovations is that t…

2015-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a data-free quantization method for deep neural networks that does not require fine-tuning or hyperparameter selection. It achieves near-original model performance on common computer vision architectures and tasks. 8-bit fixed-point quantization is essential for efficient inference on modern deep learning …

2019-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural network is a state-of-art method in modern science and technology. Much statistical literature have been devoted to understanding its performance in nonparametric estimation, whereas the results are suboptimal due to a redundant logarithmic sacrifice. In this paper, we show that such log-factors are not nec…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Residual neural networks don't help overcome sampling complexity issues.

problem Learning invertible residual neural networks from samples is hard due to the curse of dimensionality.
method Investigated invertible residual neural networks and their sampling complexity.
result Invertible residual neural networks still suffer from the curse of dimensionality in sampling complexity.

Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. In this paper, we study a fundamental question that arises when designing deep network architectures: Given a target network architecture can we design a smaller ne…

2017-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified transformer-based LT-TTD improves ranking efficiency and quality.

problem Decoupled L1 and L2 models in recommendation and search systems cause irreversible error propagation and suboptimal ranking.
method LT-TTD combines two-tower models with transformer expressivity in a unified listwise learning framework, providing theoretical guarantees and UPQE evaluation.
result LT-TTD reduces irretrievable relevant items and achieves better global optimization than disjoint training.

This work explores how neural architecture search can improve adversarial robustness without adversarial training.

problem Improving adversarial robustness of neural networks without adversarial training.
method Experimented with hand-crafted and NAS-based architectures to compare robustness to PGD attacks.
result NAS-based architectures are more robust for small-scale attacks, but hand-crafted architectures are more robust for larger datasets and tasks.

CutMix training technique improves spatial locality in Vision Transformers.

problem Improving spatial locality in Vision Transformers trained from scratch.
method Comparison of Baseline and Modern training protocols on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Tiny-ImageNet.
result CutMix training component significantly reduces Mean Attention Distance (MAD) in early layers of Vision Transformers.

Word2vec is a widely used algorithm for extracting low-dimensional vector representations of words. State-of-the-art algorithms including those by Mikolov et al. have been parallelized for multi-core CPU architectures, but are based on vector-vector operations with "Hogwild" updates that are memory-bandwidth intensive …

2016-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel neural GP kernels learn stable, flexible covariance structures.

problem Scalable and flexible covariance kernels for Gaussian processes.
method Directly learn kriging coefficients and conditional standard deviations using deep neural architectures exploiting permutation-equivariant structure.
result Improved training stability and data efficiency with expressive, non-stationary kernels.

A database of objects discovered in houses in the Roman city of Pompeii provides a unique view of ordinary life in an ancient city. Experts have used this collection to study the structure of Roman households, exploring the distribution and variability of tasks in architectural spaces, but such approaches are necessari…

2012-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗