本文提出了一种新的和富有激光激活方法，被称为FPLUS，其利用具有形式的极性标志的数学功率函数。它是通过常见的逆转操作来启发，同时赋予仿生学的直观含义。制剂在某些先前知识和预期特性的条件下理论上得出，然后通过使用典型的基准数据集通过一系列实验验证其可行性，其结果表明我们的方法在许多激活功能中拥有卓越的竞争力，以及兼容稳定性许多CNN架构。此外，我们将呈现给更广泛类型的功能延伸到称为PFPlus的函数，具有两个可以固定的或学习的参数，以便增加其表现力的容量，并且相同的测试结果验证了这种改进。

受生物神经元的启发，激活功能在许多现实世界中常用的任何人工神经网络的学习过程中起着重要作用。文献中已经提出了各种激活功能，用于分类和回归任务。在这项工作中，我们调查了过去已经使用的激活功能以及当前的最新功能。特别是，我们介绍了多年来激活功能的各种发展以及这些激活功能的优势以及缺点或局限性。我们还讨论了经典（固定）激活功能，包括整流器单元和自适应激活功能。除了基于表征的激活函数的分类法外，还提出了基于应用的激活函数的分类法。为此，对MNIST，CIFAR-10和CIFAR-100等分类数据集进行了各种固定和自适应激活函数的系统比较。近年来，已经出现了一个具有物理信息的机器学习框架，以解决与科学计算有关的问题。为此，我们还讨论了在物理知识的机器学习框架中使用的激活功能的各种要求。此外，使用Tensorflow，Pytorch和Jax等各种机器学习库之间进行了不同的固定和自适应激活函数进行各种比较。

这是一门专门针对STEM学生开发的介绍性机器学习课程。我们的目标是为有兴趣的读者提供基础知识，以在自己的项目中使用机器学习，并将自己熟悉术语作为进一步阅读相关文献的基础。在这些讲义中，我们讨论受监督，无监督和强化学习。注释从没有神经网络的机器学习方法的说明开始，例如原理分析，T-SNE，聚类以及线性回归和线性分类器。我们继续介绍基本和先进的神经网络结构，例如密集的进料和常规神经网络，经常性的神经网络，受限的玻尔兹曼机器，（变性）自动编码器，生成的对抗性网络。讨论了潜在空间表示的解释性问题，并使用梦和对抗性攻击的例子。最后一部分致力于加强学习，我们在其中介绍了价值功能和政策学习的基本概念。

An activation function has a significant impact on the efficiency and robustness of the neural networks. As an alternative, we evolved a cutting-edge non-monotonic activation function, Negative Stimulated Hybrid Activation Function (Nish). It acts as a Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) function for the positive region and a sinus-sigmoidal function for the negative region. In other words, it incorporates a sigmoid and a sine function and gaining new dynamics over classical ReLU. We analyzed the consistency of the Nish for different combinations of essential networks and most common activation functions using on several most popular benchmarks. From the experimental results, we reported that the accuracy rates achieved by the Nish is slightly better than compared to the Mish in classification.

近年来，神经网络已显示出巨大的增长，以解决许多问题。已经引入了各种类型的神经网络来处理不同类型的问题。但是，任何神经网络的主要目标是使用层层次结构将非线性可分离的输入数据转换为更线性可分离的抽象特征。这些层是线性和非线性函数的组合。最流行和常见的非线性层是激活功能（AFS），例如Logistic Sigmoid，Tanh，Relu，Elu，Swish和Mish。在本文中，在神经网络中为AFS提供了全面的概述和调查，以进行深度学习。涵盖了不同类别的AFS，例如Logistic Sigmoid和Tanh，基于RELU，基于ELU和基于学习的AFS。还指出了AFS的几种特征，例如输出范围，单调性和平滑度。在具有不同类型的数据的不同网络的18个最先进的AF中，还进行了性能比较。提出了AFS的见解，以使研究人员受益于进一步的研究和从业者在不同选择中进行选择。用于实验比较的代码发布于：\ url {https://github.com/shivram1987/activationfunctions}。

这本数字本书包含在物理模拟的背景下与深度学习相关的一切实际和全面的一切。尽可能多，所有主题都带有Jupyter笔记本的形式的动手代码示例，以便快速入门。除了标准的受监督学习的数据中，我们将看看物理丢失约束，更紧密耦合的学习算法，具有可微分的模拟，以及加强学习和不确定性建模。我们生活在令人兴奋的时期：这些方法具有从根本上改变计算机模拟可以实现的巨大潜力。

Alphazero，Leela Chess Zero和Stockfish Nnue革新了计算机国际象棋。本书对此类引擎的技术内部工作进行了完整的介绍。该书分为四个主要章节 - 不包括第1章（简介）和第6章（结论）：第2章引入神经网络，涵盖了所有用于构建深层网络的基本构建块，例如Alphazero使用的网络。内容包括感知器，后传播和梯度下降，分类，回归，多层感知器，矢量化技术，卷积网络，挤压网络，挤压和激发网络，完全连接的网络，批处理归一化和横向归一化和跨性线性单位，残留层，剩余层，过度效果和底漆。第3章介绍了用于国际象棋发动机以及Alphazero使用的经典搜索技术。内容包括minimax，alpha-beta搜索和蒙特卡洛树搜索。第4章展示了现代国际象棋发动机的设计。除了开创性的Alphago，Alphago Zero和Alphazero我们涵盖Leela Chess Zero，Fat Fritz，Fat Fritz 2以及有效更新的神经网络（NNUE）以及MAIA。第5章是关于实施微型α。 Shexapawn是国际象棋的简约版本，被用作为此的示例。 Minimax搜索可以解决六ap峰，并产生了监督学习的培训位置。然后，作为比较，实施了类似Alphazero的训练回路，其中通过自我游戏进行训练与强化学习结合在一起。最后，比较了类似α的培训和监督培训。

Neural networks require careful weight initialization to prevent signals from exploding or vanishing. Existing initialization schemes solve this problem in specific cases by assuming that the network has a certain activation function or topology. It is difficult to derive such weight initialization strategies, and modern architectures therefore often use these same initialization schemes even though their assumptions do not hold. This paper introduces AutoInit, a weight initialization algorithm that automatically adapts to different neural network architectures. By analytically tracking the mean and variance of signals as they propagate through the network, AutoInit appropriately scales the weights at each layer to avoid exploding or vanishing signals. Experiments demonstrate that AutoInit improves performance of convolutional, residual, and transformer networks across a range of activation function, dropout, weight decay, learning rate, and normalizer settings, and does so more reliably than data-dependent initialization methods. This flexibility allows AutoInit to initialize models for everything from small tabular tasks to large datasets such as ImageNet. Such generality turns out particularly useful in neural architecture search and in activation function discovery. In these settings, AutoInit initializes each candidate appropriately, making performance evaluations more accurate. AutoInit thus serves as an automatic configuration tool that makes design of new neural network architectures more robust. The AutoInit package provides a wrapper around TensorFlow models and is available at https://github.com/cognizant-ai-labs/autoinit.

这项调查的目的是介绍对深神经网络的近似特性的解释性回顾。具体而言，我们旨在了解深神经网络如何以及为什么要优于其他经典线性和非线性近似方法。这项调查包括三章。在第1章中，我们回顾了深层网络及其组成非线性结构的关键思想和概念。我们通过在解决回归和分类问题时将其作为优化问题来形式化神经网络问题。我们简要讨论用于解决优化问题的随机梯度下降算法以及用于解决优化问题的后传播公式，并解决了与神经网络性能相关的一些问题，包括选择激活功能，成本功能，过度适应问题和正则化。在第2章中，我们将重点转移到神经网络的近似理论上。我们首先介绍多项式近似中的密度概念，尤其是研究实现连续函数的Stone-WeierStrass定理。然后，在线性近似的框架内，我们回顾了馈电网络的密度和收敛速率的一些经典结果，然后在近似Sobolev函数中进行有关深网络复杂性的最新发展。在第3章中，利用非线性近似理论，我们进一步详细介绍了深度和近似网络与其他经典非线性近似方法相比的近似优势。

The choice of activation functions and their motivation is a long-standing issue within the neural network community. Neuronal representations within artificial neural networks are commonly understood as logits, representing the log-odds score of presence of features within the stimulus. We derive logit-space operators equivalent to probabilistic Boolean logic-gates AND, OR, and XNOR for independent probabilities. Such theories are important to formalize more complex dendritic operations in real neurons, and these operations can be used as activation functions within a neural network, introducing probabilistic Boolean-logic as the core operation of the neural network. Since these functions involve taking multiple exponents and logarithms, they are computationally expensive and not well suited to be directly used within neural networks. Consequently, we construct efficient approximations named $\text{AND}_\text{AIL}$ (the AND operator Approximate for Independent Logits), $\text{OR}_\text{AIL}$, and $\text{XNOR}_\text{AIL}$, which utilize only comparison and addition operations, have well-behaved gradients, and can be deployed as activation functions in neural networks. Like MaxOut, $\text{AND}_\text{AIL}$ and $\text{OR}_\text{AIL}$ are generalizations of ReLU to two-dimensions. While our primary aim is to formalize dendritic computations within a logit-space probabilistic-Boolean framework, we deploy these new activation functions, both in isolation and in conjunction to demonstrate their effectiveness on a variety of tasks including image classification, transfer learning, abstract reasoning, and compositional zero-shot learning.

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully chosen trade-off between performance and resource consumption in terms of computation and energy. The development of such approaches is among the major challenges in current machine learning research and key to ensure a smooth transition of machine learning technology from a scientific environment with virtually unlimited computing resources into everyday's applications. In this article, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of machine learning techniques facilitating these real-world requirements. In particular, we focus on deep neural networks (DNNs), the predominant machine learning models of the past decade. We give a comprehensive overview of the vast literature that can be mainly split into three non-mutually exclusive categories: (i) quantized neural networks, (ii) network pruning, and (iii) structural efficiency. These techniques can be applied during training or as post-processing, and they are widely used to reduce the computational demands in terms of memory footprint, inference speed, and energy efficiency. We also briefly discuss different concepts of embedded hardware for DNNs and their compatibility with machine learning techniques as well as potential for energy and latency reduction. We substantiate our discussion with experiments on well-known benchmark datasets using compression techniques (quantization, pruning) for a set of resource-constrained embedded systems, such as CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. The obtained results highlight the difficulty of finding good trade-offs between resource efficiency and predictive performance.

Training generative adversarial networks (GAN) using too little data typically leads to discriminator overfitting, causing training to diverge. We propose an adaptive discriminator augmentation mechanism that significantly stabilizes training in limited data regimes. The approach does not require changes to loss functions or network architectures, and is applicable both when training from scratch and when fine-tuning an existing GAN on another dataset. We demonstrate, on several datasets, that good results are now possible using only a few thousand training images, often matching StyleGAN2 results with an order of magnitude fewer images. We expect this to open up new application domains for GANs. We also find that the widely used CIFAR-10 is, in fact, a limited data benchmark, and improve the record FID from 5.59 to 2.42.

The study of feature propagation at initialization in neural networks lies at the root of numerous initialization designs. An assumption very commonly made in the field states that the pre-activations are Gaussian. Although this convenient Gaussian hypothesis can be justified when the number of neurons per layer tends to infinity, it is challenged by both theoretical and experimental works for finite-width neural networks. Our major contribution is to construct a family of pairs of activation functions and initialization distributions that ensure that the pre-activations remain Gaussian throughout the network's depth, even in narrow neural networks. In the process, we discover a set of constraints that a neural network should fulfill to ensure Gaussian pre-activations. Additionally, we provide a critical review of the claims of the Edge of Chaos line of works and build an exact Edge of Chaos analysis. We also propose a unified view on pre-activations propagation, encompassing the framework of several well-known initialization procedures. Finally, our work provides a principled framework for answering the much-debated question: is it desirable to initialize the training of a neural network whose pre-activations are ensured to be Gaussian?

Multilayer Neural Networks trained with the backpropagation algorithm constitute the best example of a successful Gradient-Based Learning technique. Given an appropriate network architecture, Gradient-Based Learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing. This paper reviews various methods applied to handwritten character recognition and compares them on a standard handwritten digit recognition task. Convolutional Neural Networks, that are specifically designed to deal with the variability of 2D shapes, are shown to outperform all other techniques.Real-life document recognition systems are composed of multiple modules including eld extraction, segmentation, recognition, and language modeling. A new learning paradigm, called Graph Transformer Networks (GTN), allows such multi-module systems to be trained globally using Gradient-Based methods so as to minimize an overall performance measure.Two systems for on-line handwriting recognition are described. Experiments demonstrate the advantage of global training, and the exibility of Graph Transformer Networks.A Graph Transformer Network for reading bank check is also described. It uses Convolutional Neural Network character recognizers combined with global training techniques to provides record accuracy on business and personal checks. It is deployed commercially and reads several million checks per day.

These notes were compiled as lecture notes for a course developed and taught at the University of the Southern California. They should be accessible to a typical engineering graduate student with a strong background in Applied Mathematics. The main objective of these notes is to introduce a student who is familiar with concepts in linear algebra and partial differential equations to select topics in deep learning. These lecture notes exploit the strong connections between deep learning algorithms and the more conventional techniques of computational physics to achieve two goals. First, they use concepts from computational physics to develop an understanding of deep learning algorithms. Not surprisingly, many concepts in deep learning can be connected to similar concepts in computational physics, and one can utilize this connection to better understand these algorithms. Second, several novel deep learning algorithms can be used to solve challenging problems in computational physics. Thus, they offer someone who is interested in modeling a physical phenomena with a complementary set of tools.

即使机器学习算法已经在数据科学中发挥了重要作用，但许多当前方法对输入数据提出了不现实的假设。由于不兼容的数据格式，或数据集中的异质，分层或完全缺少的数据片段，因此很难应用此类方法。作为解决方案，我们提出了一个用于样本表示，模型定义和培训的多功能，统一的框架，称为“ Hmill”。我们深入审查框架构建和扩展的机器学习的多个范围范式。从理论上讲，为HMILL的关键组件的设计合理，我们将通用近似定理的扩展显示到框架中实现的模型所实现的所有功能的集合。本文还包含有关我们实施中技术和绩效改进的详细讨论，该讨论将在MIT许可下发布供下载。该框架的主要资产是其灵活性，它可以通过相同的工具对不同的现实世界数据源进行建模。除了单独观察到每个对象的一组属性的标准设置外，我们解释了如何在框架中实现表示整个对象系统的图表中的消息推断。为了支持我们的主张，我们使用框架解决了网络安全域的三个不同问题。第一种用例涉及来自原始网络观察结果的IoT设备识别。在第二个问题中，我们研究了如何使用以有向图表示的操作系统的快照可以对恶意二进制文件进行分类。最后提供的示例是通过网络中实体之间建模域黑名单扩展的任务。在所有三个问题中，基于建议的框架的解决方案可实现与专业方法相当的性能。

The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind the data. Although specific domain knowledge can be used to help design representations, learning with generic priors can also be used, and the quest for AI is motivating the design of more powerful representation-learning algorithms implementing such priors. This paper reviews recent work in the area of unsupervised feature learning and deep learning, covering advances in probabilistic models, auto-encoders, manifold learning, and deep networks. This motivates longer-term unanswered questions about the appropriate objectives for learning good representations, for computing representations (i.e., inference), and the geometrical connections between representation learning, density estimation and manifold learning.

深度学习使用由其重量进行参数化的神经网络。通常通过调谐重量来直接最小化给定损耗功能来训练神经网络。在本文中，我们建议将权重重新参数转化为网络中各个节点的触发强度的目标。给定一组目标，可以计算使得发射强度最佳地满足这些目标的权重。有人认为，通过我们称之为级联解压缩的过程，使用培训的目标解决爆炸梯度的问题，并使损失功能表面更加光滑，因此导致更容易，培训更快，以及潜在的概括，神经网络。它还允许更容易地学习更深层次和经常性的网络结构。目标对重量的必要转换有额外的计算费用，这是在许多情况下可管理的。在目标空间中学习可以与现有的神经网络优化器相结合，以额外收益。实验结果表明了使用目标空间的速度，以及改进的泛化的示例，用于全连接的网络和卷积网络，以及调用和处理长时间序列的能力，并使用经常性网络进行自然语言处理。

由于稀疏神经网络通常包含许多零权重，因此可以在不降低网络性能的情况下潜在地消除这些不必要的网络连接。因此，设计良好的稀疏神经网络具有显着降低拖鞋和计算资源的潜力。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新的自动修剪方法 - 稀疏连接学习（SCL）。具体地，重量被重新参数化为可培训权重变量和二进制掩模的元素方向乘法。因此，由二进制掩模完全描述网络连接，其由单位步进函数调制。理论上，从理论上证明了使用直通估计器（STE）进行网络修剪的基本原理。这一原则是STE的代理梯度应该是积极的，确保掩模变量在其最小值处收敛。在找到泄漏的Relu后，SoftPlus和Identity Stes可以满足这个原理，我们建议采用SCL的身份STE以进行离散面膜松弛。我们发现不同特征的面具梯度非常不平衡，因此，我们建议将每个特征的掩模梯度标准化以优化掩码变量训练。为了自动训练稀疏掩码，我们将网络连接总数作为我们的客观函数中的正则化术语。由于SCL不需要由网络层设计人员定义的修剪标准或超级参数，因此在更大的假设空间中探讨了网络，以实现最佳性能的优化稀疏连接。 SCL克服了现有自动修剪方法的局限性。实验结果表明，SCL可以自动学习并选择各种基线网络结构的重要网络连接。 SCL培训的深度学习模型以稀疏性，精度和减少脚波特的SOTA人类设计和自动修剪方法训练。

在过去的几年中，计算机视觉的显着进步总的来说是归因于深度学习，这是由于大量标记数据的可用性所推动的，并与GPU范式的爆炸性增长配对。在订阅这一观点的同时，本书批评了该领域中所谓的科学进步，并在基于信息的自然法则的框架内提出了对愿景的调查。具体而言，目前的作品提出了有关视觉的基本问题，这些问题尚未被理解，引导读者走上了一个由新颖挑战引起的与机器学习基础共鸣的旅程。中心论点是，要深入了解视觉计算过程，有必要超越通用机器学习算法的应用，而要专注于考虑到视觉信号的时空性质的适当学习理论。