IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 20, 2019
The performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) highly relies on their architectures. In order to design a CNN with promising performance, extensive expertise in both CNNs and the investigated problem domain is required, which is not necessar...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 18, 2019
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are of interest for applications for which conventional computing suffers from the nearly insurmountable memory-processor bottleneck. This paper presents a stochastic SNN architecture that is based on specialized logic-...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 18, 2019
In the fields of artificial neural networks and robotics, complicated, often high-dimensional systems can be designed using evolutionary/other algorithms to successfully solve very complex tasks. However, dynamical analysis of the underlying controll...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 12, 2019
Class imbalance is a challenging problem in many classification tasks. It induces biased classification results for minority classes that contain less training samples than others. Most existing approaches aim to remedy the imbalanced number of insta...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 3, 2019
In the postgenome era, many problems in bioinformatics have arisen due to the generation of large amounts of imbalanced data. In particular, the computational classification of precursor microRNA (pre-miRNA) involves a high imbalance in the classes. ...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
May 31, 2019
The traditional multilayer perceptron (MLP) using a McCulloch-Pitts neuron model is inherently limited to a set of neuronal activities, i.e., linear weighted sum followed by nonlinear thresholding step. Previously, generalized operational perceptron ...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
May 29, 2019
At the core of any inference procedure, deep neural networks are dot product operations, which are the component that requires the highest computational resources. For instance, deep neural networks, such as VGG-16, require up to 15-G operations in o...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
May 8, 2019
This paper proposes a theory for understanding perceptual learning processes within the general framework of laws of nature. Artificial neural networks are regarded as systems whose connections are Lagrangian variables, namely, functions depending on...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
May 3, 2019
Learning long-term dependences (LTDs) with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is challenging due to their limited internal memories. In this paper, we propose a new external memory architecture for RNNs called an external addressable long-term and work...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Apr 12, 2019
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) receive trains of spiking events as inputs. In order to design efficient SNN systems, real-valued signals must be optimally encoded into spike trains so that the task-relevant information is retained. This paper provide...