arXiv Computer Vision

GradAttn: Replacing Fixed Residual Connections with Task-Modulated Attention Pathways

GradAttn replaces fixed residual connections in deep ConvNets with attention‑controlled gradient pathways, allowing the network to dynamically weight shallow texture features and deep semantic representations. The method extracts multi‑scale CNN features at different depths and regulates them through self‑attention, leading to improved performance over ResNet‑18 on five of eight evaluated datasets, including a +11.07% accuracy gain on FashionMNIST. Analysis of gradient flow shows that controlled instabilities introduced by attention can coincide with better generalization, while positional encoding proves to be dataset‑dependent.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 22

Sublinearly Structured Deep Neural Networks Achieve Feature Learning Consistency for Compositional Functions

Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their performance remain incomplete. From a statistical viewpoint, a natural question is: can DNNs attain feature-learning and prediction consistency comparable to that of classical models?

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Same Predictions, Different Reasons: The Effect of Quantization on Model Explanations

arXiv:2607. 22872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) has become a practical solution for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices by compressing high-precision floating-point weights into low-precision representations without requiring retraining.

By Kazi Kamruzzaman Rabbi, Md. Zami Al Zunaed Farabe, M. Sohel Rahman