ENN: A Neural Network with DCT Adaptive Activation Functions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00673v3
• Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:21:24 GMT
• Title: ENN: A Neural Network with DCT Adaptive Activation Functions
• Authors: Marc Martinez-Gost, Ana P\'erez-Neira, Miguel \'Angel Lagunas
• Abstract summary: We present Expressive Neural Network (ENN), a novel model in which the non-linear activation functions are modeled using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) This parametrization keeps the number of trainable parameters low, is appropriate for gradient-based schemes, and adapts to different learning tasks. The performance of ENN outperforms state of the art benchmarks, providing above a 40% gap in accuracy in some scenarios.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The expressiveness of neural networks highly depends on the nature of the activation function, although these are usually assumed predefined and fixed during the training stage. Under a signal processing perspective, in this paper we present Expressive Neural Network (ENN), a novel model in which the non-linear activation functions are modeled using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and adapted using backpropagation during training. This parametrization keeps the number of trainable parameters low, is appropriate for gradient-based schemes, and adapts to different learning tasks. This is the first non-linear model for activation functions that relies on a signal processing perspective, providing high flexibility and expressiveness to the network. We contribute with insights in the explainability of the network at convergence by recovering the concept of bump, this is, the response of each activation function in the output space. Finally, through exhaustive experiments we show that the model can adapt to classification and regression tasks. The performance of ENN outperforms state of the art benchmarks, providing above a 40% gap in accuracy in some scenarios.

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