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20192025
most citedHidden Unit Specialization in Layered Neural Networks: ReLU vs. Sigmoidal Activation

68 citations · 87 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2025

Improving the Robustness of Control of Chaotic Convective Flows with Domain-Informed Reinforcement Learning

Michiel Straat, Thorben Markmann, Sebastian Peitz +1

Chaotic convective flows arise in many real-world systems, such as microfluidic devices and chemical reactors. Stabilizing these flows is highly desirable but remains challenging,…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Control of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning in the Turbulent Regime

Thorben Markmann, Michiel Straat, Sebastian Peitz +1

Data-driven flow control has significant potential for industry, energy systems, and climate science. In this work, we study the effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for re…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Solving Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection using Fourier Neural Operators

Michiel Straat, Thorben Markmann, Barbara Hammer

We train Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) surrogate models for Rayleigh-Bénard Convection (RBC), a model for convection processes that occur in nature and industrial settings. We comp…

cs.LG2024

Koopman-Based Surrogate Modelling of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Thorben Markmann, Michiel Straat, Barbara Hammer

Several related works have introduced Koopman-based Machine Learning architectures as a surrogate model for dynamical systems. These architectures aim to learn non-linear measureme…

cs.LG2022

An Industry 4.0 example: real-time quality control for steel-based mass production using Machine Learning on non-invasive sensor data

Michiel Straat, Kevin Koster, Nick Goet +1

Insufficient steel quality in mass production can cause extremely costly damage to tooling, production downtimes and low quality products. Automatic, fast and cheap strategies to e…

cs.LG2020

Complex-valued embeddings of generic proximity data

Maximilian Münch, Michiel Straat, Michael Biehl +1

Proximities are at the heart of almost all machine learning methods. If the input data are given as numerical vectors of equal lengths, euclidean distance, or a Hilbertian inner pr…

cs.LG2020★ 13 cited

Supervised Learning in the Presence of Concept Drift: A modelling framework

Michiel Straat, Fthi Abadi, Zhuoyun Kan +3

We present a modelling framework for the investigation of supervised learning in non-stationary environments. Specifically, we model two example types of learning systems: prototyp…

cs.LG2019★ 68 cited

Hidden Unit Specialization in Layered Neural Networks: ReLU vs. Sigmoidal Activation

Elisa Oostwal, Michiel Straat, Michael Biehl

We study layered neural networks of rectified linear units (ReLU) in a modelling framework for stochastic training processes. The comparison with sigmoidal activation functions is…

eess.IV2019★ 1 cited

Segmentation of blood vessels in retinal fundus images

Michiel Straat, Jorrit Oosterhof

In recent years, several automatic segmentation methods have been proposed for blood vessels in retinal fundus images, ranging from using cheap and fast trainable filters to compli…

cs.LG2019★ 5 cited

On-line learning dynamics of ReLU neural networks using statistical physics techniques

Michiel Straat, Michael Biehl

We introduce exact macroscopic on-line learning dynamics of two-layer neural networks with ReLU units in the form of a system of differential equations, using techniques borrowed f…