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most citedLarge language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results

134 citations · 160 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Enhancing Dropout-based Bayesian Neural Networks with Multi-Exit on FPGA

Hao Mark Chen, Liam Castelli, Martin Ferianc +4

Reliable uncertainty estimation plays a crucial role in various safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. In recent years, Bayesian neural netw…

q-bio.NC2024★ 134 cited

Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results

Xiaoliang Luo, Akilles Rechardt, Guangzhi Sun +36

Scientific discoveries often hinge on synthesizing decades of research, a task that potentially outstrips human information processing capacities. Large language models (LLMs) offe…

cs.LG2024

YAMLE: Yet Another Machine Learning Environment

Martin Ferianc, Miguel Rodrigues

YAMLE: Yet Another Machine Learning Environment is an open-source framework that facilitates rapid prototyping and experimentation with machine learning (ML) models and methods. Th…

cs.LG2024

SAE: Single Architecture Ensemble Neural Networks

Martin Ferianc, Hongxiang Fan, Miguel Rodrigues

Ensembles of separate neural networks (NNs) have shown superior accuracy and confidence calibration over single NN across tasks. To improve the hardware efficiency of ensembles of…

cs.CY2023★ 8 cited

Cultural Alignment in Large Language Models: An Explanatory Analysis Based on Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

Reem I. Masoud, Ziquan Liu, Martin Ferianc +2

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) raises concerns regarding their cultural misalignment and potential ramifications on individuals and societies with diverse cultural…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Navigating Noise: A Study of How Noise Influences Generalisation and Calibration of Neural Networks

Martin Ferianc, Ondrej Bohdal, Timothy Hospedales +1

Enhancing the generalisation abilities of neural networks (NNs) through integrating noise such as MixUp or Dropout during training has emerged as a powerful and adaptable technique…

cs.LG2023

Renate: A Library for Real-World Continual Learning

Martin Wistuba, Martin Ferianc, Lukas Balles +2

Continual learning enables the incremental training of machine learning models on non-stationary data streams.While academic interest in the topic is high, there is little indicati…

cs.LG2022

Simple Regularisation for Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation

Martin Ferianc, Miguel Rodrigues

Considering uncertainty estimation of modern neural networks (NNs) is one of the most important steps towards deploying machine learning systems to meaningful real-world applicatio…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

On Causal Inference for Data-free Structured Pruning

Martin Ferianc, Anush Sankaran, Olivier Mastropietro +2

Neural networks (NNs) are making a large impact both on research and industry. Nevertheless, as NNs' accuracy increases, it is followed by an expansion in their size, required numb…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Algorithm and Hardware Co-design for Reconfigurable CNN Accelerator

Hongxiang Fan, Martin Ferianc, Zhiqiang Que +4

Recent advances in algorithm-hardware co-design for deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their potential in automatically designing neural architectures and hardware desig…

cs.LG2021

Optimizing Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks on an FPGA-based Accelerator

Martin Ferianc, Zhiqiang Que, Hongxiang Fan +2

Neural networks have demonstrated their outstanding performance in a wide range of tasks. Specifically recurrent architectures based on long-short term memory (LSTM) cells have man…

cs.AR2021★ 2 cited

High-Performance FPGA-based Accelerator for Bayesian Neural Networks

Hongxiang Fan, Martin Ferianc, Miguel Rodrigues +3

Neural networks (NNs) have demonstrated their potential in a wide range of applications such as image recognition, decision making or recommendation systems. However, standard NNs…

cs.CV2021

ComBiNet: Compact Convolutional Bayesian Neural Network for Image Segmentation

Martin Ferianc, Divyansh Manocha, Hongxiang Fan +1

Fully convolutional U-shaped neural networks have largely been the dominant approach for pixel-wise image segmentation. In this work, we tackle two defects that hinder their deploy…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

On the Effects of Quantisation on Model Uncertainty in Bayesian Neural Networks

Martin Ferianc, Partha Maji, Matthew Mattina +1

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are making significant progress in many research areas where decision-making needs to be accompanied by uncertainty estimation. Being able to quanti…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

VINNAS: Variational Inference-based Neural Network Architecture Search

Martin Ferianc, Hongxiang Fan, Miguel Rodrigues

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accurac…

eess.IV2020

Improving Performance Estimation for FPGA-based Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks

Martin Ferianc, Hongxiang Fan, Ringo S. W. Chu +2

Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerators are being widely used for acceleration of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) due to their potential in improving the perfo…