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most citedEfficient shallow learning as an alternative to deep learning

37 citations · 82 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Self-attention vector output similarities reveal how machines pay attention

Tal Halevi, Yarden Tzach, Ronit D. Gross +2

The self-attention mechanism has significantly advanced the field of natural language processing, facilitating the development of advanced language-learning machines. Although its…

cs.CL2025

Learning Mechanism Underlying NLP Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning

Yarden Tzach, Ronit D. Gross, Ella Koresh +4

Natural language processing (NLP) enables the understanding and generation of meaningful human language, typically using a pre-trained complex architecture on a large dataset to le…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Tiny language models

Ronit D. Gross, Yarden Tzach, Tal Halevi +2

A prominent achievement of natural language processing (NLP) is its ability to understand and generate meaningful human language. This capability relies on complex feedforward tran…

cs.CV2025

Low-latency vision transformers via large-scale multi-head attention

Ronit D. Gross, Tal Halevi, Ella Koresh +2

The emergence of spontaneous symmetry breaking among a few heads of multi-head attention (MHA) across transformer blocks in classification tasks was recently demonstrated through t…

cs.LG2025★ 10 cited

Unified CNNs and transformers underlying learning mechanism reveals multi-head attention modus vivendi

Ella Koresh, Ronit D. Gross, Yuval Meir +3

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) evaluate short-range correlations in input images which progress along the layers, whereas vision transformer (ViT) architectures evaluate long…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Advanced deep architecture pruning using single filter performance

Yarden Tzach, Yuval Meir, Ronit D. Gross +3

Pruning the parameters and structure of neural networks reduces the computational complexity, energy consumption, and latency during inference. Recently, a novel underlying mechani…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 2 cited

Role of Delay in Brain Dynamics

Yuval Meir, Ofek Tevet, Yarden Tzach +2

Significant variations of delays among connecting neurons cause an inevitable disadvantage of asynchronous brain dynamics compared to synchronous deep learning. However, this study…

cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

Towards a universal mechanism for successful deep learning

Yuval Meir, Yarden Tzach, Shiri Hodassman +2

Recently, the underlying mechanism for successful deep learning (DL) was presented based on a quantitative method that measures the quality of a single filter in each layer of a DL…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

The mechanism underlying successful deep learning

Yarden Tzach, Yuval Meir, Ofek Tevet +4

Deep architectures consist of tens or hundreds of convolutional layers (CLs) that terminate with a few fully connected (FC) layers and an output layer representing the possible lab…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Enhancing the accuracies by performing pooling decisions adjacent to the output layer

Yuval Meir, Yarden Tzach, Ronit D. Gross +3

Learning classification tasks of (2^nx2^n) inputs typically consist of \le n (2x2) max-pooling (MP) operators along the entire feedforward deep architecture. Here we show, using th…

cs.LG2022★ 37 cited

Efficient shallow learning as an alternative to deep learning

Yuval Meir, Ofek Tevet, Yarden Tzach +3

The realization of complex classification tasks requires training of deep learning (DL) architectures consisting of tens or even hundreds of convolutional and fully connected hidde…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

Learning on tree architectures outperforms a convolutional feedforward network

Yuval Meir, Itamar Ben-Noam, Yarden Tzach +2

Advanced deep learning architectures consist of tens of fully connected and convolutional hidden layers, currently extended to hundreds, are far from their biological realization.…