journal article·2025-06-08Open access

Dynamic Relevance-Weighting-Based Width-Adaptive Auto-Encoder

Malak Almejalli, Ouiem Bchir, Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail

Applied Sciences· Volume 15· Issue 12

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel adaptive autoencoder model that autonomously determines the optimal latent width during training. Unlike traditional autoencoders with fixed architectures, the proposed method introduces a dynamic relevance weighting mechanism that assigns adaptive importance to each node in the hidden layer. This distinctive feature enables the simultaneous learning of both the model parameters and its structure. A newly formulated cost function governs this dual optimization, allowing the hidden layer to expand or contract based on the complexity of the input data. This adaptability results in a more compact and expressive latent representation, making the model particularly effective in handling diverse and complex recognition tasks. The originality of this work lies in its unsupervised, self-adjusting architecture that eliminates the need for manual design or pruning heuristics. The approach was rigorously evaluated on benchmark datasets (MNIST, CIFAR-10) and real-world datasets (Parkinson, Epilepsy), using classification accuracy and computational cost as key performance metrics. It demonstrates superior performance compared to state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy and representational efficiency.
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OpenAlex topics: Human Pose and Action Recognition · Neural Networks and Applications · Advanced Vision and Imaging

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Affiliations

Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11362, Saudi Arabia

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