Deep Multi-Component Neural Network Architecture

Abstract

Existing neural network architectures often struggle with two critical limitations: (1) information loss during dataset length standardization, where variable-length samples are forced into fixed dimensions, and (2) inefficient feature selection in single-modal systems, which treats all features equally regardless of relevance. To address these issues, this paper introduces the Deep Multi-Components Neural Network (DMCNN), a novel architecture that processes variable-length data by regrouping samples into components of similar lengths, thereby preserving information that traditional methods discard. DMCNN dynamically prioritizes task-relevant features through a component-weighting mechanism, which calculates the importance of each component via loss functions and adjusts weights using a SoftMax function. This approach eliminates the need for dataset standardization while enhancing meaningful features and suppressing irrelevant ones. Additionally, DMCNN seamlessly integrates multimodal data (e.g., text, speech, and signals) as separate components, leveraging complementary information to improve accuracy without requiring dimension alignment. Evaluated on the Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD) and CIFAR-10, DMCNN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 99.22% on MELD and 97.78% on CIFAR-10, outperforming existing methods like MNN and McDFR. The architecture’s efficiency is further demonstrated by its reduced trainable parameters and robust handling of multimodal and variable-length inputs, making it a versatile solution for classification tasks.

Keywords

• deep learning (DL)
• image classification
• meaningful neural network (MNN)
• multimodal
• deep multi-components neural network architecture (DMCNN)
• neural network architecture