2026· IEEE Signal Processing Letters· Vol 33, pp. 3029-3033· 0 citations· 32 references
Abstract
Deep learning-based active noise control (ANC) algorithms demonstrate superior potential over traditional methods in addressing nonlinear distortion. Although recent deep learning approaches incorporating Volterra Neural Networks (VNNs) have been optimized to tackle nonlinearities, there remains room for further improvement: (1) utilizing element-wise addition in skip connections across different feature processing stages increases the risk of feature aliasing or suppression; (2) directly introducing higher-order terms of the Volterra series is prone to causing overfitting; and (3) models trained under a singular nonlinear condition struggle to adapt to real-world scenarios with varying nonlinearities. To address these issues, this letter proposes a novel time-domain ANC framework. While retaining the modeling capabilities of WaveNet and VNNs, the proposed framework integrates the U-shaped structure and incorporates an adaptive gating mechanism for the higher-order Volterra terms. The proposed method is compared with a state-of-the-art deep learning framework. Additionally, the model is evaluated under several controlled nonlinear conditions, and comprehensive ablation studies are conducted. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing end-to-end representative Deep Neural Network (DNN) methods, and ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of the proposed modules.
A temperature-perceptive SFANC (TP-SFANC) approach is proposed that employs a lightweight one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D CNN) trained using a multi-task learning strategy to dynamically select the optimal control filter.
Boxiang Wang, M. Misol, Zheng-wu Luo et al.· 2 citations
This thesis investigates the application of deep learning techniques to overcome the limitations of conventional ANC systems and proposes a novel Stacked Autoencoder (SAE)- based ANC framework, trained to estimate the optimal anti-noise signal required for noise cancellation.
The analysis demonstrates that the RL-based approach, enabled by an effective neural network initialization strategy, surpasses traditional methods and ML-based DPD schemes such as DLA and ILA and provides a scalable and efficient solution for compensating pattern-dependent nonlinearities in high-speed optical communications.
Arash Rabiepoor, L. Rusch, Ming Zeng· IEEE Open Journal of the Com...· 0 citations
This conceptual study provides a thorough explanation of ANC technology spanning more than 90 years of development, from Paul Lueg's early 1936 patent to the most recent deep learning methods, and shows that deep learning approaches are the ANC technology of the future.
M. Qassab, Q. Ali· ITEGAM- Journal of Engineeri...· 0 citations
When the proposed method is compared to state-of-the-art variants of PINN, it is established that the method is superior to the current methods in a variety of high-dimensional PDEs with very small error magnitudes, even in the 20D case.
Alemayehu Tamirie Deresse, T. Dufera· Scientific Reports· 0 citations
Deep neural networks often contain substantial parameter redundancy, resulting in unnecessary computational cost and energy consumption. This work presents a dynamically adaptive gating mechanism for learning layer-wise sparsity through differentiable masking. In the proposed framework, each network parameter is associated with a self-learning gate that controls its contribution during training. The gating function follows a progressive soft-to-hard transition in which the slope is gradually annealed, enabling the model to move smoothly from continuous parameter weighting to near-binary pruning decisions while simultaneously learning an adaptive threshold parameter. The framework is evaluated across multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), deep neural networks (DNNs), Tabular Transformer models, and benchmarked against $\mathrm{L}_{0}$ regularization and Variational Dropout on convolutional neural networks. Experimental results demonstrate substantial model compression without degrading predictive performance, and in some cases improving it. On MNIST, the gated MLP retains only 14% of weights (86% pruning) while maintaining 98% accuracy. The gated DNN and Tab Transformer similarly outperform their dense counterparts while retaining only 46% and 46.22% of parameters, respectively. Benchmarking further shows that the proposed adaptive gating achieves competitive or superior accuracy-sparsity trade-offs compared with $\mathbf{L}_{0}$ regularization and Variational Dropout. These results demonstrate that the proposed dynamically adaptive gating framework provides an efficient and interpretable pathway for sparsity learning, enabling high-performing lightweight neural network deployment.
Raunak Dev, Mydhily Sankar, Devaprabha Biju S et al.· 2026 International Conferenc...· 0 citations