# Ensemble Neural Representation Networks

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04124 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.04124/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 14 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 Oct 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [DeepSDF: Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions for Shape Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.05103/) (2019)
- [Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.09661/) (2020)
- [Fourier Features Let Networks Learn High Frequency Functions in Low Dimensional Domains](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.10739/) (2020)
- [Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06434/) (2015)
- [Occupancy Networks: Learning 3D Reconstruction in Function Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.03828/) (2018)
- [On the Spectral Bias of Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.08734/) (2018)
- [Learning Implicit Fields for Generative Shape Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02822/) (2018)
- [Convolutional Occupancy Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.04618/) (2020)
- [KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13744/) (2021)
- [DeepVoxels: Learning Persistent 3D Feature Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.01024/) (2018)
- [SAL: Sign Agnostic Learning of Shapes from Raw Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.10414/) (2019)
- [Local Implicit Grid Representations for 3D Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.08981/) (2020)
- [Deep Local Shapes: Learning Local SDF Priors for Detailed 3D Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.10983/) (2020)
- [Modulated Periodic Activations for Generalizable Local Functional Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.03960/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Implicit Neural Representation in Medical Imaging: A Comparative Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.16142/) (2023)
- [INCODE: Implicit Neural Conditioning with Prior Knowledge Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.18846/) (2023)
- [TINC: Tree-structured Implicit Neural Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.06689/) (2022)
- [SCI: A Spectrum Concentrated Implicit Neural Compression for Biomedical Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.15180/) (2022)
- [A Unified Theory of Sinusoidal Activation Families for Implicit Neural Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.00869/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) has recently attracted considerable attention for storing various types of signals in continuous forms. The existing INR networks require lengthy training processes and high-performance computational resources. In this paper, we propose a novel sub-optimal ensemble architecture for INR that resolves the aforementioned problems. In this architecture, the representation task is divided into several sub-tasks done by independent sub-networks. We show that the performance of the proposed ensemble INR architecture may decrease if the dimensions of sub-networks increase. Hence, it is vital to suggest an optimization algorithm to find the sub-optimal structure of the ensemble network, which is done in this paper. According to the simulation results, the proposed architecture not only has significantly fewer floating-point operations (FLOPs) and less training time, but it also has better performance in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) compared to those of its counterparts.