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Sparse modeling is a powerful framework for data analysis and processing. Traditionally, encoding in this framework is done by solving an l_1-regularized linear regression problem, usually called Lasso. In this work we first combine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-02 Pablo Sprechmann , Ignacio Ramirez , Guillermo Sapiro , Yonina C. Eldar

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success across language, vision, and multimodal tasks, and there is growing demand for them to address in-context compositional learning tasks. In these tasks, models solve the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wei Chen , Jingxi Yu , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu

Sparse tensors are prevalent in many data-intensive applications, yet existing differentiable programming frameworks are tailored towards dense tensors. This presents a significant challenge for efficiently computing gradients through…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Amir Shaikhha , Mathieu Huot , Shideh Hashemian

Efficient continual learning in humans is enabled by a rich set of neurophysiological mechanisms and interactions between multiple memory systems. The brain efficiently encodes information in non-overlapping sparse codes, which facilitates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

This paper presents a unified mixed-integer programming framework for training sparse and interpretable neural networks. We develop exact formulations for both fully connected and convolutional architectures by modeling nonlinearities such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Masoud Ataei , Edrin Hasaj , Jacob Gipp , Sepideh Forouzi

In this work, we propose a robust approach to design distributed controllers for unknown-but-sparse linear and time-invariant systems. By leveraging modern techniques in distributed controller synthesis and structured linear inverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Salar Fattahi , Nikolai Matni , Somayeh Sojoudi

Sparse approximations using highly over-complete dictionaries is a state-of-the-art tool for many imaging applications including denoising, super-resolution, compressive sensing, light-field analysis, and object recognition. Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Ali Ayremlou , Thomas Goldstein , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

Convolutional sparse coding improves on the standard sparse approximation by incorporating a global shift-invariant model. The most efficient convolutional sparse coding methods are based on the alternating direction method of multipliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Farshad G. Veshki , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Sparse training is a natural idea to accelerate the training speed of deep neural networks and save the memory usage, especially since large modern neural networks are significantly over-parameterized. However, most of the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Zonghao Chen , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Parsimony, including sparsity and low rank, has been shown to successfully model data in numerous machine learning and signal processing tasks. Traditionally, such modeling approaches rely on an iterative algorithm that minimizes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Pablo Sprechmann , Alex M. Bronstein , Guillermo Sapiro

We consider the problem of finding a sparse solution for an underdetermined linear system of equations when the known parameters on both sides of the system are subject to perturbation. This problem is particularly relevant to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Reza Arablouei

Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 András Lőrincz , Zsolt Palotai , Gábor Szirtes

While sparse coding-based clustering methods have shown to be successful, their bottlenecks in both efficiency and scalability limit the practical usage. In recent years, deep learning has been proved to be a highly effective, efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Zhangyang Wang , Shiyu Chang , Jiayu Zhou , Meng Wang , Thomas S. Huang

We consider an efficient computational framework for speeding up several machine learning algorithms with almost no loss of accuracy. The proposed framework relies on projections via structured matrices that we call Structured Spinners,…

Retrieval over large codebases is a key component of modern LLM-based software engineering systems. Existing approaches predominantly rely on dense embedding models, while learned sparse retrieval (LSR) remains largely unexplored for code.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Simon Lupart , Maxime Louis , Thibault Formal , Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant

Memristive crossbars have become a popular means for realizing unsupervised and supervised learning techniques. In previous neuromorphic architectures with leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, the crossbar itself has been separated from the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Walt Woods , Christof Teuscher

Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

Block encoding of sparse matrices underpins powerful quantum algorithms such as quantum singular value transformation, Hamiltonian simulation, and quantum linear solvers, yet its efficient gate-level realization for general sparse matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Abhishek Setty

Sparse coding is a basic task in many fields including signal processing, neuroscience and machine learning where the goal is to learn a basis that enables a sparse representation of a given set of data, if one exists. Its standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma , Ankur Moitra

This paper presents a new algorithmic framework for computing sparse solutions to large-scale linear discrete ill-posed problems. The approach is motivated by recent perspectives on iteratively reweighted norm schemes, viewed through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lucas Onisk , Malena Sabaté Landman