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Deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in many areas of computer vision, including low-level image restoration problems. For image super-resolution, several models based on deep neural networks have been recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Zhaowen Wang , Ding Liu , Jianchao Yang , Wei Han , Thomas Huang

This paper seeks to combine dictionary learning and hierarchical image representation in a principled way. To make dictionary atoms capturing additional information from extended receptive fields and attain improved descriptive capacity, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Tong Zhang , Fatih Porikli

We present a novel network pruning algorithm called Dynamic Sparse Training that can jointly find the optimal network parameters and sparse network structure in a unified optimization process with trainable pruning thresholds. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junjie Liu , Zhe Xu , Runbin Shi , Ray C. C. Cheung , Hayden K. H. So

Incorporating sparsity priors in learning tasks can give rise to simple, and interpretable models for complex high dimensional data. Sparse models have found widespread use in structure discovery, recovering data from corruptions, and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-27 Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Exploiting sparsity in deep neural networks (DNNs) has been a promising area for meeting the growing computation requirements. To minimize the overhead of sparse acceleration, hardware designers have proposed structured sparsity support,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Geonhwa Jeong , Po-An Tsai , Abhimanyu R. Bambhaniya , Stephen W. Keckler , Tushar Krishna

It is known that certain structures of the signal in addition to the standard notion of sparsity (called structured sparsity) can improve the sample complexity in several compressive sensing applications. Recently, Hegde et al. proposed a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-23 Lingxiao Huang , Yifei Jin , Jian Li , Haitao Wang

A fundamental problem faced by object recognition systems is that objects and their features can appear in different locations, scales and orientations. Current deep learning methods attempt to achieve invariance to local translations via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Dimitrios C. Gklezakos , Rajesh P. N. Rao

We propose a communication-efficient optimally structured gradient coding scheme to jointly address straggler resilience and communication efficiency in heterogeneous distributed learning. By establishing a unified framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Despite impressive performance, deep neural networks require significant memory and computation costs, prohibiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. Sparse training is one of the most common techniques to reduce these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Shuren He , Bani K. Mallick

We propose Sparse Neural Network architectures that are based on random or structured bipartite graph topologies. Sparse architectures provide compression of the models learned and speed-ups of computations, they can also surpass their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Alfred Bourely , John Patrick Boueri , Krzysztof Choromonski

Hyperspectral imaging offers new perspectives for diverse applications, ranging from the monitoring of the environment using airborne or satellite remote sensing, precision farming, food safety, planetary exploration, or astrophysics.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Théo Bodrito , Alexandre Zouaoui , Jocelyn Chanussot , Julien Mairal

Sparse and convolutional constraints form a natural prior for many optimization problems that arise from physical processes. Detecting motifs in speech and musical passages, super-resolving images, compressing videos, and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Hilton Bristow , Simon Lucey

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Leveraging on the underlying low-dimensional structure of data, low-rank and sparse modeling approaches have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. However, in many applications the data can display structures beyond simply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Yiwei Lu , Chong Peng , Zenglin Xu

Large Transformer models yield impressive results on many tasks, but are expensive to train, or even fine-tune, and so slow at decoding that their use and study becomes out of reach. We address this problem by leveraging sparsity. We study…

This paper addresses spatial programming of sparse matrix computations for productive performance. The challenge is how to express an irregular computation and its optimizations in a regular way. A sparse matrix has (non-zero) values and a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Hongbo Rong

Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-02-11 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro

Structured sparse coding and the related structured dictionary learning problems are novel research areas in machine learning. In this paper we present a new application of structured dictionary learning for collaborative filtering based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Zoltan Szabo , Barnabas Poczos , Andras Lorincz

We frame the task of predicting a semantic labeling as a sparse reconstruction procedure that applies a target-specific learned transfer function to a generic deep sparse code representation of an image. This strategy partitions training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Michael Maire , Stella X. Yu , Pietro Perona

Predicting the behavior of complex systems is critical in many scientific and engineering domains, and hinges on the model's ability to capture their underlying dynamics. Existing methods encode the intrinsic dynamics of high-dimensional…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jingwen Cheng , Ruikun Li , Huandong Wang , Yong Li