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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

Conventional deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) apply convolution operators uniformly in space across all feature maps for hundreds of layers - this incurs a high computational cost for real-time applications. For many problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Mengye Ren , Andrei Pokrovsky , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating a dense depth map from a set of sparse LiDAR points. We use techniques from compressed sensing and the recently developed Alternating Direction Neural Networks (ADNNs) to create a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nathaniel Chodosh , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

Many transformations in deep learning architectures are sparsely connected. When such transformations cannot be designed by hand, they can be learned, even through plain backpropagation, for instance in attention mechanisms. However, during…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Peter Bloem

Autoencoders have seen wide success in domains ranging from feature selection to information retrieval. Despite this success, designing an autoencoder for a given task remains a challenging undertaking due to the lack of firm intuition on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jeff Hajewski , Suely Oliveira , Xiaoyu Xing

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular method for interpreting concepts represented in large language model (LLM) activations. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the validity of their interpretations due to the lack of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Subhash Kantamneni , Joshua Engels , Senthooran Rajamanoharan , Max Tegmark , Neel Nanda

It is now well established that sparse signal models are well suited to restoration tasks and can effectively be learned from audio, image, and video data. Recent research has been aimed at learning discriminative sparse models instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper, we introduce a novel layer designed to be used as the output of pre-trained neural networks in the context of classification. Based on Associative Memories, this layer can help design Deep Neural Networks which support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Quentin Jodelet , Vincent Gripon , Masafumi Hagiwara

Vision-Language Pretrained (VLP) models have achieved impressive performance on multimodal tasks, including text-image retrieval, based on dense representations. Meanwhile, Learned Sparse Retrieval (LSR) has gained traction in text-only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jonghyun Song , Youngjune Lee , Gyu-Hwung Cho , Ilhyeon Song , Saehun Kim , Yohan Jo

Real-world processes often contain intermediate state that can be modeled as an extremely sparse activation tensor. In this work, we analyze the identifiability of such sparse and local latent intermediate variables, which we call motifs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kavi Gupta , Osbert Bastani , Armando Solar-Lezama

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) extract human-interpretable features from deep neural networks by transforming their activations into a sparse, higher dimensional latent space, and then reconstructing the activations from these latents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Gonçalo Paulo , Stepan Shabalin , Nora Belrose

This paper proposes a deep autoencoder model based on Pytorch. This algorithm introduces the idea of Pytorch into the auto-encoder, and randomly clears the input weights connected to the hidden layer neurons with a certain probability, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Junan Pan , Zhihao Zhao

Deep neural networks can be trained in reciprocal space, by acting on the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of suitable transfer operators in direct space. Adjusting the eigenvalues, while freezing the eigenvectors, yields a substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Lorenzo Chicchi , Lorenzo Giambagli , Lorenzo Buffoni , Timoteo Carletti , Marco Ciavarella , Duccio Fanelli

This paper focuses on detection tasks in information extraction, where positive instances are sparsely distributed and models are usually evaluated using F-measure on positive classes. These characteristics often result in deficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Exploring deep convolutional neural networks of high efficiency and low memory usage is very essential for a wide variety of machine learning tasks. Most of existing approaches used to accelerate deep models by manipulating parameters or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Chuanjian Liu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

The Transformer has been an indispensable staple in deep learning. However, for real-life applications, it is very challenging to deploy efficient Transformers due to immense parameters and operations of models. To relieve this burden,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Chao Fang , Aojun Zhou , Zhongfeng Wang

Linear concept vectors effectively steer LLMs, but existing methods suffer from noisy features in diverse datasets that undermine steering robustness. We propose Sparse Autoencoder-Denoised Concept Vectors (SDCV), which selectively keep the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haiyan Zhao , Xuansheng Wu , Fan Yang , Bo Shen , Ninghao Liu , Mengnan Du

Finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations is a fundamental problem in signal processing and statistics which has become a subject of interest in recent years. In general, these systems have infinitely many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-09-21 Arash Ali Amini , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Christian Jutten

Large language models (LLMs) encode a diverse range of linguistic features within their latent representations, which can be harnessed to steer their output toward specific target characteristics. In this paper, we modify the internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sumanta Bhattacharyya , Pedram Rooshenas

We provide a new efficient version of the backpropagation algorithm, specialized to the case where the weights of the neural network being trained are sparse. Our algorithm is general, as it applies to arbitrary (unstructured) sparsity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Mahdi Nikdan , Tommaso Pegolotti , Eugenia Iofinova , Eldar Kurtic , Dan Alistarh
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