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Inspired by the brain's spike-based computation, spiking neural networks (SNNs) inherently possess temporal activation sparsity. However, when it comes to the sparse training of SNNs in the structural connection domain, existing methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuan Hua , Jilin Zhang , Yingtao Zhang , Wenqi Gu , Leyi You , Baobo Xiong , Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci , Hong Chen

Deep learning models' architectures, including depth and width, are key factors influencing models' performance, such as test accuracy and computation time. This paper solves two problems: given computation time budget, choose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-22 Junqi Jin , Ziang Yan , Kun Fu , Nan Jiang , Changshui Zhang

In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised setting for structure learning of deep neural networks and propose to adopt the efficient coding principle, rooted in information theory and developed in computational neuroscience, to guide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jinhui Yuan , Fei Pan , Chunting Zhou , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We introduce the Sparsity Roofline, a visual performance model for evaluating sparsity in neural networks. The Sparsity Roofline jointly models network accuracy, sparsity, and theoretical inference speedup. Our approach does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Cameron Shinn , Collin McCarthy , Saurav Muralidharan , Muhammad Osama , John D. Owens

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

The architecture of a neural network (NN) plays a critical role in determining its performance. However, there is no general closed-form function that maps between network structure and accuracy, making the process of architecture design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jinwook Hong

It is often the case that the performance of a neural network can be improved by adding layers. In real-world practices, we always train dozens of neural network architectures in parallel which is a wasteful process. We explored $CompNet$,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Jun Lu , Wei Ma , Boi Faltings

Recent work on deep neural network pruning has shown there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve equal or improved accuracy, training time, and loss using fewer network parameters when compared to their dense counterparts. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Justin Cosentino , Federico Zaiter , Dan Pei , Jun Zhu

Sparse neural networks are becoming increasingly important as the field seeks to improve the performance of existing models by scaling them up, while simultaneously trying to reduce power consumption and computational footprint.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Siddhant M. Jayakumar , Razvan Pascanu , Jack W. Rae , Simon Osindero , Erich Elsen

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Sparse neural networks have shown similar or better generalization performance than their dense counterparts while having higher parameter efficiency. This has motivated a number of works to learn or search for high performing sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Rezsa Farahani

Neural networks (NNs) are primarily developed within the frequentist statistical framework. Nevertheless, frequentist NNs lack the capability to provide uncertainties in the predictions, and hence their robustness can not be adequately…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Nastaran Dabiran , Brandon Robinson , Rimple Sandhu , Mohammad Khalil , Dominique Poirel , Abhijit Sarkar

The exponential growth of data has sparked computational demands on ML research and industry use. Sparsification of hyper-parametrized deep neural networks (DNNs) creates simpler representations of complex data. Past research has shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kevin Kwak , Zack West , Hayden Jananthan , Jeremy Kepner

Radar-based perception has gained increasing attention in autonomous driving, yet the inherent sparsity of radars poses challenges. Radar raw data often contains excessive noise, whereas radar point clouds retain only limited information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jialong Wu , Mirko Meuter , Markus Schoeler , Matthias Rottmann

The study of sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become widespread to compress and accelerate models in environments with limited resources. By constraining N consecutive weights along the output channel to be group-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jingyang Xiang , Siqi Li , Jun Chen , Shipeng Bai , Yukai Ma , Guang Dai , Yong Liu

Sparsity has become popular in machine learning, because it can save computational resources, facilitate interpretations, and prevent overfitting. In this paper, we discuss sparsity in the framework of neural networks. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Mohamed Hebiri , Johannes Lederer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN). SNNs are based on a more biologically inspired approach than usual artificial neural networks. Such models are characterized by complex dynamics between neurons and spikes. These are very sensitive to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Thomas Firmin , Pierre Boulet , El-Ghazali Talbi

In this work, we explore the intersection of sparse coding theory and deep learning to enhance our understanding of feature extraction capabilities in advanced neural network architectures. We begin by introducing a novel class of Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jianfei Li , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou

A common technique for ameliorating the computational costs of running large neural models is sparsification, or the pruning of neural connections during training. Sparse models are capable of maintaining the high accuracy of state of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wyatt Mackey , Ioannis Schizas , Jared Deighton , David L. Boothe, , Vasileios Maroulas