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Coded recurrent neural networks with three levels of sparsity are introduced. The first level is related to the size of messages, much smaller than the number of available neurons. The second one is provided by a particular coding rule,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Vincent Gripon , Claude Berrou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Deep neural networks employ specialized architectures for vision, sequential and language tasks, yet this proliferation obscures their underlying commonalities. We introduce a unified matrix-order framework that casts convolutional,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuzhou Zhu

Recent advances in Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) have pushed the frontier of sparse neural network training in structured and unstructured contexts, matching dense-model performance while drastically reducing parameter counts to facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Abhishek Tyagi , Arjun Iyer , William H Renninger , Christopher Kanan , Yuhao Zhu

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

In this work, we leverage advances in sparse coding techniques to reduce the number of trainable parameters in a fully connected neural network. While most of the works in literature impose $\ell_1$ regularization, DropOut or DropConnect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arman Hasanzadeh , Nagaraj T. Janakiraman , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Krishna R. Narayanan

Recently, a new trend of exploring sparsity for accelerating neural network training has emerged, embracing the paradigm of training on the edge. This paper proposes a novel Memory-Economic Sparse Training (MEST) framework targeting for…

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have great potential to solve many real-world problems, but they usually require an extensive amount of computation and memory. It is of great difficulty to deploy a large DNN model to a single resource-limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Minghai Qin , Chao Sun , Jaco Hofmann , Dejan Vucinic

Sparse neural networks are a key factor in developing resource-efficient machine learning applications. We propose the novel and powerful sparse learning method Adaptive Regularized Training (ART) to compress dense into sparse networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Patrick Glandorf , Timo Kaiser , Bodo Rosenhahn

Children possess the ability to learn multiple cognitive tasks sequentially, which is a major challenge toward the long-term goal of artificial general intelligence. Existing continual learning frameworks are usually applicable to Deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan , Guobin Shen

Deep neural networks have recently achieved state of the art performance thanks to new training algorithms for rapid parameter estimation and new regularization methods to reduce overfitting. However, in practice the network architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Minyoung Kim , Luca Rigazio

We present a new approach and a novel architecture, termed WSNet, for learning compact and efficient deep neural networks. Existing approaches conventionally learn full model parameters independently and then compress them via ad hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xiaojie Jin , Yingzhen Yang , Ning Xu , Jianchao Yang , Nebojsa Jojic , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) augment deep networks with uncertainty quantification by Bayesian treatment of the network weights. However, such models face the challenge of Bayesian inference in a high-dimensional and usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhijie Deng , Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exploit many layers and a large number of parameters to achieve excellent performance. The training process of DNN models generally handles large-scale input data with many sparse features, which incurs high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Ji Liu , Zhihua Wu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma , Danlei Feng , Minxu Zhang , Xinxuan Wu , Xuefeng Yao , Dejing Dou

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained edge devices such as FPGAs requires a careful balance among latency, power, and hardware resource usage, while maintaining high accuracy. Existing Lookup Table (LUT)-based DNNs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Binglei Lou , Ruilin Wu , Philip Leong

Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed many principles about neural processing. In particular, many biological systems were found to reconfigure/recruit single neurons to generate multiple kinds of decisions. Such findings have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Yassin Khalifa , Justin Hawks , Ervin Sejdic

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

Contemporary machine learning models, including large language models, exhibit remarkable capabilities in static tasks yet falter in non-stationary environments due to rigid architectures that hinder continual adaptation and lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Akbar Anbar Jafari , Cagri Ozcinar , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

While much of the work in the design of convolutional networks over the last five years has revolved around the empirical investigation of the importance of depth, filter sizes, and number of feature channels, recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Karim Ahmed , Lorenzo Torresani