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Unitary neural networks are promising alternatives for solving the exploding and vanishing activation/gradient problem without the need for explicit normalization that reduces the inference speed. However, they often require longer training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Hao-Yuan Chang

In this paper we analyze the $L_2$ error of neural network regression estimates with one hidden layer. Under the assumption that the Fourier transform of the regression function decays suitably fast, we show that an estimate, where all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Alina Braun , Michael Kohler , Sophie Langer , Harro Walk

The increasing size of large neural network models, specifically language models and foundational image models, poses deployment challenges, prompting efforts to reduce memory requirements and enhance computational efficiency. These efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Eduardo Lobo Lustoda Cabral , Paulo Pirozelli , Larissa Driemeier

Given that conventional recommenders, while deeply effective, rely on large distributed systems pre-trained on aggregate user data, incorporating new data necessitates large training cycles, making them slow to adapt to real-time user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rafayel Latif , Satwik Behera , Ali Al-Ebrahim

In low-latency or mobile applications, lower computation complexity, lower memory footprint and better energy efficiency are desired. Many prior works address this need by removing redundant parameters. Parameter quantization replaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Cheng-Chou Lan

To improve the throughput and energy efficiency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on customized hardware, lightweight neural networks constrain the weights of DNNs to be a limited combination (denoted as $k\in\{1,2\}$) of powers of 2. In such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ruizhou Ding , Zeye Liu , Ting-Wu Chin , Diana Marculescu , R. D. , Blanton

The large memory requirements of deep neural networks limit their deployment and adoption on many devices. Model compression methods effectively reduce the memory requirements of these models, usually through applying transformations such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Brandon Reagen , Udit Gupta , Robert Adolf , Michael M. Mitzenmacher , Alexander M. Rush , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Low bit-width weights and activations are an effective way of combating the increasing need for both memory and compute power of Deep Neural Networks. In this work, we present a probabilistic training method for Neural Network with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorn W. T. Peters , Max Welling

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are useful for many practical tasks in machine learning. Synaptic weights, as well as neuron activation functions within the deep network are typically stored with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Moritz B. Milde , Daniel Neil , Alessandro Aimar , Tobi Delbruck , Giacomo Indiveri

Even though dense networks have lost importance today, they are still used as final logic elements. It could be shown that these dense networks can be simplified by the sparse graph interpretation. This in turn shows that the information…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Thomas Pircher , Dominik Haspel , Eberhard Schlücker

This paper presents an empirical study on the weights of neural networks, where we interpret each model as a point in a high-dimensional space -- the neural weight space. To explore the complex structure of this space, we sample from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Gabriel Eilertsen , Daniel Jönsson , Timo Ropinski , Jonas Unger , Anders Ynnerman

Deep Neural Networks are highly over-parameterized and the size of the neural networks can be reduced significantly after training without any decrease in performance. One can clearly see this phenomenon in a wide range of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Utku Evci

The expanding scale of large neural network models introduces significant challenges, driving efforts to reduce memory usage and enhance computational efficiency. Such measures are crucial to ensure the practical implementation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Eduardo Lobo Lustosa Cabral , Larissa Driemeier

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) show promising progress in reducing computational and memory costs but suffer from substantial accuracy degradation compared to their real-valued counterparts on large-scale datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Joseph Bethge , Haojin Yang , Marvin Bornstein , Christoph Meinel

Deep learning is a subset of a broader family of machine learning methods based on learning data representations. These models are inspired by human biological nervous systems, even if there are various differences pertaining to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Adriano Baldeschi , Raffaella Margutti , Adam Miller

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang , Yuan Xie

Weight initialization is important for faster convergence and stability of deep neural networks training. In this paper, a robust initialization method is developed to address the training instability in long short-term memory (LSTM)…

A recent work by Ramanujan et al. (2020) provides significant empirical evidence that sufficiently overparameterized, random neural networks contain untrained subnetworks that achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on several predictive tasks. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kartik Sreenivasan , Shashank Rajput , Jy-yong Sohn , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Assumptions about invariances or symmetries in data can significantly increase the predictive power of statistical models. Many commonly used models in machine learning are constraint to respect certain symmetries in the data, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Tycho F. A. van der Ouderaa , Mark van der Wilk