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We consider a discrete optimization formulation for learning sparse classifiers, where the outcome depends upon a linear combination of a small subset of features. Recent work has shown that mixed integer programming (MIP) can be used to…
The Transformer architecture has dominated machine learning in a wide range of tasks. The specific characteristic of this architecture is an expensive scaled dot-product attention mechanism that models the inter-token interactions, which is…
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The aim of this work is to prove that it is possible to realise an optical system which produces as output a light intensity that can be expressed in the same mathematical form of the spin glass Hamiltonian. The optical system under study…