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In this work, we present some applications of random matrix theory for the training of deep neural networks. Recently, random matrix theory (RMT) has been applied to the overfitting problem in deep learning. Specifically, it has been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yitzchak Shmalo , Jonathan Jenkins , Oleksii Krupchytskyi

The state-of-the-art approaches employ approximate computing to reduce the energy consumption of DNN hardware. Approximate DNNs then require extensive retraining afterwards to recover from the accuracy loss caused by the use of approximate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Vojtech Mrazek , Zdenek Vasicek , Lukas Sekanina , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

This paper introduces Selective-Backprop, a technique that accelerates the training of deep neural networks (DNNs) by prioritizing examples with high loss at each iteration. Selective-Backprop uses the output of a training example's forward…

In Hezaveh et al. 2017 we showed that deep learning can be used for model parameter estimation and trained convolutional neural networks to determine the parameters of strong gravitational lensing systems. Here we demonstrate a method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Yashar D. Hezaveh , Risa H. Wechsler

Deep neural network (DNN)-based receivers offer a powerful alternative to classical model-based designs for wireless communication, especially in complex and nonlinear propagation environments. However, their adoption is challenged by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yakov Gusakov , Osvaldo Simeone , Tirza Routtenberg , Nir Shlezinger

Regularizing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is essential for improving generalizability and preventing overfitting. Fixed penalty methods, though common, lack adaptability and suffer from hyperparameter sensitivity. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Diogo Lavado , Cláudia Soares , Alessandra Micheletti

The increasing complexity of modern deep neural network models and the expanding sizes of datasets necessitate the development of optimized and scalable training methods. In this white paper, we addressed the challenge of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Raphael Ruschel , A. S. M. Iftekhar , B. S. Manjunath , Suya You

In this paper, we study the sharpness of a deep learning (DL) loss landscape around local minima in order to reveal systematic mechanisms underlying the generalization abilities of DL models. Our analysis is performed across varying network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Devansh Bisla , Jing Wang , Anna Choromanska

Deep learning uses neural networks which are parameterised by their weights. The neural networks are usually trained by tuning the weights to directly minimise a given loss function. In this paper we propose to re-parameterise the weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Michael Fairbank , Spyridon Samothrakis , Luca Citi

We present a deep learning framework for correcting existing dynamical system models utilizing only a scarce high-fidelity data set. In many practical situations, one has a low-fidelity model that can capture the dynamics reasonably well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Caroline Tatsuoka , Dongbin Xiu

Despite exceptional achievements, training neural networks remains computationally expensive and is often plagued by instabilities that can degrade convergence. While learning rate schedules can help mitigate these issues, finding optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Benoit Dherin , Benny Avelin , Anders Karlsson , Hanna Mazzawi , Javier Gonzalvo , Michael Munn

Conventional uncertainty quantification methods usually lacks the capability of dealing with high-dimensional problems due to the curse of dimensionality. This paper presents a semi-supervised learning framework for dimension reduction and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-02 Zequn Wang , Mingyang Li

Quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) are attractive due to their much lower memory storage and faster inference speed than their regular full precision counterparts. To maintain the same performance level especially at low bit-widths,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Penghang Yin , Shuai Zhang , Jiancheng Lyu , Stanley Osher , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

We present any-precision deep neural networks (DNNs), which are trained with a new method that allows the learned DNNs to be flexible in numerical precision during inference. The same model in runtime can be flexibly and directly set to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Haichao Yu , Haoxiang Li , Honghui Shi , Thomas S. Huang , Gang Hua

Multipliers are the most space and power-hungry arithmetic operators of the digital implementation of deep neural networks. We train a set of state-of-the-art neural networks (Maxout networks) on three benchmark datasets: MNIST, CIFAR-10…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Matthieu Courbariaux , Yoshua Bengio , Jean-Pierre David

Recent trends in lower precision, e.g. half-precision floating point, training have shown improved system performance and reduced memory usage for Deep Learning while maintaining accuracy. However, current GNN systems cannot achieve such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Arnab Kanti Tarafder , Yidong Gong , Pradeep Kumar

Neural networks, a central tool in machine learning, have demonstrated remarkable, high fidelity performance on image recognition and classification tasks. These successes evince an ability to accurately represent high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-08 Grant M. Rotskoff , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

This work proposes deep network models and learning algorithms for unsupervised and supervised binary hashing. Our novel network design constrains one hidden layer to directly output the binary codes. This addresses a challenging issue in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Thanh-Toan Do , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ngai-Man Cheung

Finding parameters in a deep neural network (NN) that fit training data is a nonconvex optimization problem, but a basic first-order optimization method (gradient descent) finds a global optimizer with perfect fit (zero-loss) in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhiyan Ding , Shi Chen , Qin Li , Stephen Wright

With increasing scale in model and dataset size, the training of deep neural networks becomes a massive computational burden. One approach to speed up the training process is Selective Backprop. For this approach, we perform a forward pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Lukas Balles , Cedric Archambeau , Giovanni Zappella