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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in graph learning and are widely adopted across various critical domains. However, the irregular connectivity between vertices leads to inefficient neighbor aggregation,…

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While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully…

Computer vision on low-power edge devices enables applications including search-and-rescue and security. State-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), are too large for inference on low-power edge…

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The big breakthrough on the ImageNet challenge in 2012 was partially due to the `dropout' technique used to avoid overfitting. Here, we introduce a new approach called `Spectral Dropout' to improve the generalization ability of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Deep neural networks are typically trained by uniformly sampling large datasets across epochs, despite evidence that not all samples contribute equally throughout learning. Recent work shows that progressively reducing the amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Amar Gahir , Varshil Patel , Shreyank N Gowda

Distributed systems can be found in various applications, e.g., in robotics or autonomous driving, to achieve higher flexibility and robustness. Thereby, data flow centric applications such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference benefit…

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Dropout is a common operator in deep learning, aiming to prevent overfitting by randomly dropping neurons during training. This paper introduces a new family of poisoning attacks against neural networks named DROPOUTATTACK. DROPOUTATTACK…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrew Yuan , Alina Oprea , Cheng Tan

Dropout is designed to relieve the overfitting problem in high-level vision tasks but is rarely applied in low-level vision tasks, like image super-resolution (SR). As a classic regression problem, SR exhibits a different behaviour as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiangtao Kong , Xina Liu , Jinjin Gu , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Pietro Morerio , Jacopo Cavazza , Riccardo Volpi , Rene Vidal , Vittorio Murino

With ever-increasing application of machine learning models in various domains such as image classification, speech recognition and synthesis, and health care, designing efficient hardware for these models has gained a lot of popularity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mahdi Nazemi , Amir Erfan Eshratifar , Massoud Pedram

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are inherently computation-intensive and also power-hungry. Hardware accelerators such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a promising solution that can satisfy these requirements for both embedded and…

As one of standard approaches to train deep neural networks, dropout has been applied to regularize large models to avoid overfitting, and the improvement in performance by dropout has been explained as avoiding co-adaptation between nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Sangchul Hahn , Heeyoul Choi

Federated learning (FL) is a popular framework for training an AI model using distributed mobile data in a wireless network. It features data parallelism by distributing the learning task to multiple edge devices while attempting to…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art algorithms for multiple applications, spanning from image classification to speech recognition. While providing excellent accuracy, they often have enormous compute and memory requirements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ussama Zahid , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas J. Fraser , Michaela Blott , Kees Vissers

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), more specifically their Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) variants, have been widely used as a deep learning tool for tackling sequence-based learning tasks in text and speech. Training of such LSTM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Anup Sarma , Sonali Singh , Huaipan Jiang , Rui Zhang , Mahmut T Kandemir , Chita R Das

Executing deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge artificial intelligence (AI) devices enables various autonomous mobile computing applications. However, the memory budget of edge AI devices restricts the number and complexity of DNNs allowed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Kun Wang , Jiani Cao , Zimu Zhou , Zhenjiang Li

While embedded FPGAs are attractive platforms for DNN acceleration on edge-devices due to their low latency and high energy efficiency, the scarcity of resources of edge-scale FPGA devices also makes it challenging for DNN deployment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Cong Hao , Xiaofan Zhang , Yuhong Li , Sitao Huang , Jinjun Xiong , Kyle Rupnow , Wen-mei Hwu , Deming Chen

The ever-increasing data rates of modern communication systems lead to severe distortions of the communication signal, imposing great challenges to state-of-the-art signal processing algorithms. In this context, neural network (NN)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jonas Ney , Norbert Wehn

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, deploying them brings significant challenges due to the huge cost of memory, energy, and computation. To address these challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xue Geng , Zhe Wang , Chunyun Chen , Qing Xu , Kaixin Xu , Chao Jin , Manas Gupta , Xulei Yang , Zhenghua Chen , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li