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Brain networks characterize complex connectivities among brain regions as graph structures, which provide a powerful means to study brain connectomes. In recent years, graph neural networks have emerged as a prevalent paradigm of learning…

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In recent years, as data and problem sizes have increased, distributed learning has become an essential tool for training high-performance models. However, the communication bottleneck, especially for high-dimensional data, is a challenge.…

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We propose network coding as an energy efficient data transmission technique in core networks with non-bypass and bypass routing approaches. The improvement in energy efficiency is achieved through reduction in the traffic flows passing…

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In order to understand the complex cognitive functions of the human brain, it is essential to study the structural connectome, i.e., the wiring of different brain regions to each other through axonal pathways. However, the high degree of…

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We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

Recent semantic communication methods explore effective ways to expand the communication paradigm and improve the system performance of the communication systems. Nonetheless, the common problem of these methods is that the essence of…

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In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised setting for structure learning of deep neural networks and propose to adopt the efficient coding principle, rooted in information theory and developed in computational neuroscience, to guide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jinhui Yuan , Fei Pan , Chunting Zhou , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

It is well-known that biological and social interaction networks have a varying degree of redundancy, though a consensus of the precise cause of this is so far lacking. In this paper, we introduce a topological redundancy measure for…

In multi-terminal networks, feedback increases the capacity region and helps communication devices to coordinate. In this article, we deepen the relationship between coordination and feedback by considering a point-to-point scenario with an…

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Several data compressors have been proposed in distributed optimization frameworks of network systems to reduce communication overhead in large-scale applications. In this paper, we demonstrate that effective information compression may…

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Token representations in high-dimensional latent spaces often exhibit redundancy, limiting computational efficiency and reducing structural coherence across model layers. Hierarchical latent space folding introduces a structured…

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This paper analyzes the throughput of industrial communication networks under a secrecy constraint. The proposed scenario is composed by sensors that measure some relevant information of the plant that is first processed by aggregator node…

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We investigate robust linear consensus over networks under capacity-constrained communication. The capacity of each edge is encoded as an upper bound on the number of state variables that can be communicated instantaneously. When the edge…

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Communication overhead is one of the major performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed computing systems, in particular for machine learning applications. Conventionally, compression techniques are used to reduce the load of…

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The role of synchronous firing in sensory coding and cognition remains controversial. While studies, focusing on its mechanistic consequences in attentional tasks, suggest that synchronization dynamically boosts sensory processing, others…

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It plays a fundamental role to compactly represent the visual information towards the optimization of the ultimate utility in myriad visual data centered applications. With numerous approaches proposed to efficiently compress the texture…

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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks and can explore both rate and temporal coding for energy-efficient event-driven computation. However, the decision accuracy of existing SNN designs is contingent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Changqing Xu , Wenrui Zhang , Yu Liu , Peng Li

The efficient coding theory postulates that single cells in a neuronal population should be optimally configured to efficiently encode information about a stimulus subject to biophysical constraints. This poses the question of how multiple…

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