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Mining massive spatio-temporal data can help a variety of real-world applications such as city capacity planning, event management, and social network analysis. The tensor representation can be used to capture the correlation between space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Jing Ma , Qiuchen Zhang , Joyce C. Ho , Li Xiong

TensorFlow Eager is a multi-stage, Python-embedded domain-specific language for hardware-accelerated machine learning, suitable for both interactive research and production. TensorFlow, which TensorFlow Eager extends, requires users to…

We propose an application of online hard sample mining for efficient training of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). NeRF models produce state-of-the-art quality for many 3D reconstruction and rendering tasks but require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Juuso Korhonen , Goutham Rangu , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Juho Kannala

TensorFlow is a popular cloud computing framework that targets machine learning applications. It separates the specification of application logic (in a dataflow graph) from the execution of the logic. TensorFlow's native runtime executes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Sam Whitlock , James Larus , Edouard Bugnion

Ensembling multiple predictions is a widely used technique for improving the accuracy of various machine learning tasks. One obvious drawback of ensembling is its higher execution cost during inference. In this paper, we first describe our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Hiroshi Inoue

We present ShapeFlow, a dynamic abstract interpreter for TensorFlow which quickly catches tensor shape incompatibility errors, one of the most common bugs in deep learning code. ShapeFlow shares the same APIs as TensorFlow but only captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Sahil Verma , Zhendong Su

Machine learning (ML) computations commonly execute on expensive specialized hardware, such as GPUs and TPUs, which provide high FLOPs and performance-per-watt. For cost efficiency, it is essential to keep these accelerators highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Andrew Audibert , Yang Chen , Dan Graur , Ana Klimovic , Jiri Simsa , Chandramohan A. Thekkath

Efficient execution of deep learning workloads on dataflow architectures is crucial for overcoming memory bottlenecks and maximizing performance. While streaming intermediate results between computation kernels can significantly improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hanchen Ye , Deming Chen

Forward-flux sampling (FFS) is a path sampling technique that has gained increased popularity in recent years, and has been used to compute rates of rare event phenomena such as crystallization, condensation, hydrophobic evaporation, DNA…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-01 Amir Haji-Akbari

Transformers are central to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), excelling in fields ranging from computer vision to natural language processing. Despite their success, their large parameter count and computational demands challenge…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Qunyou Liu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

This article is devoted to one particular case of using universal accelerated proximal envelopes to obtain computationally efficient accelerated versions of methods used to solve various optimization problem setups. We propose a proximally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Vladislav Matyukhin

Graph processing systems are essential for analyzing large-scale data with complex relationships, yet most existing frameworks rely on statically provisioned clusters, resulting in poor elasticity and inefficient resource utilization under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Zhao , Parsa Poorsistani , Mohammad Goudarzi , Tawfiq Islam , Adel N. Toosi

Cross-entropy loss together with softmax is arguably one of the most common used supervision components in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Despite its simplicity, popularity and excellent performance, the component does not explicitly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Weiyang Liu , Yandong Wen , Zhiding Yu , Meng Yang

While accelerators such as GPUs have limited memory, deep neural networks are becoming larger and will not fit with the memory limitation of accelerators for training. We propose an approach to tackle this problem by rewriting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Tung D. Le , Haruki Imai , Yasushi Negishi , Kiyokuni Kawachiya

Large transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results in numerous natural language processing tasks. Among the pivotal components of the transformer architecture, the attention mechanism plays a crucial role in capturing token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yichuan Deng , Zhao Song , Kaijun Yuan , Tianyi Zhou

The use of contrastive loss for representation learning has become prominent in computer vision, and it is now getting attention in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Here, we explore the idea of using a batch-softmax contrastive loss when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Anton Chernyavskiy , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Pavel Kalinin , Preslav Nakov

Distributed filesystem metadata updates are typically synchronous. This creates inherent challenges for access efficiency, load balancing, and directory contention, especially under dynamic and skewed workloads. This paper argues that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingwei Xu , Mingkai Dong , Qiulin Tian , Ziyi Tian , Tong Xin , Haibo Chen

Intermediate task transfer learning can greatly improve model performance. If, for example, one has little training data for emotion detection, first fine-tuning a language model on a sentiment classification dataset may improve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 David Schulte , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

The recently proposed soft finite element method (SoftFEM) reduces the stiffness (condition numbers), consequently improving the overall approximation accuracy. The method subtracts a least-square term that penalizes the gradient jumps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jipei Chen , Victor M. Calo , Quanling Deng

Replicated Softmax model, a well-known undirected topic model, is powerful in extracting semantic representations of documents. Traditional learning strategies such as Contrastive Divergence are very inefficient. This paper provides a novel…

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