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We present a novel approach for training deep neural networks in a Bayesian way. Classical, i.e. non-Bayesian, deep learning has two major drawbacks both originating from the fact that network parameters are considered to be deterministic.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-11 Konstantin Posch , Jan Steinbrener , Jürgen Pilz

We give a new consistent scoring function for structure learning of Bayesian networks. In contrast to traditional approaches to scorebased structure learning, such as BDeu or MDL, the complexity penalty that we propose is data-dependent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Eliot Brenner , David Sontag

Motivated by distributed machine learning settings such as Federated Learning, we consider the problem of fitting a statistical model across a distributed collection of heterogeneous data sets whose similarity structure is encoded by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Dominic Richards , Sahand N. Negahban , Patrick Rebeschini

Interpretable machine learning has demonstrated impressive performance while preserving explainability. In particular, neural additive models (NAM) offer the interpretability to the black-box deep learning and achieve state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-28 Shiyun Xu , Zhiqi Bu , Pratik Chaudhari , Ian J. Barnett

A method of simultaneously optimizing both the structure of neural networks and the connection weights in a single training loop can reduce the enormous computational cost of neural architecture search. We focus on the probabilistic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Shota Saito , Shinichi Shirakawa

Stochastic gradient descent algorithms for training linear and kernel predictors are gaining more and more importance, thanks to their scalability. While various methods have been proposed to speed up their convergence, the model selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Francesco Orabona

We consider supervised learning problems where the features are embedded in a graph, such as gene expressions in a gene network. In this context, it is of much interest to automatically select a subgraph with few connected components; by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-20 Julien Mairal , Bin Yu

The design of novel algorithms for solving inverse problems in signal processing is an incredibly difficult, heuristic-driven, and time-consuming task. In this short paper, we the idea of automated algorithm discovery in the signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Patrick Yubeaton , Sarthak Gupta , M. Salman Asif , Chinmay Hegde

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been successfully applied to solve a variety of classification and function approximation problems. Although ANNs can generally predict better than decision trees for pattern classification problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Md. Monirul Islam

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Feature subset selection arises in many high-dimensional applications of statistics, such as compressed sensing and genomics. The $\ell_0$ penalty is ideal for this task, the caveat being it requires the NP-hard combinatorial evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-26 Anindya Bhadra , Jyotishka Datta , Nicholas G. Polson , Brandon Willard

Deep neural networks have dramatically transformed machine learning, but their memory and energy demands are substantial. The requirements of real biological neural networks are rather modest in comparison, and one feature that might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tianlin Liu , Friedemann Zenke

Sparse linear regression is a fundamental tool in data analysis. However, traditional approaches often fall short when covariates exhibit structure or arise from heterogeneous sources. In biomedical applications, covariates may stem from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 William R. P. Denault

This paper studies the sparse identification problem of unknown sparse parameter vectors in stochastic dynamic systems. Firstly, a novel sparse identification algorithm is proposed, which can generate sparse estimates based on least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Ziming Wang , Xinghua Zhu

This paper develops alternative hyperparameters for specifying sparse Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). These hyperparameters allow for varying sparsity within the trainable weight matrices of the model while improving overall performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Quincy Hershey , Randy Paffenroth

Quality classification of wood boards is an essential task in the sawmill industry, which is still usually performed by human operators in small to median companies in developing countries. Machine learning algorithms have been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mateus Roder , Leandro Aparecido Passos , João Paulo Papa , André Luis Debiaso Rossi

Directed networks are conveniently represented as graphs in which ordered edges encode interactions between vertices. Despite their wide availability, there is a shortage of statistical models amenable for inference, specially when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Stefan Stein , Chenlei Leng

In exact sparse optimization problems on Rd (also known as sparsity constrained problems), one looks for solution that have few nonzero components. In this paper, we consider problems where sparsity is exactly measured either by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel De Lara , Ponts Paristech

Neural networks (NNs) are making a large impact both on research and industry. Nevertheless, as NNs' accuracy increases, it is followed by an expansion in their size, required number of compute operations and energy consumption. Increase in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Martin Ferianc , Anush Sankaran , Olivier Mastropietro , Ehsan Saboori , Quentin Cappart

Sparse sensor array selection arises in many engineering applications, where it is imperative to obtain maximum spatial resolution from a limited number of array elements. Recent research shows that computational complexity of array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra