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Recently, sparse training methods have started to be established as a de facto approach for training and inference efficiency in artificial neural networks. Yet, this efficiency is just in theory. In practice, everyone uses a binary mask to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Selima Curci , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiyi

The advancement of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies allow us to study the individual level cell-type-specific gene expression networks by direct inference of genes' conditional independence structures. scRNA-seq data…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-20 Changhao Ge , Hongzhe Li

Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are versatile detectors that reconstruct charged-particle tracks in an ionizing medium, enabling sensitive measurements across a wide range of nuclear physics experiments. We explore sparse convolutional…

Sparse training has received an upsurging interest in machine learning due to its tantalizing saving potential for the entire training process as well as inference. Dynamic sparse training (DST), as a leading sparse training approach, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Lu Yin , Gen Li , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Tianjin Huang , Zhangyang Wang , Vlado Menkovski , Xiaolong Ma , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Shiwei Liu

Neural networks have achieved state of the art performance across a wide variety of machine learning tasks, often with large and computation-heavy models. Inducing sparseness as a way to reduce the memory and computation footprint of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Amir Hadifar , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are useful for detecting and steering interpretable features in neural networks, with particular potential for understanding complex multimodal representations. Given their ability to uncover interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Vladimir Zaigrajew , Hubert Baniecki , Przemyslaw Biecek

We introduce a new approach to processing complex-valued data using DNNs consisting of parallel real-valued subnetworks with coupled outputs. Our proposed class of architectures, referred to as Steinmetz Neural Networks, incorporates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Ali Pezeshki , Vahid Tarokh

The paper investigates the performance of state-of-the-art low-parameter deep neural networks for computer vision, focusing on bottleneck architectures and their behavior using superlinear activation functions. We address interference in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lilian Hollard , Lucas Mohimont , Nathalie Gaveau , Luiz-Angelo Steffenel

Sparse neural networks are important for achieving better generalization and enhancing computation efficiency. This paper proposes a novel learning approach to obtain sparse fully connected layers in neural networks (NNs) automatically. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Mengqiao Han , Xiabi Liu , Zhaoyang Hai , Zhengwen Li

Sparsification of neural networks is one of the effective complexity reduction methods to improve efficiency and generalizability. We consider the problem of learning a one hidden layer convolutional neural network with ReLU activation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Thu Dinh , Jack Xin

This work examines the problem of exact data interpolation via sparse (neuron count), infinitely wide, single hidden layer neural networks with leaky rectified linear unit activations. Using the atomic norm framework of [Chandrasekaran et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Akshay Kumar , Jarvis Haupt

Brain imaging data such as EEG or MEG are high-dimensional spatiotemporal data often degraded by complex, non-Gaussian noise. For reliable analysis of brain imaging data, it is important to extract discriminative, low-dimensional intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Yiluan Guo , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung

We present a generic framework for spatio-temporal (ST) data modeling, analysis, and forecasting, with a special focus on data that is sparse in both space and time. Our multi-scaled framework is a seamless coupling of two major components:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Bao Wang , Xiyang Luo , Fangbo Zhang , Baichuan Yuan , Andrea L. Bertozzi , P. Jeffrey Brantingham

Sparse approximations using highly over-complete dictionaries is a state-of-the-art tool for many imaging applications including denoising, super-resolution, compressive sensing, light-field analysis, and object recognition. Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-03 Ali Ayremlou , Thomas Goldstein , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

In this work we suggest a statistical mechanics approach to the classification of high-dimensional data according to a binary label. We propose an algorithm whose aim is twofold: First it learns a classifier from a relatively small number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-22 Andrea Pagnani , Francesca Tria , Martin Weigt

Sparse Gaussian graphical models characterize sparse dependence relationships between random variables in a network. To estimate multiple related Gaussian graphical models on the same set of variables, we formulate a hierarchical model,…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-10 Yuancheng Zhu , Rina Foygel Barber

With continual miniaturization ever more applications of deep learning can be found in embedded systems, where it is common to encounter data with natural complex domain representation. To this end we extend Sparse Variational Dropout to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ivan Nazarov , Evgeny Burnaev

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

The least squares method with deep neural networks as function parametrization has been applied to solve certain high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) successfully; however, its convergence is slow and might not be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Yiqi Gu , Haizhao Yang , Chao Zhou

Deep NLP models benefit from underlying structures in the data---e.g., parse trees---typically extracted using off-the-shelf parsers. Recent attempts to jointly learn the latent structure encounter a tradeoff: either make factorization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins , Claire Cardie