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Sparse neural networks are becoming increasingly important as the field seeks to improve the performance of existing models by scaling them up, while simultaneously trying to reduce power consumption and computational footprint.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Siddhant M. Jayakumar , Razvan Pascanu , Jack W. Rae , Simon Osindero , Erich Elsen

The interaction between transitivity and sparsity, two common features in empirical networks, implies that there are local regions of large sparse networks that are dense. We call this the blessing of transitivity and it has consequences…

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Link prediction is a fundamental problem for graph-structured data (e.g., social networks, drug side-effect networks, etc.). Graph neural networks have offered robust solutions for this problem, specifically by learning the representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Paul Louis , Shweta Ann Jacob , Amirali Salehi-Abari

Building modern deep learning systems that are not just effective but also efficient requires rethinking established paradigms for model training and neural architecture design. Instead of adapting highly overparameterized networks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Julian Schönberger , Maximilian Zorn , Jonas Nüßlein , Thomas Gabor , Philipp Altmann

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging as a powerful technique for modeling graph structures. Due to the sparsity of real-world graph data, GNN performance is limited by extensive sparse matrix multiplication (SpMM) operations involved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shenghao Qiu , You Liang , Zheng Wang

The limited and dynamically varied resources on edge devices motivate us to deploy an optimized deep neural network that can adapt its sub-networks to fit in different resource constraints. However, existing works often build sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhongnan Qu , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Xin Dong , Yuecheng Li , Ekin Sumbul , Barbara De Salvo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have delivered a remarkable performance in many tasks of computer vision. However, over-parameterized representations of popular architectures dramatically increase their computational complexity and storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chang Nie , Huan Wang , Lu Zhao

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are processing architectures that exploit graph structural information to model representations from network data. Despite their success, GNNs suffer from sub-optimal generalization performance given limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhan Gao , Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Leiming Zhang , Rick S. Blum , Alejandro Ribeiro , Brian M. Sadler

It is known that sparsity can improve interpretability for deep neural networks. However, existing methods in the area either require networks that are pre-trained with sparsity constraints, or impose sparsity after the fact, altering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Many approaches to transform classification problems from non-linear to linear by feature transformation have been recently presented in the literature. These notably include sparse coding methods and deep neural networks. However, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Alessandro Montalto , Giovanni Tessitore , Roberto Prevete

This article does not propose any novel algorithm or new hardware for sparsity. Instead, it aims to serve the "common good" for the increasingly prosperous Sparse Neural Network (SNN) research community. We attempt to summarize some most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Shiwei Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Topological methods for comparing weighted graphs are valuable in various learning tasks but often suffer from computational inefficiency on large datasets. We introduce RTD-Lite, a scalable algorithm that efficiently compares topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Eduard Tulchinskii , Daria Voronkova , Ilya Trofimov , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Contemporary Deep Neural Network (DNN) contains millions of synaptic connections with tens to hundreds of layers. The large computation and memory requirements pose a challenge to the hardware design. In this work, we leverage the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Jingyang Zhu , Jingbo Jiang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Exploiting sparsity enables hardware systems to run neural networks faster and more energy-efficiently. However, most prior sparsity-centric optimization techniques only accelerate the forward pass of neural networks and usually require an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Maohua Zhu , Jason Clemons , Jeff Pool , Minsoo Rhu , Stephen W. Keckler , Yuan Xie

We propose a unified framework for adaptive connection sampling in graph neural networks (GNNs) that generalizes existing stochastic regularization methods for training GNNs. The proposed framework not only alleviates over-smoothing and…

Radar-based perception has gained increasing attention in autonomous driving, yet the inherent sparsity of radars poses challenges. Radar raw data often contains excessive noise, whereas radar point clouds retain only limited information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jialong Wu , Mirko Meuter , Markus Schoeler , Matthias Rottmann

For compressed sensing over arbitrarily connected networks, we consider the problem of estimating underlying sparse signals in a distributed manner. We introduce a new signal model that helps to describe inter-signal correlation among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Dennis Sundman , Saikat Chatterjee , Mikael Skoglund

We perform an empirical study of the behaviour of deep networks when fully linearizing some of its feature channels through a sparsity prior on the overall number of nonlinear units in the network. In experiments on image classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Christian H. X. Ali Mehmeti-Göpel , Jan Disselhoff

Graph embedding is gaining its popularity for link prediction in complex networks and achieving excellent performance. However, limited work has been done in sparse networks that represent most of real networks. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Min-Ren Chen , Ping Huang , Yu Lin , Shi-Min Cai