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We propose a framework for training neural networks that are coupled with partial differential equations (PDEs) in a parallel computing environment. Unlike most distributed computing frameworks for deep neural networks, our focus is to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Kailai Xu , Weiqiang Zhu , Eric Darve

It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shiqing Fan , Yi Rong , Chen Meng , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Chuan Wu , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Lixue Xia , Lansong Diao , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

As large-scale pre-trained foundation models continue to expand in size and capability, efficiently adapting them to specific downstream tasks has become increasingly critical. Despite substantial progress, existing adaptation approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zesheng Ye , Chengyi Cai , Ruijiang Dong , Jianzhong Qi , Lei Feng , Pin-Yu Chen , Feng Liu

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for real- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems. Though previous work along this research line has shown some promising results, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xin Dong , Shangyu Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming an important tool in modern computing applications. Accelerating their training is a major challenge and techniques range from distributed algorithms to low-level circuit design. In this survey, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler

As deep neural networks (DNNs) become deeper, the training time increases. In this perspective, multi-GPU parallel computing has become a key tool in accelerating the training of DNNs. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Chang-Ock Lee , Youngkyu Lee , Jongho Park

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

In recent years, Deep Learning models have shown a great performance in complex optimization problems. They generally require large training datasets, which is a limitation in most practical cases. Transfer learning allows importing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aritz. D. Martinez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have significant computational and data management requirements. The size of both training data and models continue to increase. Sparsification and pruning methods are shown to be effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularities, neuron level pruning will remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhengtao Wang , Ce Zhu , Zhiqiang Xia , Qi Guo , Yipeng Liu

Improving the efficiency of neural network inference is undeniably important in a time where commercial use of AI models increases daily. Node pruning is the art of removing computational units such as neurons, filters, attention heads, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Joshua Offergeld , Marcel van Gerven , Nasir Ahmad

This paper investigates multilevel initialization strategies for training very deep neural networks with a layer-parallel multigrid solver. The scheme is based on the continuous interpretation of the training problem as a problem of optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eric C. Cyr , Stefanie Günther , Jacob B. Schroder

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are usually trained sequentially from one layer to another, which causes forward, backward and update locking's problems, leading to poor performance in terms of training time. The existing parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Huw Lloyd , Xin Zhang , Darren Dancey , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Distributed learning is the problem of inferring a function in the case where training data is distributed among multiple geographically separated sources. Particularly, the focus is on designing learning strategies with low computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-22 Simone Scardapane

Reconstructing large-scale latent networks from observed dynamics is crucial for understanding complex systems. However, the existing methods based on compressive sensing are often rendered infeasible in practice by prohibitive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Zhaoyu Xing , Wei Zhong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exploit many layers and a large number of parameters to achieve excellent performance. The training process of DNN models generally handles large-scale input data with many sparse features, which incurs high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Ji Liu , Zhihua Wu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma , Danlei Feng , Minxu Zhang , Xinxuan Wu , Xuefeng Yao , Dejing Dou

In trained deep neural networks, unstructured pruning can reduce redundant weights to lower storage cost. However, it requires the customization of hardwares to speed up practical inference. Another trend accelerates sparse model inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Zhuliang Yao , Shijie Cao , Wencong Xiao , Chen Zhang , Lanshun Nie

Ability of deep networks to extract high level features and of recurrent networks to perform time-series inference have been studied. In view of universality of one hidden layer network at approximating functions under weak constraints, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Sharat C. Prasad , Piyush Prasad

Channel pruning, which seeks to reduce the model size by removing redundant channels, is a popular solution for deep networks compression. Existing channel pruning methods usually conduct layer-wise channel selection by directly minimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu