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Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) filter the input data using a series of spatial convolution operators with compactly supported stencils and point-wise nonlinearities. Commonly, the convolution operators couple features from all…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Eran Treister , Lars Ruthotto , Michal Sharoni , Sapir Zafrani , Eldad Haber

Hierarchical feature discovery using non-spiking convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has attracted much recent interest in machine learning and computer vision. However, it is still not well understood how to create a biologically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S. Maida

Pruning large neural networks to create high-quality, independently trainable sparse masks, which can maintain similar performance to their dense counterparts, is very desirable due to the reduced space and time complexity. As research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ajay Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation. While existing SNN accelerators exploit this sparsity to skip…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chiyue Wei , Bowen Duan , Cong Guo , Jingyang Zhang , Qingyue Song , Hai "Helen" Li , Yiran Chen

We propose a novel family of connectionist models based on kernel machines and consider the problem of learning layer-by-layer a compositional hypothesis class, i.e., a feedforward, multilayer architecture, in a supervised setting. In terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Shiyu Duan , Shujian Yu , Yunmei Chen , Jose Principe

Recent studies have shown that skeletonization (pruning parameters) of networks \textit{at initialization} provides all the practical benefits of sparsity both at inference and training time, while only marginally degrading their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Pau de Jorge , Amartya Sanyal , Harkirat S. Behl , Philip H. S. Torr , Gregory Rogez , Puneet K. Dokania

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang , Yuan Xie

We present GERN, a novel scalable framework for training GNNs in node classification tasks, based on effective resistance, a standard tool in spectral graph theory. Our method progressively refines the GNN weights on a sequence of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Francesco Bonchi , Claudio Gentile , Francesco Paolo Nerini , André Panisson , Fabio Vitale

Network flow problems, which involve distributing traffic such that the underlying infrastructure is used effectively, are ubiquitous in transportation and logistics. Among them, the general Multi-Commodity Network Flow (MCNF) problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Network embedding aims to find a way to encode network by learning an embedding vector for each node in the network. The network often has property information which is highly informative with respect to the node's position and role in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Enya Shen , Zhidong Cao , Changqing Zou , Jianmin Wang

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance for a range of classification and inference tasks. However, the use of stochastic gradient descent combined with the nonconvexity of the underlying optimization problems renders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Ramina Ghods , Andrew S. Lan , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

We describe two techniques that significantly improve the running time of several standard machine-learning algorithms when data is sparse. The first technique is an algorithm that effeciently extracts one-way and two-way counts--either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 David Maxwell Chickering , David Heckerman

Semi-supervised node classification is a foundational task in graph machine learning, yet state-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are hindered by significant computational overhead and reliance on strong homophily assumptions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yutong Shen , Ruizhe Xia , Jingyi Liu , Yinqi Liu

The high demand for computational and storage resources severely impede the deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in limited-resource devices. Recent CNN architectures have proposed reduced complexity versions (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Souvik Kundu , Saurav Prakash , Haleh Akrami , Peter A. Beerel , Keith M. Chugg

We investigate filter level sparsity that emerges in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained with adaptive gradient descent techniques and L2 regularization or weight decay.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Dushyant Mehta , Kwang In Kim , Christian Theobalt

We introduce TwIST, a distributed training framework for efficient large language model (LLM) sparsification. TwIST trains multiple subnetworks in parallel, periodically aggregates their parameters, and resamples new subnetworks during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Michael Menezes , Barbara Su , Xinze Feng , Yehya Farhat , Hamza Shili , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning setting that requires multiple clients to collaborate on training a model while maintaining data privacy. The unaddressed inherent sparsity in data and models often results in overly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Krishna Harsha Kovelakuntla Huthasana , Alireza Olama , Andreas Lundell

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

In this paper, we propose a unifying message-passing framework for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) using Expectation-Propagation. Our gradient-free method is capable of learning the marginal distributions of network parameters and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dan Yao , Steve McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann