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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…

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A key recent advance in face recognition models a test face image as a sparse linear combination of a set of training face images. The resulting sparse representations have been shown to possess robustness against a variety of distortions…

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Sparse tensors are prevalent in many data-intensive applications, yet existing differentiable programming frameworks are tailored towards dense tensors. This presents a significant challenge for efficiently computing gradients through…

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Tabular datasets with low-sample-size or many variables are prevalent in biomedicine. Practitioners in this domain prefer linear or tree-based models over neural networks since the latter are harder to interpret and tend to overfit when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Junchen Yang , Ofir Lindenbaum , Yuval Kluger

We develop new stochastic gradient methods for efficiently solving sparse linear regression in a partial attribute observation setting, where learners are only allowed to observe a fixed number of actively chosen attributes per example at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Tomoya Murata , Taiji Suzuki

Sparse linear regression is a central problem in high-dimensional statistics. We study the correlated random design setting, where the covariates are drawn from a multivariate Gaussian $N(0,\Sigma)$, and we seek an estimator with small…

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In this paper, a sparsity-aware adaptive algorithm for distributed learning in diffusion networks is developed. The algorithm follows the set-theoretic estimation rationale. At each time instance and at each node of the network, a closed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Symeon Chouvardas , Konstantinos Slavakis , Yannis Kopsinis , Sergios Theodoridis

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

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

Derivation of the probability density evolution provides invaluable insight into the behavior of many stochastic systems and their performance. However, for most real-time applica-tions, numerical determination of the probability density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Seid H. Pourtakdoust , Amir H. Khodabakhsh

Sparse regression and feature extraction are the cornerstones of knowledge discovery from massive data. Their goal is to discover interpretable and predictive models that provide simple relationships among scientific variables. While the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jeremy A. McCulloch , Skyler R. St. Pierre , Kevin Linka , Ellen Kuhl

Deep neural networks often have millions of parameters. This can hinder their deployment to low-end devices, not only due to high memory requirements but also because of increased latency at inference. We propose a novel model compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Tao Lin , Sebastian U. Stich , Luis Barba , Daniil Dmitriev , Martin Jaggi

Surrogate testing techniques have been used widely to investigate the presence of dynamical nonlinearities, an essential ingredient of deterministic chaotic processes. Traditional surrogate testing subscribes to statistical hypothesis…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Radhakrishnan Nagarajan

While deep learning has demonstrated impressive progress, it remains a daunting challenge to learn from hard samples as these samples are usually noisy and intricate. These hard samples play a crucial role in the optimal performance of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qiao Xiao , Boqian Wu , Lu Yin , Christopher Neil Gadzinski , Tianjin Huang , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

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

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

Sparse neural networks are highly desirable in deep learning in reducing its complexity. The goal of this paper is to study how choices of regularization parameters influence the sparsity level of learned neural networks. We first derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Lixin Shen , Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

The performance of machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms generally depends on data representation. That is why, much of the current effort in performing machine learning algorithms goes into the design of preprocessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fadi Dornaika , Ahmad Khoder , Abdelmalik Moujahid , Wassim Khoder

Many real-world systems are modelled using complex ordinary differential equations (ODEs). However, the dimensionality of these systems can make them challenging to analyze. Dimensionality reduction techniques like Proper Orthogonal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

We study the problem of estimating high dimensional models with underlying sparse structures while preserving the privacy of each training example. We develop a differentially private high-dimensional sparse learning framework using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-16 Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu