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Training deep neural networks for scientific computing remains computationally expensive due to the slow formation of diverse feature representations in early training stages. Recent studies identify a staircase phenomenon in training…
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Overparameterized Neural Networks (NN) display state-of-the-art performance. However, there is a growing need for smaller, energy-efficient, neural networks tobe able to use machine learning applications on devices with limited…
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