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Applying Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) to training modern, large-scale neural networks such as transformer-based models is a challenging task, as the magnitude of noise added to the gradients at each iteration…

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Unraveling the emergence of collective learning in systems of coupled artificial neural networks points to broader implications for machine learning, neuroscience, and society. Here we introduce a minimal model that condenses several recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-10 Lluís Arola-Fernández , Lucas Lacasa

We consider worker skill estimation for the single-coin Dawid-Skene crowdsourcing model. In practice, skill-estimation is challenging because worker assignments are sparse and irregular due to the arbitrary and uncontrolled availability of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yao Ma , Alex Olshevsky , Venkatesh Saligrama , Csaba Szepesvari

Deep linear networks trained with gradient descent yield low rank solutions, as is typically studied in matrix factorization. In this paper, we take a step further and analyze implicit rank regularization in autoencoders. We show greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shih-Yu Sun , Vimal Thilak , Etai Littwin , Omid Saremi , Joshua M. Susskind

We study the problem of inverting a deep generative model with ReLU activations. Inversion corresponds to finding a latent code vector that explains observed measurements as much as possible. In most prior works this is performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Qi Lei , Ajil Jalal , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We consider training over-parameterized two-layer neural networks with Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) using gradient descent (GD) method. Inspired by a recent line of work, we study the evolutions of network prediction errors across GD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Lili Su , Pengkun Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) with billions of parameters have drastically transformed AI applications. However, their demanding computation during inference has raised significant challenges for deployment on resource-constrained devices.…

Group or cluster structure on explanatory variables in machine learning problems is a very general phenomenon, which has attracted broad interest from practitioners and theoreticians alike. In this work we contribute an approach to sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-22 Subhroshekhar Ghosh , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a promising unsupervised approach for identifying causally relevant and interpretable linear features in a language model's (LM) activations. To be useful for downstream tasks, SAEs need to decompose LM…

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Deep latent generative models have attracted increasing attention due to the capacity of combining the strengths of deep learning and probabilistic models in an elegant way. The data representations learned with the models are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zhao Xu , Daniel Onoro Rubio , Giuseppe Serra , Mathias Niepert

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become central to mechanistic interpretability, decomposing transformer activations into monosemantic features. Yet existing analyses characterise features almost exclusively through top-activating token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ruben Fernandez-Boullon , Pablo Magariños-Docampo , Javier Perez-Robles

Network embedding has emerged as a promising research field for network analysis. Recently, an approach, named Barlow Twins, has been proposed for self-supervised learning in computer vision by applying the redundancy-reduction principle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Rayyan Ahmad Khan , Martin Kleinsteuber

Despite the success of deep learning in domains such as image, voice, and graphs, there has been little progress in deep representation learning for domains without a known structure between features. For instance, a tabular dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Mohammad Kachuee , Sajad Darabi , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Convolutional Neural Networks has been implemented in many complex machine learning takes such as image classification, object identification, autonomous vehicle and robotic vision tasks. However, ConvNet architecture efficiency and…

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Training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) usually requires a large number of computational resources. In this paper, \textit{SparseTrain} is proposed to accelerate CNN training by fully exploiting the sparsity. It mainly involves three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pengcheng Dai , Jianlei Yang , Xucheng Ye , Xingzhou Cheng , Junyu Luo , Linghao Song , Yiran Chen , Weisheng Zhao

Existing approaches to increasing the effective depth of Transformers predominantly rely on parameter reuse, extending computation through recursive execution. Under this paradigm, the network structure remains static along the training…

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Rectified linear activation units are important components for state-of-the-art deep convolutional networks. In this paper, we propose a novel S-shaped rectified linear activation unit (SReLU) to learn both convex and non-convex functions,…

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We present a variational autoencoder framework for learning and generating configurations of structured polymer globules from distance matrices. We used coarse-grained molecular dynamics to sample polyethylene structures, which we used as…

This work studies the behavior of shallow ReLU networks trained with the logistic loss via gradient descent on binary classification data where the underlying data distribution is general, and the (optimal) Bayes risk is not necessarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ziwei Ji , Justin D. Li , Matus Telgarsky

The goal of compressed sensing is to learn a structured signal $x$ from a limited number of noisy linear measurements $y \approx Ax$. In traditional compressed sensing, "structure" is represented by sparsity in some known basis. Inspired by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Akshay Kamath , Sushrut Karmalkar , Eric Price