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Model ensembles have long been a cornerstone for improving generalization and robustness in deep learning. However, their effectiveness often comes at the cost of substantial computational overhead. To address this issue, state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence has been developed for decades with the achievement of great progress. Recently, deep learning shows its ability to solve many real world problems, e.g. image classification and detection, natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhuoran Xu , Hao Liu

Machine learning has made tremendous progress in recent years and received large amounts of public attention. Though we are still far from designing a full artificially intelligent agent, machine learning has brought us many applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Steven Abreu

While larger neural models are pushing the boundaries of what deep learning can do, often more weights are needed to train models rather than to run inference for tasks. This paper seeks to understand this behavior using search spaces --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Darko Stosic , Dusan Stosic

Random pruning is arguably the most naive way to attain sparsity in neural networks, but has been deemed uncompetitive by either post-training pruning or sparse training. In this paper, we focus on sparse training and highlight a perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Li Shen , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Zhangyang Wang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Sparse deep learning aims to address the challenge of huge storage consumption by deep neural networks, and to recover the sparse structure of target functions. Although tremendous empirical successes have been achieved, most sparse deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-17 Jincheng Bai , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

We investigate the robustness of sparse artificial neural networks trained with adaptive topology. We focus on a simple yet effective architecture consisting of three sparse layers with 99% sparsity followed by a dense layer, applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bendegúz Sulyok , Gergely Palla , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

We demonstrate the possibility of what we call sparse learning: accelerated training of deep neural networks that maintain sparse weights throughout training while achieving dense performance levels. We accomplish this by developing sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tim Dettmers , Luke Zettlemoyer

Learning deep representations to solve complex machine learning tasks has become the prominent trend in the past few years. Indeed, Deep Neural Networks are now the golden standard in domains as various as computer vision, natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Vincent Gripon , Carlos Lassance , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene

The rapid progress of Artificial Intelligence research came with the development of increasingly complex deep learning models, leading to growing challenges in terms of computational complexity, energy efficiency and interpretability. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yuanrong Wang , Antonio Briola , Tomaso Aste

Neural network models are widely used in solving many challenging problems, such as computer vision, personalized recommendation, and natural language processing. Those models are very computationally intensive and reach the hardware limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Liu Liu , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

This article does not propose any novel algorithm or new hardware for sparsity. Instead, it aims to serve the "common good" for the increasingly prosperous Sparse Neural Network (SNN) research community. We attempt to summarize some most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Shiwei Liu , Zhangyang Wang

We investigate the difficulties of training sparse neural networks and make new observations about optimization dynamics and the energy landscape within the sparse regime. Recent work of \citep{Gale2019, Liu2018} has shown that sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Utku Evci , Fabian Pedregosa , Aidan Gomez , Erich Elsen

Sparse training has emerged as a promising method for resource-efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) in real-world applications. However, the reliability of sparse models remains a crucial concern, particularly in detecting unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Bani Mallick

We study the benefits of different sparse architectures for deep reinforcement learning. In particular, we focus on image-based domains where spatially-biased and fully-connected architectures are common. Using these and several other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Fatima Davelouis , John D. Martin , Michael Bowling

Deep learning (DL) has transformed applications in a variety of domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, and tabular data analysis. The search for improved DL model accuracy has led practitioners to explore…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Kabir Nagrecha

The increasing complexity of modern deep neural network models and the expanding sizes of datasets necessitate the development of optimized and scalable training methods. In this white paper, we addressed the challenge of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Raphael Ruschel , A. S. M. Iftekhar , B. S. Manjunath , Suya You

More than 70% of cloud computing is paid for but sits idle. A large fraction of these idle compute are cheap CPUs with few cores that are not utilized during the less busy hours. This paper aims to enable those CPU cycles to train…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Minghao Yan , Nicholas Meisburger , Tharun Medini , Anshumali Shrivastava

Large neural networks are very successful in various tasks. However, with limited data, the generalization capabilities of deep neural networks are also very limited. In this paper, we empirically start showing that intrinsically sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy