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Extreme learning machine (ELM) as a neural network algorithm has shown its good performance, such as fast speed, simple structure etc, but also, weak robustness is an unavoidable defect in original ELM for blended data. We present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Bo Han , Bo He , Rui Nian , Mengmeng Ma , Shujing Zhang , Minghui Li , Amaury Lendasse

We present an approach to adaptively utilize deep neural networks in order to reduce the evaluation time on new examples without loss of accuracy. Rather than attempting to redesign or approximate existing networks, we propose two schemes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Tolga Bolukbasi , Joseph Wang , Ofer Dekel , Venkatesh Saligrama

Ensemble methods for classification and clustering have been effectively used for decades, while ensemble learning for outlier detection has only been studied recently. In this work, we design a new ensemble approach for outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Shebuti Rayana , Wen Zhong , Leman Akoglu

Deep learning based approaches have achieved significant progresses in different tasks like classification, detection, segmentation, and so on. Ensemble learning is widely known to further improve performance by combining multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Danlu Chen , Xu-Yao Zhang , Wei Zhang , Yao Lu , Xiuli Li , Tao Mei

Many automated machine learning methods, such as those for hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization, are computationally expensive because they involve training many different model configurations. In this work, we present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Martin Wistuba , Tejaswini Pedapati

Active learning has been studied extensively as a method for efficient data collection. Among the many approaches in literature, Expected Error Reduction (EER) (Roy and McCallum) has been shown to be an effective method for active learning:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Stephen Mussmann , Julia Reisler , Daniel Tsai , Ehsan Mousavi , Shayne O'Brien , Moises Goldszmidt

In Large Language Model (LLM) inference, early-exit refers to stopping computation at an intermediate layer once the prediction is sufficiently confident, thereby reducing latency and cost. However, recent LLMs adopt improved pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Rui Wei , Rui Du , Hanfei Yu , Devesh Tiwari , Jian Li , Zhaozhuo Xu , Hao Wang

Early Exiting is one of the most popular methods to achieve efficient inference. Current early exiting methods adopt the (weighted) sum of the cross entropy loss of all internal classifiers during training, imposing all these classifiers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ziqian Zeng , Yihuai Hong , Hongliang Dai , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen

Dense retrieval systems increasingly need to handle complex queries. In many realistic settings, users express intent through long instructions or task-specific descriptions, while target documents remain relatively simple and static. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seiji Maekawa , Moin Aminnaseri , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Estevam Hruschka

Dynamic early exiting has been proven to improve the inference speed of the pre-trained language model like BERT. However, all samples must go through all consecutive layers before early exiting and more complex samples usually go through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Boren Hu , Yun Zhu , Jiacheng Li , Siliang Tang

Currently, pre-trained models can be considered the default choice for a wide range of NLP tasks. Despite their SoTA results, there is practical evidence that these models may require a different number of computing layers for different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Nikita Balagansky , Daniil Gavrilov

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), like BERT, with self-supervision objectives exhibit remarkable performance and generalization across various tasks. However, they suffer in inference latency due to their large size. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

We study leveraging adaptive retrieval to ensure sufficient "bridge" documents are retrieved for reasoning-intensive retrieval. Bridge documents are those that contribute to the reasoning process yet are not directly relevant to the initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jongho Kim , Jaeyoung Kim , Seung-won Hwang , Jihyuk Kim , Yu Jin Kim , Moontae Lee

Dynamic early exiting aims to accelerate the inference of pre-trained language models (PLMs) by emitting predictions in internal layers without passing through the entire model. In this paper, we empirically analyze the working mechanism of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Lei Li , Yankai Lin , Deli Chen , Shuhuai Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Ensemble methods can deliver surprising performance gains but also bring significantly higher computational costs, e.g., can be up to 2048X in large-scale ensemble tasks. However, we found that the majority of computations in ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ziyue Li , Kan Ren , Yifan Yang , Xinyang Jiang , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li

Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities, but their practical deployment is hindered by significant computational costs. While adaptive computation methods like early-exiting promise to reduce these costs, they introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sangmin Bae

Early-Exit (EE) is a Large Language Model (LLM) architecture that accelerates inference by allowing easier tokens to be generated using only a subset of the model's layers. However, traditional batching frameworks are ill-suited for EE…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xuting Liu , Daniel Alexander , Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla , Behnaz Arzani , Vincent Liu

Our work aimed at experimentally assessing the benefits of model ensembling within the context of neural methods for passage reranking. Starting from relatively standard neural models, we use a previous technique named Fast Geometric…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Luís Borges , Bruno Martins , Jamie Callan

Deep learning models that perform well often have high computational costs. In this paper, we combine two approaches that try to reduce the computational cost while keeping the model performance high: pruning and early exit networks. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Alperen Görmez , Erdem Koyuncu

Early exiting allows instances to exit at different layers according to the estimation of difficulty. Previous works usually adopt heuristic metrics such as the entropy of internal outputs to measure instance difficulty, which suffers from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Tianxiang Sun , Xiangyang Liu , Wei Zhu , Zhichao Geng , Lingling Wu , Yilong He , Yuan Ni , Guotong Xie , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu