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Training on edge devices enables personalized model fine-tuning to enhance real-world performance and maintain data privacy. However, the gradient computation for backpropagation in the training requires significant memory buffers to store…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 I-Hsuan Li , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Recently, sparse training has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient deep learning on edge devices. The current research mainly devotes efforts to reducing training costs by further increasing model sparsity. However, increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Geng Yuan , Yanyu Li , Sheng Li , Zhenglun Kong , Sergey Tulyakov , Xulong Tang , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

The Vision Transformer architecture is a deep learning model inspired by the success of the Transformer model in Natural Language Processing. However, the self-attention mechanism, large number of parameters, and the requirement for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yogi Prasetyo , Novanto Yudistira , Agus Wahyu Widodo

With the prevalence of pre-training-fine-tuning paradigm, how to efficiently adapt the pre-trained model to the downstream tasks has been an intriguing issue. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods have been proposed for low-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Weixi Song , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao , Bo Du

Sparsification-based pruning has been an important category in model compression. Existing methods commonly set sparsity-inducing penalty terms to suppress the importance of dropped weights, which is regarded as the suppressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shengji Tang , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Peng Ye , Chong Yu , Baopu Li , Tao Chen

The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tianyi Chen , Bo Ji , Yixin Shi , Tianyu Ding , Biyi Fang , Sheng Yi , Xiao Tu

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods achieve state-of-the-art results in sparse neural network training, matching the generalization of dense models while enabling sparse training and inference. Although the resulting models are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mike Lasby , Anna Golubeva , Utku Evci , Mihai Nica , Yani Ioannou

Although sparse training has been successfully used in various resource-limited deep learning tasks to save memory, accelerate training, and reduce inference time, the reliability of the produced sparse models remains unexplored. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Bowen Lei , Ruqi Zhang , Dongkuan Xu , Bani Mallick

Recently, deep learning methods such as the convolutional neural networks have gained prominence in the area of image denoising. This is owing to their proven ability to surpass state-of-the-art classical image denoising algorithms such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Basit O. Alawode , Mudassir Masood

Turning the weights to zero when training a neural network helps in reducing the computational complexity at inference. To progressively increase the sparsity ratio in the network without causing sharp weight discontinuities during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Antoine Vanderschueren , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

The inference process for large language models is slow and memory-intensive, with one of the most critical bottlenecks being excessive Key-Value (KV) cache accesses. This paper introduces "Double Sparsity," a novel post-training sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Shuo Yang , Ying Sheng , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Lianmin Zheng

The core of a good model is in its ability to focus only on important information that reflects the basic patterns and consistencies, thus pulling out a clear, noise-free signal from the dataset. This necessitates using a simplified model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Saeed Damadi , Soroush Zolfaghari , Mahdi Rezaie , Jinglai Shen

Sparse lexical representation learning has demonstrated much progress in improving passage retrieval effectiveness in recent models such as DeepImpact, uniCOIL, and SPLADE. This paper describes a straightforward yet effective approach for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Jheng-Hong Yang , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin

Network pruning reduces the computational requirements of large neural networks, with N:M sparsity -- retaining only N out of every M consecutive weights -- offering a compelling balance between compressed model quality and hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xiang Meng , Mehdi Makni , Rahul Mazumder

Neural networks are trained by choosing an architecture and training the parameters. The choice of architecture is often by trial and error or with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. While NAS provides some automation, it often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

State-of-the-art approaches toward image restoration can be classified into model-based and learning-based. The former - best represented by sparse coding techniques - strive to exploit intrinsic prior knowledge about the unknown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Fangfang Wu , Weisheng Dong , Guangming Shi , Xin Li

The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Badong Chen

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as one of the most promising techniques to reconstruct the unknown shapes of high-dimensional spaces from observed data samples. TDA, thus, yields key shape descriptors in the form of persistent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Wei Guo , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton , Ashis G. Banerjee