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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are popular models of brain function. The typical training strategy is to adjust their input-output behavior so that it matches that of the biological circuit of interest. Even though this strategy ensures…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-09 Alessandro Salatiello , Martin A. Giese

In principle, sparse neural networks should be significantly more efficient than traditional dense networks. Neurons in the brain exhibit two types of sparsity; they are sparsely interconnected and sparsely active. These two types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Kevin Lee Hunter , Lawrence Spracklen , Subutai Ahmad

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

Exploiting sparsity in deep neural networks (DNNs) has been a promising area for meeting the growing computation requirements. To minimize the overhead of sparse acceleration, hardware designers have proposed structured sparsity support,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Geonhwa Jeong , Po-An Tsai , Abhimanyu R. Bambhaniya , Stephen W. Keckler , Tushar Krishna

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as a core tool for machine learning. The computations performed during DNN training and inference are dominated by operations on the weight matrices describing the DNN. As DNNs incorporate more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Jeremy Kepner , Manoj Kumar , José Moreira , Pratap Pattnaik , Mauricio Serrano , Henry Tufo

Sparse deep neural networks(DNNs) are efficient in both memory and compute when compared to dense DNNs. But due to irregularity in computation of sparse DNNs, their efficiencies are much lower than that of dense DNNs on regular parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Dharma Teja Vooturi , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Sasikanth Avancha

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), that operate via binary spikes distributed over time, have emerged as a promising energy efficient ML paradigm for resource-constrained devices. However, the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) SNNs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods train neural networks by maintaining sparsity while dynamically adapting the network topology. Despite the promise of reduced computation, DST methods converge significantly slower than dense training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mohammed Adnan , Rohan Jain , Tom Jacobs , Ekansh Sharma , Rahul G. Krishnan , Rebekka Burkholz , Yani Ioannou

Efficient continual learning in humans is enabled by a rich set of neurophysiological mechanisms and interactions between multiple memory systems. The brain efficiently encodes information in non-overlapping sparse codes, which facilitates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

Despite their tremendous success and versatility, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such as Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from inference inefficiency and rely on advanced computational infrastructure. To address these challenges and make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mohsen Dehghankar , Mahdi Erfanian , Abolfazl Asudeh

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

The event streams generated by dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are sparse and non-uniform in the spatial domain, while still dense and redundant in the temporal domain. Although spiking neural network (SNN), the event-driven neuromorphic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Yuan Zhang , Jian Cao , Ling Zhang , Jue Chen , Wenyu Sun , Yuan Wang

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

Many neural networks exhibit stability in their activation patterns over time in response to inputs from sensors operating under real-world conditions. By capitalizing on this property of natural signals, we propose a Recurrent Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Daniel Neil , Jun Haeng Lee , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

Learning predictive models from observations using deep neural networks (DNNs) is a promising new approach to many real-world planning and control problems. However, common DNNs are too unstructured for effective planning, and current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziang Liu , Genggeng Zhou , Jeff He , Tobia Marcucci , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu , Yunzhu Li

This work presents a two-stage adaptive framework for progressively developing deep neural network (DNN) architectures that generalize well for a given training data set. In the first stage, a layerwise training approach is adopted where a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 C G Krishnanunni , Tan Bui-Thanh

A fundamental task for artificial intelligence is learning. Deep Neural Networks have proven to cope perfectly with all learning paradigms, i.e. supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, traditional deep learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Tiago Pinto , Selima Curci , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Damien Ernst , Zita A. Vale

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices remains challenging due to their quadratically increasing computations with the sequence length. Existing studies for dynamic attention pruning are designed for hardware with massively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiawen Qi , Chang Gao , Zhaochun Ren , Qinyu Chen

The spiking neural network (SNN) mimics the information processing operation in the human brain, represents and transmits information in spike trains containing wealthy spatial and temporal information, and shows superior performance on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng