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Recent advances in convolutional neural networks(CNNs) usually come with the expense of excessive computational overhead and memory footprint. Network compression aims to alleviate this issue by training compact models with comparable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Xin-Yu Zhang , Kai Zhao , Taihong Xiao , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Normalizing flows define a probability distribution by an explicit invertible transformation $\boldsymbol{\mathbf{z}}=f(\boldsymbol{\mathbf{x}})$. In this work, we present implicit normalizing flows (ImpFlows), which generalize normalizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-18 Cheng Lu , Jianfei Chen , Chongxuan Li , Qiuhao Wang , Jun Zhu

The field of video compression has developed some of the most sophisticated and efficient compression algorithms known in the literature, enabling very high compressibility for little loss of information. Whilst some of these techniques are…

The performance and efficiency of distributed machine learning (ML) depends significantly on how long it takes for nodes to exchange state changes. Overly-aggressive attempts to reduce communication often sacrifice final model accuracy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Hyeontaek Lim , David G. Andersen , Michael Kaminsky

Large-scale AI models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Diffusion Models (DMs), have grown rapidly in size, creating significant challenges for efficient deployment on resource-constrained hardware. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Tianyi Zhang , Mohsen Hariri , Shaochen Zhong , Vipin Chaudhary , Yang Sui , Xia Hu , Anshumali Shrivastava

Most data is automatically collected and only ever "seen" by algorithms. Yet, data compressors preserve perceptual fidelity rather than just the information needed by algorithms performing downstream tasks. In this paper, we characterize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yann Dubois , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Karen Ullrich , Chris J. Maddison

High-dimensional spatio-temporal dynamics can often be encoded in a low-dimensional subspace. Engineering applications for modeling, characterization, design, and control of such large-scale systems often rely on dimensionality reduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Shaowu Pan , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Let a cluster (network) of sensors be connected by the communication links, each link having a capacity upper bound. Each sensor observes a discrete random variable in private and one sensor serves as a cluster header or sink. Here, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Ni Ding , Parastoo Sadeghi , David Smith , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Context. Processing radio interferometric data often requires storing forward-predicted model data. In direction-dependent calibration, these data may have a volume an order of magnitude larger than the original data. Existing lossy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 A. R. Offringa , R. J. van Weeren

Normalizing flows are generative models that provide tractable density estimation via an invertible transformation from a simple base distribution to a complex target distribution. However, this technique cannot directly model data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Brendan Leigh Ross , Jesse C. Cresswell

In recent years, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed to tackle the problem of optical flow estimation and achieved promising results. However, they hardly consider that most videos are compressed and thus ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shili Zhou , Xuhao Jiang , Weimin Tan , Ruian He , Bo Yan

This article discusses the theory, model, implementation and performance of a combinatorial fuzzy-binary and-or (FBAR) algorithm for lossless data compression (LDC) and decompression (LDD) on 8-bit characters. A combinatorial pairwise flags…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Philip B. Alipour

Modern scientific simulations and instruments generate data volumes that overwhelm memory and storage, throttling scalability. Lossy compression mitigates this by trading controlled error for reduced footprint and throughput gains, yet…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Skyler Ruiter , Jiannan Tian , Fengguang Song

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are widely used in deep generative models for their exact likelihood estimation and efficient sampling. However, they require substantial memory since the latent space matches the input dimension. Multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Wei Chen , Shian Du , Shigui Li , Delu Zeng , John Paisley

This paper introduces a new method for inter-frame coding based on two complementary autoencoders: MOFNet and CodecNet. MOFNet aims at computing and conveying the Optical Flow and a pixel-wise coding Mode selection. The optical flow is used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Théo Ladune , Pierrick Philippe , Wassim Hamidouche , Lu Zhang , Olivier Déforges

Existing AI-based point cloud compression methods struggle with dependence on specific training data distributions, which limits their real-world deployment. Implicit Neural Representation (INR) methods solve the above problem by encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenjie Huang , Qi Yang , Shuting Xia , He Huang , Zhu Li , Yiling Xu

We present the numerical flow iteration (NuFI) for solving the Vlasov--Poisson equation. In a certain sense specified later herein, NuFI provides infinite resolution of the distribution function. NuFI exactly preserves positivity, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Matthias Kirchhart , Rostislav-Paul Wilhelm

This paper investigates the temporal evolution of high-speed compressible fluids in irregular flow fields using the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO). We reconstruct the irregular flow field point set into sequential format compatible with FNO…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Yifan Nie , Qiaoxin Li

The rapid pace of innovation in biological microscopy imaging has led to large images, putting pressure on data storage and impeding efficient sharing, management, and visualization. This necessitates the development of efficient…

Collaborative intelligence is a new paradigm for efficient deployment of deep neural networks across the mobile-cloud infrastructure. By dividing the network between the mobile and the cloud, it is possible to distribute the computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-19 Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajic