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The deep learning trend has recently impacted a variety of fields, including communication systems, where various approaches have explored the application of neural networks in place of traditional designs. Neural networks flexibly allow…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great capability of solving various artificial intelligence tasks. However, the increasing model size has raised challenges in employing them in resource-limited applications. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Hongyang Gao , Zhengyang Wang , Shuiwang Ji

Transformers are one of the most important machine learning workloads today. Training one is a very compute-intensive task, often taking days or weeks, and significant attention has been given to optimizing transformers. Despite this,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Andrei Ivanov , Nikoli Dryden , Tal Ben-Nun , Shigang Li , Torsten Hoefler

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

We consider distributed online learning protocols that control the exchange of information between local learners in a round-based learning scenario. The learning performance of such a protocol is intuitively optimal if approximately the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Michael Kamp , Mario Boley , Michael Mock , Daniel Keren , Assaf Schuster , Izchak Sharfman

We train neural networks to optimize a Minimum Description Length score, i.e., to balance between the complexity of the network and its accuracy at a task. We show that networks optimizing this objective function master tasks involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Nur Lan , Michal Geyer , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir

The increasing need for robustness, reliability, and determinism in wireless networks for industrial and mission-critical applications is the driver for the growth of new innovative methods. The study presented in this work makes use of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Gabriele Formis , Amanda Ericson , Stefan Forsstrom , Kyi Thar , Gianluca Cena , Stefano Scanzio

With distributed machine learning being a prominent technique for large-scale machine learning tasks, communication complexity has become a major bottleneck for speeding up training and scaling up machine numbers. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pengyun Yue , Hanzhen Zhao , Cong Fang , Di He , Liwei Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Song-chun Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performances in a wide range of applications including image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Previous research on characterizing the generalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Shan Lin , Jingwei Zhang

We consider distributed optimization over a $d$-dimensional space, where $K$ remote clients send coded gradient estimates over an {\em additive Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (MAC)} with noise variance $\sigma_z^2$. Furthermore, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shubham Jha

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a family of neural network models that perform inference on graph data by interleaving vertex-wise operations and message-passing exchanges across nodes. Concerning the latter, two key questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates a deep understanding of their fundamental performance limits. This paper investigates the limits of LLM inference, focusing on hardware-imposed bottlenecks in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Michael Davies , Neal Crago , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam , Christos Kozyrakis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have a large number of parameters and take significantly large hardware resources to compute, so edge devices struggle to run high-level networks. This paper proposes a novel method to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Athul Shibu , Abhishek Kumar , Heechul Jung , Dong-Gyu Lee

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

When optimizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a specific image-based task, specialists commonly overshoot the number of convolutional layers in their designs. By implication, these CNNs are unnecessarily resource intensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mats L. Richter , Julius Schöning , Anna Wiedenroth , Ulf Krumnack

Machine learning (ML) tools such as encoder-decoder convolutional neural networks (CNN) can represent incredibly complex nonlinear functions which map between combinations of images and scalars. For example, CNNs can be used to map…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Alexander Scheinker

Nowadays, large and complex deep learning (DL) models are increasingly trained in a distributed manner across multiple worker machines, in which extensive communications between workers pose serious scaling problems. In this article, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Shaohuai Shi , Zhenheng Tang , Xiaowen Chu , Chengjian Liu , Wei Wang , Bo Li

In this paper, a communication-efficient multi-processor compressed sensing framework based on the approximate message passing algorithm is proposed. We perform lossy compression on the data being communicated between processors, resulting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Puxiao Han , Junan Zhu , Ruixin Niu , Dror Baron

Neural networks are not learning optimal decision boundaries. We show that decision boundaries are situated in areas of low training data density. They are impacted by few training samples which can easily lead to overfitting. We provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Johannes Schneider