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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

Deep learning (DL) compilers rely on cost models and auto-tuning to optimize tensor programs for target hardware. However, existing approaches depend on large offline datasets, incurring high collection costs and offering suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chaoyao Shen , Linfeng Jiang , Yixian Shen , Tao Xu , Guoqing Li , Anuj Pathania , Andy D. Pimentel , Meng Zhang

Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) is essential for developing agents that can learn, adapt, and accumulate knowledge over time. However, a fundamental challenge persists as agents must strike a delicate balance between plasticity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chengqi Zheng , Haiyan Yin , Jianda Chen , Terence Ng , Yew-Soon Ong , Ivor Tsang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become essential for eliciting complex reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the substantial memory overhead of storing Key-Value (KV) caches during long-horizon rollouts acts as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sijia Luo , Xiaokang Zhang , Yuxuan Hu , Bohan Zhang , Ke Wang , Jinbo Su , Mengshu Sun , Lei Liang , Jing Zhang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is able to build latent representations that generalize well to unseen data. However, only a few SSL techniques exist for the online CL setting, where data arrives in small minibatches, the model must comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giacomo Cignoni , Andrea Cossu , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Joost van de Weijer , Antonio Carta

The proliferation of end devices has led to a distributed computing paradigm, wherein on-device machine learning models continuously process diverse data generated by these devices. The dynamic nature of this data, characterized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhengyi Zhong , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Jianguo Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

We propose a novel regularization-based continual learning method, dubbed as Adaptive Group Sparsity based Continual Learning (AGS-CL), using two group sparsity-based penalties. Our method selectively employs the two penalties when learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sangwon Jung , Hongjoon Ahn , Sungmin Cha , Taesup Moon

Applying machine learning techniques to the quickly growing data in science and industry requires highly-scalable algorithms. Large datasets are most commonly processed "data parallel" distributed across many nodes. Each node's contribution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Cedric Renggli , Saleh Ashkboos , Mehdi Aghagolzadeh , Dan Alistarh , Torsten Hoefler

Progressive Learning (PL) reduces pre-training computational overhead by gradually increasing model scale. While prior work has extensively explored depth expansion, width expansion remains significantly understudied, with the few existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qifan Yu , Xinyu Ma , Zhijian Zhuo , Minrui Wang , Deyi Liu , Shiyi Zhan , Yiyuan Ma , Liang Xiang , Xingyan Bin , Di He

Sparse Tensor Cores offer exceptional performance gains for AI workloads by exploiting structured 2:4 sparsity. However, their potential remains untapped for core scientific workloads such as stencil computations, which exhibit irregular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qi Li , Kun Li , Haozhi Han , Liang Yuan , Junshi Chen , Yunquan Zhang , Yifeng Chen , Hong An , Ting Cao , Mao Yang

Existing research on continual learning (CL) of a sequence of tasks focuses mainly on dealing with catastrophic forgetting (CF) to balance the learning plasticity of new tasks and the memory stability of old tasks. However, an ideal CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhi Wang , Zhongbin Wu , Yanni Li , Bing Liu , Guangxi Li , Yuping 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

Online continual learning requires the models to learn from constant, endless streams of data. While significant efforts have been made in this field, most were focused on mitigating the catastrophic forgetting issue to achieve better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xinrui Wang , Chuanxing Geng , Wenhai Wan , Shao-yuan Li , Songcan Chen

Continual Learning (CL) in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) suffers from catastrophic forgetting when adapting to new tasks, domains, or speakers. A common strategy to mitigate this is to store a subset of past data in memory for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Steven Vander Eeckt , Hugo Van hamme

Continual Learning (CL) aims at incrementally learning new tasks without forgetting the knowledge acquired from old ones. Experience Replay (ER) is a simple and effective rehearsal-based strategy, which optimizes the model with current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Zan Gao , Hehe Fan , Mohan Kankanhalli

AI-powered edge devices currently lack the ability to adapt their embedded inference models to the ever-changing environment. To tackle this issue, Continual Learning (CL) strategies aim at incrementally improving the decision capabilities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Leonardo Ravaglia , Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Capotondi , Francesco Conti , Lorenzo Pellegrini , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni , Luca Benini

Rehearsal-based continual learning (CL) mitigates catastrophic forgetting by maintaining a subset of samples from previous tasks for replay. Existing studies primarily focus on optimizing memory storage through coreset selection strategies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Thien-Thanh Dao , Le-Tuan Nguyen , Dung D. Le , Kok-Seng Wong

Continual learning (CL) trains NN models incrementally from a continuous stream of tasks. To remember previously learned knowledge, prior studies store old samples over a memory hierarchy and replay them when new tasks arrive. Edge devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xinyue Ma , Suyeon Jeong , Minjia Zhang , Di Wang , Jonghyun Choi , Myeongjae Jeon

Continual learning (CL) is a new online learning technique over sequentially generated streaming data from different tasks, aiming to maintain a small forgetting loss on previously-learned tasks. Existing work focuses on reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Shugang Hao , Lingjie Duan

Continual learning (CL) aims to train deep neural networks efficiently on streaming data while limiting the forgetting caused by new tasks. However, learning transferable knowledge with less interference between tasks is difficult, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Saurav Jha , Dong Gong , He Zhao , Lina Yao