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Low bit-width weights and activations are an effective way of combating the increasing need for both memory and compute power of Deep Neural Networks. In this work, we present a probabilistic training method for Neural Network with both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jorn W. T. Peters , Max Welling

This paper presents a semantic-enhanced receiver framework for transmitting natural language sentences over noisy wireless channels using multiple short block codes. After ASCII encoding, the sentence is divided into segments, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Wanchun Liu , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we apply deep learning for communication over dispersive channels with power detection, as encountered in low-cost optical intensity modulation/direct detection (IM/DD) links. We consider an autoencoder based on the recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Boris Karanov , Gabriele Liga , Vahid Aref , Domaniç Lavery , Polina Bayvel , Laurent Schmalen

While neural network binary classifiers are often evaluated on metrics such as Accuracy and $F_1$-Score, they are commonly trained with a cross-entropy objective. How can this training-evaluation gap be addressed? While specific techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Nathan Tsoi , Kate Candon , Deyuan Li , Yofti Milkessa , Marynel Vázquez

Cluster-sparse channels often exist in frequencyselective fading broadband communication systems. The main reason is received scattered waveform exhibits cluster structure which is caused by a few reflectors near the receiver. Conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Guan Gui , Li Xu , Lin Shan

We describe Sparse Non-negative Matrix (SNM) language model estimation using multinomial loss on held-out data. Being able to train on held-out data is important in practical situations where the training data is usually mismatched from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Ciprian Chelba , Fernando Pereira

This paper presents a method for jointly designing the transmitter-receiver pair in a block-by-block communication system that employs (intra-block) decision feedback detection. We provide closed-form expressions for transmitter-receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Fang Xu , Tim Davidson , Jian-Kang Zhang , K. Max Wong

The requirement of high spectrum efficiency puts forward higher requirements on frame synchronization (FS) in wireless communication systems. Meanwhile, a large number of nonlinear devices or blocks will inevitably cause nonlinear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Chaojin Qing , Wang Yu , Shuhai Tang , Chuangui Rao , Jiafan Wang

Non-autoregressive end-to-end ASR framework might be potentially appropriate for code-switching recognition task thanks to its inherent property that present output token being independent of historical ones. However, it still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Yizhou Peng , Jicheng Zhang , Haihua Xu , Hao Huang , Eng Siong Chng

The performance of sparse signal recovery from noise corrupted, underdetermined measurements can be improved if both sparsity and correlation structure of signals are exploited. One typical correlation structure is the intra-block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Benyuan Liu , Zhilin Zhang , Hongqi Fan , Qiang Fu

Noisy speech separation systems are typically trained on fully-synthetic mixtures, limiting generalization to real-world scenarios. Though training on mixtures of in-domain (thus often noisy) speech is possible, we show that this leads to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Matthew Maciejewski , Samuele Cornell

Recently, encoder-decoder neural models have achieved great success on text generation tasks. However, one problem of this kind of models is that their performances are usually limited by the scale of well-labeled data, which are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Zang , Xiaojun Wan

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful framework to address the discrepancy between loss functions used during training and the final evaluation metrics to be used at test time. When applied to neural Machine Translation (MT), it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Julia Ive , Zixu Wang , Marina Fomicheva , Lucia Specia

Existing Machine Translation (MT) research often suggests a single, fixed set of hyperparameters for word segmentation models, symmetric Byte Pair Encoding (BPE), which applies the same number of merge operations (NMO) to train tokenizers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saumitra Yadav , Manish Shrivastava

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dmitry Kovalev , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Peter Richtarik , Sebastian U. Stich

This paper introduces the minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion as an advanced information-theoretic loss function tailored for deep learning applications in wireless communications. The MEE criterion leverages higher-order statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-03 Rumeshika Pallewela , Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves

Binaural speech enhancement (BSE) aims to jointly improve the speech quality and intelligibility of noisy signals received by hearing devices and preserve the spatial cues of the target for natural listening. Existing methods often suffer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jingyuan Wang , Jie Zhang , Shihao Chen , Miao Sun

Error-correcting codes enable reliable communication, yet practical soft decoding remains challenging across code families and block lengths. We propose SB-ECC, a score-based decoder that casts decoding as continuous-time denoising. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alon Helvits , Eliya Nachmani

In this paper the choice of the Bernoulli distribution as biased distribution for importance sampling (IS) Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation of linear block codes over binary symmetric channels (BSCs) is studied. Based on the analytical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Gianmarco Romano , Domenico Ciuonzo

Consistency learning using input image, feature, or network perturbations has shown remarkable results in semi-supervised semantic segmentation, but this approach can be seriously affected by inaccurate predictions of unlabelled training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yuyuan Liu , Yu Tian , Yuanhong Chen , Fengbei Liu , Vasileios Belagiannis , Gustavo Carneiro