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Training a sparse neural network from scratch requires optimizing connections at the same time as the weights themselves. Typically, the weights are redistributed after a predefined number of weight updates, removing a fraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mathias Parger , Alexander Ertl , Paul Eibensteiner , Joerg H. Mueller , Martin Winter , Markus Steinberger

Deep Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) relies on neural networks with numerous parameters in multi-agent scenarios, often incurring substantial computational overhead. Consequently, there is an urgent need to expedite training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Pihe Hu , Shaolong Li , Zhuoran Li , Ling Pan , Longbo Huang

We propose a distributed approach to train deep convolutional generative adversarial neural network (DC-CGANs) models. Our method reduces the imbalance between generator and discriminator by partitioning the training data according to data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Massimiliano Lupo Pasini , Vittorio Gabbi , Junqi Yin , Simona Perotto , Nouamane Laanait

Existing deep neural networks (DNNs) that achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on both clean and adversarially-perturbed images rely on either activation or weight conditioned convolution operations. However, such conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Souvik Kundu , Sairam Sundaresan , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Shunlin Lu , Han Tang , Peter A. Beerel

Recent work introduced progressive network growing as a promising way to ease the training for large GANs, but the model design and architecture-growing strategy still remain under-explored and needs manual design for different image data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lanlan Liu , Yuting Zhang , Jia Deng , Stefano Soatto

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), as a framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, have attracted huge attention and have proven to be powerful in a variety of tasks. However, training GANs is well known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Zi-Yi Dou

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Recent advances in Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) have pushed the frontier of sparse neural network training in structured and unstructured contexts, matching dense-model performance while drastically reducing parameter counts to facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Abhishek Tyagi , Arjun Iyer , William H Renninger , Christopher Kanan , Yuhao Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be effective in solving many real-life problems, but its high computation cost prohibits those models from being deployed to edge devices. Pruning, as a method to introduce zeros to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Xiaolong Ma , Haoran Li , Junwen Luo , Zihao Zhao , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

Generative adversarial networks have achieved remarkable performance on various tasks but suffer from training instability. Despite many training strategies proposed to improve training stability, this issue remains as a challenge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Faqiang Liu , Mingkun Xu , Guoqi Li , Jing Pei , Luping Shi , Rong Zhao

Sparse training is emerging as a promising avenue for reducing the computational cost of training neural networks. Several recent studies have proposed pruning methods using learnable thresholds to efficiently explore the non-uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Abhisek Kundu , Naveen K. Mellempudi , Dharma Teja Vooturi , Bharat Kaul , Pradeep Dubey

Supervised deep learning methods are enjoying enormous success in many practical applications of computer vision and have the potential to revolutionize robotics. However, the marked performance degradation to biases and imbalanced data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Aadarsh Sahoo , Ankit Singh , Rameswar Panda , Rogerio Feris , Abir Das

We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are challenging to train stably, and a promising remedy of injecting instance noise into the discriminator input has not been very effective in practice. In this paper, we propose Diffusion-GAN, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhendong Wang , Huangjie Zheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

This study delves into the application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) within the context of imbalanced datasets. Our primary aim is to enhance the performance and stability of GANs in such datasets. In pursuit of this objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Ali Anaissi , Yuanzhe Jia , Ali Braytee , Mohamad Naji , Widad Alyassine

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a family of generative models that do not minimize a single training criterion. Unlike other generative models, the data distribution is learned via a game between a generator (the generative…

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have drawn a lot of attentions for learning the underlying distribution of data in various applications. Despite their wide applicability, training GANs is notoriously difficult. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maziar Sanjabi

We present a novel method and analysis to train generative adversarial networks (GAN) in a stable manner. As shown in recent analysis, training is often undermined by the probability distribution of the data being zero on neighborhoods of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Simon Jenni , Paolo Favaro