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We present a feasibility-seeking approach to neural network training. This mathematical optimization framework is distinct from conventional gradient-based loss minimization and uses projection operators and iterative projection algorithms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Andreas Bergmeister , Manish Krishan Lal , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

Traditional neuromorphic hardware architectures rely on event-driven computation, where the asynchronous transmission of events, such as spikes, triggers local computations within synapses and neurons. While machine learning frameworks are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Eric Müller , Moritz Althaus , Elias Arnold , Philipp Spilger , Christian Pehle , Johannes Schemmel

FasterAI is a PyTorch-based library, aiming to facilitate the utilization of deep neural networks compression techniques such as sparsification, pruning, knowledge distillation, or regularization. The library is built with the purpose of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Nathan Hubens

Sparse neural networks attract increasing interest as they exhibit comparable performance to their dense counterparts while being computationally efficient. Pruning the dense neural networks is among the most widely used methods to obtain a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Zahra Atashgahi , Joost Pieterse , Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Raymond Veldhuis , Mykola Pechenizkiy

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success, but typically accompany high computation cost and numerous redundant weight parameters. To reduce the FLOPs, structure pruning is a popular approach to remove the entire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Bo Ji , Tianyi Chen

In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements in industrial applications are limiting their adoption. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haihao Shen , Hengyu Meng , Bo Dong , Zhe Wang , Ofir Zafrir , Yi Ding , Yu Luo , Hanwen Chang , Qun Gao , Ziheng Wang , Guy Boudoukh , Moshe Wasserblat

Scenic is an open-source JAX library with a focus on Transformer-based models for computer vision research and beyond. The goal of this toolkit is to facilitate rapid experimentation, prototyping, and research of new vision architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Alexey Gritsenko , Anurag Arnab , Matthias Minderer , Yi Tay

As the role of artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pivotal in modern society, the efficient training and deployment of deep neural networks have emerged as critical areas of focus. Recent advancements in attention-based large…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Kade M. Heckel , Thomas Nowotny

jNO (jax Neural Operators) is a JAX-native library for neural operators and foundation models with unified support for both data-driven and physics-informed training. Its core design is a tracing system in which domains, model calls,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Leon Armbruster , Rathan Ramesh , Georg Kruse , Christopher Straub

Among numerical libraries capable of computing gradient descent optimization, JAX stands out by offering more features, accelerated by an intermediate representation known as Jaxpr language. However, editing the Jaxpr code is not directly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Pierrick Pochelu

We implement a trust region method on the GPU for nonlinear least squares curve fitting problems using a new deep learning Python library called JAX. Our open source package, JAXFit, works for both unconstrained and constrained curve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Lucas R. Hofer , Milan Krstajić , Robert P. Smith

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

In this paper, we present gfnx, a fast and scalable package for training and evaluating Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) written in JAX. gfnx provides an extensive set of environments and metrics for benchmarking, accompanied with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Daniil Tiapkin , Artem Agarkov , Nikita Morozov , Ian Maksimov , Askar Tsyganov , Timofei Gritsaev , Sergey Samsonov

The deep learning revolution has greatly been accelerated by the 'hardware lottery': Recent advances in modern hardware accelerators and compilers paved the way for large-scale batch gradient optimization. Evolutionary optimization, on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Robert Tjarko Lange

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

Neural network pruning is a key technique towards engineering large yet scalable, interpretable, and generalizable models. Prior work on the subject has developed largely along two orthogonal directions: (1) differentiable pruning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Taisuke Yasuda , Kyriakos Axiotis , Gang Fu , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

We introduce Optimistix: a nonlinear optimisation library built in JAX and Equinox. Optimistix introduces a novel, modular approach for its minimisers and least-squares solvers. This modularity relies on new practical abstractions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Jason Rader , Terry Lyons , Patrick Kidger

We present L0Learn: an open-source package for sparse linear regression and classification using $\ell_0$ regularization. L0Learn implements scalable, approximate algorithms, based on coordinate descent and local combinatorial optimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder , Tim Nonet