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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

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Modern deep-learning systems are specialized to problem settings in which training occurs once and then never again, as opposed to continual-learning settings in which training occurs continually. If deep-learning systems are applied in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Shibhansh Dohare , J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia , Parash Rahman , A. Rupam Mahmood , Richard S. Sutton

Model fusion aims to integrate several deep neural network (DNN) models' knowledge into one by fusing parameters, and it has promising applications, such as improving the generalization of foundation models and parameter averaging in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zexi Li , Zhiqi Li , Jie Lin , Tao Shen , Jun Xiao , Yike Guo , Tao Lin , Chao Wu

Overfitting is a major problem in training machine learning models, specifically deep neural networks. This problem may be caused by imbalanced datasets and initialization of the model parameters, which conforms the model too closely to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

The success of deep learning comes at a tremendous computational and energy cost, and the scalability of training massively overparametrized neural networks is becoming a real barrier to the progress of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Yichuan Deng , Hang Hu , Zhao Song , Omri Weinstein , Danyang Zhuo

Scaling neural networks has driven breakthrough advances in machine learning, yet this paradigm fails in deep reinforcement learning (DRL), where larger models often degrade performance due to unique optimization pathologies such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Guozheng Ma , Lu Li , Zilin Wang , Haoyu Wang , Shengchao Hu , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

Complex networks are ubiquitous to several Computer Science domains. Centrality measures are an important analysis mechanism to uncover vital elements of complex networks. However, these metrics have high computational costs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Felipe Grando , Lisando Z. Granville , Luis C. Lamb

In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been rapidly developed in various applications, together with increasingly complex architectures. The performance gain of these DNNs generally comes with high computational costs and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yiren Zhou , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Ngai-Man Cheung , Pascal Frossard

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are an extremely promising method to reduce deep neural networks' complexity and power consumption massively. Binarization techniques, however, suffer from ineligible performance degradation compared to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tal Rozen , Moshe Kimhi , Brian Chmiel , Avi Mendelson , Chaim Baskin

Deep learning models in recommender systems are usually trained in the batch mode, namely iteratively trained on a fixed-size window of training data. Such batch mode training of deep learning models suffers from low training efficiency,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Yichao Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Zhirong Liu , Xiuqiang He

Modular neural networks outperform nonmodular neural networks on tasks ranging from visual question answering to robotics. These performance improvements are thought to be due to modular networks' superior ability to model the compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Akhilan Boopathy , Sunshine Jiang , William Yue , Jaedong Hwang , Abhiram Iyer , Ila Fiete

Deep neural networks are among the most widely applied machine learning tools showing outstanding performance in a broad range of tasks. We present a method for folding a deep neural network of arbitrary size into a single neuron with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Florian Stelzer , André Röhm , Raul Vicente , Ingo Fischer , Serhiy Yanchuk

As deep learning methodologies have developed, it has been generally agreed that increasing neural network size improves model quality. However, this is at the expense of memory and compute requirements, which also need to be increased.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mitchelle Rasquinha , Gil Tabak

The choice of learning rate (LR) functions and policies has evolved from a simple fixed LR to the decaying LR and the cyclic LR, aiming to improve the accuracy and reduce the training time of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). This paper presents…

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We present a simple and effective pretraining strategy {D}en{o}ising {T}raining DoT for neural machine translation. Specifically, we update the model parameters with source- and target-side denoising tasks at the early stage and then tune…

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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

One of the major drawbacks of deep learning models for computer vision has been their inability to retain multiple sources of information in a modular fashion. For instance, given a network that has been trained on a source task, we would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Samar Khanna , Skanda Vaidyanath , Akash Velu

Deep learning recommendation systems at scale have provided remarkable gains through increasing model capacity (i.e. wider and deeper neural networks), but it comes at significant training cost and infrastructure cost. Model pruning is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiaocong Du , Bhargav Bhushanam , Jiecao Yu , Dhruv Choudhary , Tianxiang Gao , Sherman Wong , Louis Feng , Jongsoo Park , Yu Cao , Arun Kejariwal

With the increasing size of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, the high memory space requirements and computational complexity have become an obstacle for efficient DNN implementations. To ease this problem, using reduced-precision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jinming Lu , Siyuan Lu , Zhisheng Wang , Chao Fang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang , Li Du

Compressing deep neural network (DNN) models becomes a very important and necessary technique for real-world applications, such as deploying those models on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular methods for model…

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