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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose language model representations into a sparse set of linear latent vectors. Recent works have improved SAEs using language model gradients, but these techniques require many expensive backward passes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Matthew Chen , Joshua Engels , Max Tegmark

Recent progress in scaling large models has motivated recommender systems to increase model depth and capacity to better leverage massive behavioral data. However, recommendation inputs are high-dimensional and extremely sparse, and simply…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yantao Yu , Sen Qiao , Lei Shen , Bing Wang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Energy preservation is one of the most important challenges in wireless sensor networks. In most applications, sensor networks consist of hundreds or thousands nodes that are dispersed in a wide field. Hierarchical architectures and data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-22 M. Mehdi Afsar

Large neural networks are very successful in various tasks. However, with limited data, the generalization capabilities of deep neural networks are also very limited. In this paper, we empirically start showing that intrinsically sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

During typical gradient-based training of deep neural networks, all of the model's parameters are updated at each iteration. Recent work has shown that it is possible to update only a small subset of the model's parameters during training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Yi-Lin Sung , Varun Nair , Colin Raffel

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary success in numerous areas. However, to attain this success, DNNs often carry a large number of weight parameters, leading to heavy costs of memory and computation resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Rongrong Ma , Jianyu Miao , Lingfeng Niu , Peng Zhang

We introduce an extension to the CLRS algorithmic learning benchmark, prioritizing scalability and the utilization of sparse representations. Many algorithms in CLRS require global memory or information exchange, mirrored in its execution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Julian Minder , Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Roger Wattenhofer

Neural network pruning is a fruitful area of research with surging interest in high sparsity regimes. Benchmarking in this domain heavily relies on faithful representation of the sparsity of subnetworks, which has been traditionally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Artem Vysogorets , Julia Kempe

Deep neural networks perform remarkably well on image classification tasks but remain vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. This work revisits linear dimensionality reduction as a simple, data-adapted defense. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Killian Steunou , Théo Druilhe , Sigurd Saue

Sparse neural networks are a key factor in developing resource-efficient machine learning applications. We propose the novel and powerful sparse learning method Adaptive Regularized Training (ART) to compress dense into sparse networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Patrick Glandorf , Timo Kaiser , Bodo Rosenhahn

Early exiting is an effective paradigm for improving the inference efficiency of deep networks. By constructing classifiers with varying resource demands (the exits), such networks allow easy samples to be output at early exits, removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yizeng Han , Yifan Pu , Zihang Lai , Chaofei Wang , Shiji Song , Junfen Cao , Wenhui Huang , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Data in the form of networks are increasingly available in a variety of areas, yet statistical models allowing for parameter estimates with desirable statistical properties for sparse networks remain scarce. To address this, we propose the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Mingli Chen , Kengo Kato , Chenlei Leng

In the realm of EEG decoding, enhancing the performance of artificial neural networks (ANNs) carries significant potential. This study introduces a novel approach, termed "weight freezing", that is anchored on the principles of ANN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhengqing Miao , Meirong Zhao

Sparse arrays enable resolving more direction of arrivals (DoAs) than antenna elements using non-uniform arrays. This is typically achieved by reconstructing the covariance of a virtual large uniform linear array (ULA), which is then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yoav Amiel , Dor H. Shmuel , Nir Shlezinger , Wasim Huleihel

We introduce the localized Lasso, which is suited for learning models that are both interpretable and have a high predictive power in problems with high dimensionality $d$ and small sample size $n$. More specifically, we consider a function…

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Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

In regression analysis under artificial neural networks, the prediction performance depends on determining the appropriate weights between layers. As randomly initialized weights are updated during back-propagation using the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Eunho Koo , Hyungjun Kim

Weight-sharing neural architecture search aims to optimize a configurable neural network model (supernet) for a variety of deployment scenarios across many devices with different resource constraints. Existing approaches use evolutionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Achintya Kundu , Laura Wynter , Rhui Dih Lee , Luis Angel Bathen

Reconstructing complex networks from measurable data is a fundamental problem for understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex networked systems. However, a significant challenge arises when we attempt to decode structural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-20 Xiao Han , Zhesi Shen , Wen-Xu Wang , Zengru Di

We study the benefits of different sparse architectures for deep reinforcement learning. In particular, we focus on image-based domains where spatially-biased and fully-connected architectures are common. Using these and several other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Fatima Davelouis , John D. Martin , Michael Bowling