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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) sometimes needs a large amount of data to converge in the training procedure and in some cases, each action of the agent may produce regret. This barrier naturally motivates different data sets or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yimin Shi

The rising computational and energy demands of deep learning, particularly in large-scale architectures such as foundation models and large language models (LLMs), pose significant challenges to sustainability. Traditional gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour , Huaiyuan Chu , Yanqing Zhang

Training deep neural networks on large-scale datasets requires significant hardware resources whose costs (even on cloud platforms) put them out of reach of smaller organizations, groups, and individuals. Backpropagation, the workhorse for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Deep neural networks excel at image classification, but their performance is far less robust to input perturbations than human perception. In this work we explore whether this shortcoming may be partly addressed by incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bhavin Choksi , Milad Mozafari , Callum Biggs O'May , Benjamin Ador , Andrea Alamia , Rufin VanRullen

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are usually trained sequentially from one layer to another, which causes forward, backward and update locking's problems, leading to poor performance in terms of training time. The existing parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Huw Lloyd , Xin Zhang , Darren Dancey , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

To strengthen data privacy and security, federated learning as an emerging machine learning technique is proposed to enable large-scale nodes, e.g., mobile devices, to distributedly train and globally share models without revealing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Ying-Chang Liang , Dong In Kim

This paper takes a parallel learning approach for robust and transparent AI. A deep neural network is trained in parallel on multiple tasks, where each task is trained only on a subset of the network resources. Each subset consists of…

Topological learning is a wide research area aiming at uncovering the mutual spatial relationships between the elements of a set. Some of the most common and oldest approaches involve the use of unsupervised competitive neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-03 Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Ciravegna , Vincenzo Randazzo , Giansalvo Cirrincione

Scaling model capacity has been vital in the success of deep learning. For a typical network, necessary compute resources and training time grow dramatically with model size. Conditional computation is a promising way to increase the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Louis Kirsch , Julius Kunze , David Barber

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing data. However, the traditional FL framework is cloud-based and suffers from high communication latency. On the other hand, the edge-based FL framework that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zhenxiao Zhang , Zhidong Gao , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

Collaborative learning across heterogeneous model architectures presents significant challenges in ensuring interoperability and preserving privacy. We propose a communication-efficient distributed learning framework that supports model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis

Cooperative inference across independently deployed machine learning models is increasingly desirable in distributed environments, as there is a growing need to leverage multiple models while keeping their data and model parameters private.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yui Hashimoto , Takayuki Nishio , Yuichi Kitagawa , Takahito Tanimura

Despite the outstanding performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for many vision tasks, the required computational cost during inference is problematic when resources are limited. In this context, we propose Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Adria Ruiz , Jakob Verbeek

Emerging network paradigms and applications increasingly rely on federated learning (FL) to enable collaborative intelligence while preserving privacy. However, the sustainability of such collaborative environments hinges on a fair and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhengwei Ni , Zhidu Li , Wei Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zehua Wang , F. Richard Yu , Victor C. M. Leung

We propose doubly nested network(DNNet) where all neurons represent their own sub-models that solve the same task. Every sub-model is nested both layer-wise and channel-wise. While nesting sub-models layer-wise is straight-forward with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Jaehong Kim , Sungeun Hong , Yongseok Choi , Jiwon Kim

Very deep convolutional neural networks offer excellent recognition results, yet their computational expense limits their impact for many real-world applications. We introduce BlockDrop, an approach that learns to dynamically choose which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zuxuan Wu , Tushar Nagarajan , Abhishek Kumar , Steven Rennie , Larry S. Davis , Kristen Grauman , Rogerio Feris

Federated learning performs distributed model training using local data hosted by agents. It shares only model parameter updates for iterative aggregation at the server. Although it is privacy-preserving by design, federated learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous for applications related to visual recognition and language understanding tasks. However, it is often prohibitive to use typical neural networks on devices like mobile phones or smart watches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Sujith Ravi

In this paper, we present an Adaptive Ensemble Learning framework that aims to boost the performance of deep neural networks by intelligently fusing features through ensemble learning techniques. The proposed framework integrates ensemble…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Neelesh Mungoli

The success of deep neural networks (DNN) in machine perception applications such as image classification and speech recognition comes at the cost of high computation and storage complexity. Inference of uncompressed large scale DNN models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Yihao Fang , Shervin Manzuri Shalmani , Rong Zheng