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Recently, deep models have had considerable success in several tasks, especially with low-level representations. However, effective learning from sparse noisy samples is a major challenge in most deep models, especially in domains with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Mayukh Das , Devendra Singh Dhami , Yang Yu , Gautam Kunapuli , Sriraam Natarajan

Efficient time series forecasting has become critical for real-world applications, particularly with deep neural networks (DNNs). Efficiency in DNNs can be achieved through sparse connectivity and reducing the model size. However, finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zahra Atashgahi , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Raymond Veldhuis , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Pruning has recently been widely adopted to reduce the parameter scale and improve the inference efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Mainstream pruning techniques often rely on uniform layerwise pruning strategies, which can lead to…

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To acquire a new skill, humans learn better and faster if a tutor, based on their current knowledge level, informs them of how much attention they should pay to particular content or practice problems. Similarly, a machine learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Paul Michel , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Jaime Carbonell , Graham Neubig

The increasing popularity of deep learning models has created new opportunities for developing AI-based recommender systems. Designing recommender systems using deep neural networks requires careful architecture design, and further…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Tunhou Zhang , Dehua Cheng , Yuchen He , Zhengxing Chen , Xiaoliang Dai , Liang Xiong , Yudong Liu , Feng Cheng , Yufan Cao , Feng Yan , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Wei Wen

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

We investigate a new paradigm that uses differentiable SLAM architectures in a self-supervised manner to train end-to-end deep learning models in various LiDAR based applications. To the best of our knowledge there does not exist any work…

Sparse expert models are a thirty-year old concept re-emerging as a popular architecture in deep learning. This class of architecture encompasses Mixture-of-Experts, Switch Transformers, Routing Networks, BASE layers, and others, all with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 William Fedus , Jeff Dean , Barret Zoph

Bias is a common problem inherent in recommender systems, which is entangled with users' preferences and poses a great challenge to unbiased learning. For debiasing tasks, the doubly robust (DR) method and its variants show superior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Haoxuan Li , Yan Lyu , Chunyuan Zheng , Peng Wu

We present Distributed Equivalent Substitution (DES) training, a novel distributed training framework for large-scale recommender systems with dynamic sparse features. DES introduces fully synchronous training to large-scale recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Haidong Rong , Yangzihao Wang , Feihu Zhou , Junjie Zhai , Haiyang Wu , Rui Lan , Fan Li , Han Zhang , Yuekui Yang , Zhenyu Guo , Di Wang

Deep Learning and factorization-based collaborative filtering recommendation models have undoubtedly dominated the scene of recommender systems in recent years. However, despite their outstanding performance, these methods require a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Vito Walter Anelli , Tommaso Di Noia , Eugenio Di Sciascio , Antonio Ferrara , Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino

In automatic speech recognition (ASR), model pruning is a widely adopted technique that reduces model size and latency to deploy neural network models on edge devices with resource constraints. However, multiple models with different…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zhaofeng Wu , Ding Zhao , Qiao Liang , Jiahui Yu , Anmol Gulati , Ruoming Pang

Recently, there have been increasing demands to construct compact deep architectures to remove unnecessary redundancy and to improve the inference speed. While many recent works focus on reducing the redundancy by eliminating unneeded…

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This paper provides a theoretical analysis of a new learning problem for recommender systems where users provide feedback by comparing pairs of items instead of rating them individually. We assume that comparisons stem from latent user and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Suryanarayana Sankagiri , Jalal Etesami , Matthias Grossglauser

In recent years many sparse linear discriminant analysis methods have been proposed for high-dimensional classification and variable selection. However, most of these proposals focus on binary classification and they are not directly…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-04-23 Qing Mai , Yi Yang , Hui Zou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been quite successful in solving many complex learning problems. However, DNNs tend to have a large number of learning parameters, leading to a large memory and computation requirement. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sangkyun Lee , Jeonghyun Lee

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have manifested remarkable advantages in power consumption and event-driven property during the inference process. To take full advantage of low power consumption and improve the efficiency of these models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Jiangrong Shen , Qi Xu , Jian K. Liu , Yueming Wang , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) is a rapidly evolving area of research that seeks to optimize the sparse initialization of a neural network by adapting its topology during training. It has been shown that under specific conditions, DST is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Aleksandra I. Nowak , Bram Grooten , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Jacek Tabor

The increasing complexity of tasks in robotics demands efficient strategies for multitask and continual learning. Traditional models typically rely on a universal policy for all tasks, facing challenges such as high computational costs and…

Supervisory signals are a critical resource for training learning to rank models. In many real-world search and retrieval scenarios, these signals may not be readily available or could be costly to obtain for some queries. The examples…

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