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Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative for text generation, distinguished by their native support for parallel decoding. In practice, block inference is crucial for avoiding order misalignment in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lizhuo Luo , Shenggui Li , Yonggang Wen , Tianwei Zhang

This work presents a multiscale model reduction approach to discontinuous fields identification problems in the framework of Bayesian inference. An ensemble-based variable separation (VS) method is proposed to approximate multiscale basis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Na Ou , Guang Lin , Lijian Jiang

We present a hierarchical Bayesian learning approach to infer jointly sparse parameter vectors from multiple measurement vectors. Our model uses separate conditionally Gaussian priors for each parameter vector and common gamma-distributed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-27 Jan Glaubitz , Anne Gelb

This paper focuses on the development of novel greedy techniques for distributed learning under sparsity constraints. Greedy techniques have widely been used in centralized systems due to their low computational requirements and at the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Symeon Chouvardas , Gerasimos Mileounis , Nicholas Kalouptsidis , Sergios Theodoridis

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

Active learning enables efficient model training by leveraging interactions between machine learning agents and human annotators. We study and propose a novel framework that formulates batch active learning from the sparse approximation's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Maohao Shen , Bowen Jiang , Jacky Yibo Zhang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Last years have seen a regain of interest for the use of stochastic block modeling (SBM) in recommender systems. These models are seen as a flexible alternative to tensor decomposition techniques that are able to handle labeled data. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Gaël Poux-Médard , Julien Velcin , Sabine Loudcher

Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) constructs an extremely sparse probabilistic model with very competitive generalization. However, SBL needs to invert a big covariance matrix with complexity $O(M^3)$ (M: feature size) for updating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiahua Luo , Chi-Man Wong , Chi-Man Vong

The performance of machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms generally depends on data representation. That is why, much of the current effort in performing machine learning algorithms goes into the design of preprocessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fadi Dornaika , Ahmad Khoder , Abdelmalik Moujahid , Wassim Khoder

In this paper we address the problem of discretization in the context of learning Bayesian networks (BNs) from data containing both continuous and discrete variables. We describe a new technique for <EM>multivariate</EM> discretization,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Stefano Monti , Gregory F. Cooper

We propose a Bayesian approach to learn discriminative dictionaries for sparse representation of data. The proposed approach infers probability distributions over the atoms of a discriminative dictionary using a Beta Process. It also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Naveed Akhtar , Faisal Shafait , Ajmal Mian

We provide simple schemes to build Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs), block by block, inspired by a recent idea of computation skeletons. We show how by adjusting the types of blocks that are used within the computation skeleton, we can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-12 Hao Henry Zhou , Yunyang Xiong , Vikas Singh

In the present paper we study a sparse stochastic network enabled with a block structure. The popular Stochastic Block Model (SBM) and the Degree Corrected Block Model (DCBM) address sparsity by placing an upper bound on the maximum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-08 Majid Noroozi , Marianna Pensky , Ramchandra Rimal

Bayesian methods hold significant promise for improving the uncertainty quantification ability and robustness of deep neural network models. Recent research has seen the investigation of a number of approximate Bayesian inference methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Meet P. Vadera , Adam D. Cobb , Brian Jalaian , Benjamin M. Marlin

Spectral-based subspace clustering methods have proved successful in many challenging applications such as gene sequencing, image recognition, and motion segmentation. In this work, we first propose a novel spectral-based subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Hankui Peng , Nicos G. Pavlidis

Sparse variable selection improves interpretability and generalization in high-dimensional learning by selecting a small subset of informative features. Recent advances in Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) have enabled solving large-scale…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Petros Prastakos , Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder

We present a supervised-learning algorithm from graph data (a set of graphs) for arbitrary twice-differentiable loss functions and sparse linear models over all possible subgraph features. To date, it has been shown that under all possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-21 Ichigaku Takigawa , Hiroshi Mamitsuka

This study addresses the problem of discrete signal reconstruction from the perspective of sparse Bayesian learning (SBL). Generally, it is intractable to perform the Bayesian inference with the ideal discretization prior under the SBL…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Jisheng Dai , An Liu , Hing Cheung So

In this paper, the use of the Generalized Beta Mixture (GBM) and Horseshoe distributions as priors in the Bayesian Compressive Sensing framework is proposed. The distributions are considered in a two-layer hierarchical model, making the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Zahra Sabetsarvestani , Hamidreza Amindavar

Block-sparse regularization is already well-known in active thermal imaging and is used for multiple measurement based inverse problems. The main bottleneck of this method is the choice of regularization parameters which differs for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Samim Ahmadi , Jan Christian Hauffen , Linh Kästner , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire , Mathias Ziegler