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In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-15 Francesco Paolo Casale , Jonathan Gordon , Nicolo Fusi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to facilitate the design of deep networks for new tasks. Existing techniques rely on two stages: searching over the architecture space and validating the best architecture. NAS algorithms are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Kaicheng Yu , Christian Sciuto , Martin Jaggi , Claudiu Musat , Mathieu Salzmann

Many regression and classification procedures fit a parameterized function $f(x;w)$ of predictor variables $x$ to data $\{x_{i},y_{i}\}_1^N$ based on some loss criterion $L(y,f)$. Often, regularization is applied to improve accuracy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Gilmer Valdes , Wilmer Arbelo , Yannet Interian , Jerome H. Friedman

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Learning-based low rank approximation algorithms can significantly improve the performance of randomized low rank approximation with sketch matrix. With the learned value and fixed non-zero positions for sketch matrices from learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Tiejin Chen , Yicheng Tao

Sparsifying neural networks often suffers from seemingly inevitable performance degradation, and it remains challenging to restore the original performance despite much recent progress. Motivated by recent studies in robust optimization, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dongyeop Lee , Kwanhee Lee , Jinseok Chung , Namhoon Lee

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

In principle, sparse neural networks should be significantly more efficient than traditional dense networks. Neurons in the brain exhibit two types of sparsity; they are sparsely interconnected and sparsely active. These two types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Kevin Lee Hunter , Lawrence Spracklen , Subutai Ahmad

The analysis of neural network training beyond their linearization regime remains an outstanding open question, even in the simplest setup of a single hidden-layer. The limit of infinitely wide networks provides an appealing route forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Jaume de Dios , Joan Bruna

That neural networks may be pruned to high sparsities and retain high accuracy is well established. Recent research efforts focus on pruning immediately after initialization so as to allow the computational savings afforded by sparsity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Ilan Price , Jared Tanner

Neural architecture search enables automation of architecture design. Despite its success, it is computationally costly and does not provide an insight on how to design a desirable architecture. Here we propose a new way of searching neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhenhan Huang , Chunheng Jiang , Pin-Yu Chen , Jianxi Gao

Sparse matrix ordering is a vital optimization technique often employed for solving large-scale sparse matrices. Its goal is to minimize the matrix bandwidth by reorganizing its rows and columns, thus enhancing efficiency. Conventional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tao Tang , Youfu Jiang , Yingbo Cui , Jianbin Fang , Peng Zhang , Lin Peng , Chun Huang

We demonstrate the possibility of what we call sparse learning: accelerated training of deep neural networks that maintain sparse weights throughout training while achieving dense performance levels. We accomplish this by developing sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Tim Dettmers , Luke Zettlemoyer

Despite the remarkable success of pre-trained language models (PLMs), they still face two challenges: First, large-scale PLMs are inefficient in terms of memory footprint and computation. Second, on the downstream tasks, PLMs tend to rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yuanxin Liu , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Jiangnan Li , Peng Fu , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

The design of compact deep neural networks is a crucial task to enable widespread adoption of deep neural networks in the real-world, particularly for edge and mobile scenarios. Due to the time-consuming and challenging nature of manually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Andrew Hryniowski , Francis Li , Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 András Lőrincz , Zsolt Palotai , Gábor Szirtes

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have received voluminous attention predominantly due to growing computational and memory footprints of consistently exploding parameter count in large-scale models. Similar to their dense counterparts, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xuxi Chen , Tianjin Huang , Ajay Jaiswal , Zhangyang Wang

Modern Machine learning techniques take advantage of the exponentially rising calculation power in new generation processor units. Thus, the number of parameters which are trained to resolve complex tasks was highly increased over the last…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Richard C. Gerum , André Erpenbeck , Patrick Krauss , Achim Schilling

Sparse coding is a basic task in many fields including signal processing, neuroscience and machine learning where the goal is to learn a basis that enables a sparse representation of a given set of data, if one exists. Its standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma , Ankur Moitra

Deep learning has powered recent successes of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the deep neural network, as the basic model of deep learning, has suffered from issues such as local traps and miscalibration. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Yan Sun , Wenjun Xiong , Faming Liang