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Learning algorithms that learn linear models often have high representation bias on real-world problems. In this paper, we show that this representation bias can be greatly reduced by discretization. Discretization is a common procedure in…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved significant advances in a wide range of applications. However, their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains a challenge due to the large number of layers and parameters, which result in…

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Mixed Precision Quantization (MPQ) has become an essential technique for optimizing neural network by determining the optimal bitwidth per layer. Existing MPQ methods, however, face a major hurdle: they require a computationally expensive…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) continue to make significant advances, solving tasks from image classification to translation or reinforcement learning. One aspect of the field receiving considerable attention is efficiently executing deep…

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The recent advances of hardware technology have made the intelligent analysis equipped at the front-end with deep learning more prevailing and practical. To better enable the intelligent sensing at the front-end, instead of compressing and…

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Medical image classification is a critical task in healthcare, enabling accurate and timely diagnosis. However, deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices presents significant challenges due to computational and…

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Reinforcement learning often requires extensive training data. Simulation-to-real transfer offers a promising approach to address this challenge in robotics. While differentiable simulators offer improved sample efficiency through exact…

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Gradient quantization is an emerging technique in reducing communication costs in distributed learning. Existing gradient quantization algorithms often rely on engineering heuristics or empirical observations, lacking a systematic approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Guangfeng Yan , Shao-Lun Huang , Tian Lan , Linqi Song

Quantization of deep neural networks is a promising approach that reduces the inference cost, making it feasible to run deep networks on resource-restricted devices. Inspired by existing methods, we propose a new framework to learn the…

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Gait recognition is a rapidly advancing vision technique for person identification from a distance. Prior studies predominantly employed relatively shallow networks to extract subtle gait features, achieving impressive successes in…

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While post-training quantization receives popularity mostly due to its evasion in accessing the original complete training dataset, its poor performance also stems from scarce images. To alleviate this limitation, in this paper, we leverage…

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Communication-constrained algorithms for decentralized learning and optimization rely on local updates coupled with the exchange of compressed signals. In this context, differential quantization is an effective technique to mitigate the…

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Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art accuracies in a wide range of computer vision, speech recognition, and machine translation tasks. However the limits of memory bandwidth and computational power constrain the range of…

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The large computing and memory cost of deep neural networks (DNNs) often precludes their use in resource-constrained devices. Quantizing the parameters and operations to lower bit-precision offers substantial memory and energy savings for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Clemens JS Schaefer , Siddharth Joshi , Shan Li , Raul Blazquez

Gait recognition is a unique biometric technique that can be performed at a long distance non-cooperatively and has broad applications in public safety and intelligent traffic systems. Previous gait works focus more on minimizing the…

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Deep learning as a means to inferencing has proliferated thanks to its versatility and ability to approach or exceed human-level accuracy. These computational models have seemingly insatiable appetites for computational resources not only…

Deep neural networks may perform poorly when training datasets are heavily class-imbalanced. Recently, two-stage methods decouple representation learning and classifier learning to improve performance. But there is still the vital issue of…

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Distributed training enables large-scale deep learning, but suffers from high communication overhead, especially as models and datasets grow. Gradient compression, particularly quantization, is a promising approach to mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jihao Xin , Marco Canini , Peter Richtárik , Samuel Horváth

In this paper, we consider decentralized optimization problems where agents have individual cost functions to minimize subject to subspace constraints that require the minimizers across the network to lie in low-dimensional subspaces. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Marco Carpentiero , Vincenzo Matta , Marc Antonini , Ali H. Sayed