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Inspired by the robustness and efficiency of sparse representation in sparse coding based image restoration models, we investigate the sparsity of neurons in deep networks. Our method structurally enforces sparsity constraints upon hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yuchen Fan , Jiahui Yu , Yiqun Mei , Yulun Zhang , Yun Fu , Ding Liu , Thomas S. Huang

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown surprising performance in task-specific workloads as well as general tasks with the given prompts. However, to achieve unprecedented performance, recent LLMs use billions to trillions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Geonhwa Jeong , Po-An Tsai , Stephen W. Keckler , Tushar Krishna

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become essential for eliciting complex reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the substantial memory overhead of storing Key-Value (KV) caches during long-horizon rollouts acts as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sijia Luo , Xiaokang Zhang , Yuxuan Hu , Bohan Zhang , Ke Wang , Jinbo Su , Mengshu Sun , Lei Liang , Jing Zhang

Learned sparse retrieval (LSR) is a family of neural methods that encode queries and documents into sparse lexical vectors that can be indexed and retrieved efficiently with an inverted index. We explore the application of LSR to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Thong Nguyen , Mariya Hendriksen , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

While Large language models (LLMs) have advanced natural language processing tasks, their growing computational and memory demands make deployment on resource-constrained devices like mobile phones increasingly challenging. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yiping Wang , Hanxian Huang , Yifang Chen , Jishen Zhao , Simon Shaolei Du , Yuandong Tian

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has become the standard for state-of-the-art large language models, owing to its computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, sparsity through finer expert granularity is becoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jongseok Park , Sunga Kim , Zhenyu Gu , Ion Stoica , Alvin Cheung

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the state-of-the-art of many different natural language processing tasks. Although serving LLMs is computationally and memory demanding, the rise of Small Language Models (SLMs) offers new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Pol G. Recasens , Yue Zhu , Chen Wang , Eun Kyung Lee , Olivier Tardieu , Alaa Youssef , Jordi Torres , Josep Ll. Berral

Pervasive polysemanticity in large language models (LLMs) undermines discrete neuron-concept attribution, posing a significant challenge for model interpretation and control. We systematically analyze both encoder and decoder based LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Muhammad Umair Haider , Hammad Rizwan , Hassan Sajjad , Peizhong Ju , A. B. Siddique

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). LLMs require an extreme amount of parameters to attain high performance. As models grow into the trillion-parameter range,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhyar Rzgar K Rostam , Sándor Szénási , Gábor Kertész

This article proposes a sparse computation-based method for optimizing neural networks for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks. This method combines two ideas: neural network pruning and taking into account input data correlations; it makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Dmitry Ivanov , Mikhail Kiselev , Denis Larionov

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a key post-pretraining step for aligning large language models (LLMs) with complex tasks and human preferences. While it is often assumed that RL fine-tuning requires updating most of a model's parameters, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Andrii Balashov

Recently, very large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional performance on several English NLP tasks with just in-context learning (ICL), but their utility in other languages is still underexplored. We investigate their effectiveness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Vipul Rathore , Aniruddha Deb , Ankish Chandresh , Parag Singla , Mausam

Sparse annotation in remote sensing object detection poses significant challenges due to dense object distributions and category imbalances. Although existing Dense Pseudo-Label methods have demonstrated substantial potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wei Liao , Chunyan Xu , Chenxu Wang , Zhen Cui

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in handling spoken inputs for high-resource languages, reaching state-of-the-art performance in various tasks. However, their applicability is still less explored in low-resource…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Seraphina Fong , Marco Matassoni , Alessio Brutti

We propose a new algorithm to learn the network of the interactions of pairwise Ising models. The algorithm is based on the pseudo-likelihood method (PLM), that has already been proven to efficiently solve the problem in a large variety of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-19 Silvio Franz , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Jacopo Rocchi

Recently, inspired by the concept of sparsity, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have gained increasing popularity for scaling model size while keeping the number of activated parameters constant. In this study, we thoroughly investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaoye Qu , Daize Dong , Xuyang Hu , Tong Zhu , Weigao Sun , Yu Cheng

In this paper, we rethink sparse lexical representations for image retrieval. By utilizing multi-modal large language models (M-LLMs) that support visual prompting, we can extract image features and convert them into textual data, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kengo Nakata , Daisuke Miyashita , Youyang Ng , Yasuto Hoshi , Jun Deguchi

In order to improve the performance of Least Mean Square (LMS) based system identification of sparse systems, a new adaptive algorithm is proposed which utilizes the sparsity property of such systems. A general approximating approach on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Yuantao Gu , Jian Jin , Shunliang Mei

Sparse attention offers a promising strategy to extend long-context capabilities in Transformer LLMs, yet its efficiency-accuracy trade-offs remain unclear due to the lack of comprehensive evaluation. We address this gap with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Piotr Nawrot , Robert Li , Renjie Huang , Sebastian Ruder , Kelly Marchisio , Edoardo M. Ponti

Adapter Tuning, which freezes the pretrained language models (PLMs) and only fine-tunes a few extra modules, becomes an appealing efficient alternative to the full model fine-tuning. Although computationally efficient, the recent Adapters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Shwai He , Liang Ding , Daize Dong , Miao Zhang , Dacheng Tao