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Training wide neural networks on sensitive data in untrusted cloud environments requires simultaneously achieving computational efficiency and rigorous privacy guarantees. Sparsification techniques, essential for scalable training of wide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zifan Qu , Vasileios P. Kemerlis , Giuseppe Ateniese , Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos

Large language models have high compute, latency, and memory requirements. While specialized accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs typically run these workloads, CPUs are more widely available and consume less energy. Accelerating LLMs with…

The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…

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Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel across scientific computing and machine learning. While prior work accelerates SpMM using Tensor Cores, no existing sparse kernel exploits the asynchronous features of…

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FPGAs have been shown to be a promising platform for deploying Quantised Neural Networks (QNNs) with high-speed, low-latency, and energy-efficient inference. However, the complexity of modern deep-learning models limits the performance on…

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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

Achieving high efficiency with numerical kernels for sparse matrices is of utmost importance, since they are part of many simulation codes and tend to use most of the available compute time and resources. In addition, especially in large…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Tobias Scharpff , Klaus Iglberger , Georg Hager , Ulrich Ruede

Recently deep neural networks have received considerable attention due to their ability to extract and represent high-level abstractions in data sets. Deep neural networks such as fully-connected and convolutional neural networks have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Arash Ardakani , Carlo Condo , Warren J. Gross

This paper introduces Inferno, a software library built on top of PyTorch that is designed to meet distinctive challenges of using spiking neural networks (SNNs) for machine learning tasks. We describe the architecture of Inferno and key…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Marissa Dominijanni

Tabular data poses unique challenges for deep learning due to its heterogeneous feature types, lack of spatial structure, and often limited sample sizes. We propose TabNSA, a novel deep learning framework that integrates Native Sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ali Eslamian , Qiang Cheng

The size of deep neural networks has grown exponentially in recent years. Unfortunately, hardware devices have not kept pace with the rapidly increasing memory requirements. To cope with this, researchers have turned to techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Benoit Steiner , Mostafa Elhoushi , Jacob Kahn , James Hegarty

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) communicate via discrete spikes in time rather than continuous activations. Their event-driven nature offers advantages for temporal processing and energy efficiency on resource-constrained hardware, but…

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Modern time series analysis demands frameworks that are flexible, efficient, and extensible. However, many existing Python libraries exhibit limitations in modularity and in their native support for irregular, multi-source, or sparse data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhijin Wang , Senzhen Wu , Yue Hu , Xiufeng Liu

We extend an existing approach for efficient use of shared mapped memory across Chapel and C++ for graph data stored as 1-D arrays to sparse tensor data stored using a combination of 2-D and 1-D arrays. We describe the specific extensions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-18 S. Isaac Geronimo Anderson , Daniel M. Dunlavy

Transformer-based Language Models have become ubiquitous in Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to their impressive performance on various tasks. However, expensive training as well as inference remains a significant impediment to their…

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In recent years, Transformer-based language models have become the standard approach for natural language processing tasks. However, stringent throughput and latency requirements in industrial applications are limiting their adoption. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Haihao Shen , Hengyu Meng , Bo Dong , Zhe Wang , Ofir Zafrir , Yi Ding , Yu Luo , Hanwen Chang , Qun Gao , Ziheng Wang , Guy Boudoukh , Moshe Wasserblat

A low precision deep neural network training technique for producing sparse, ternary neural networks is presented. The technique incorporates hard- ware implementation costs during training to achieve significant model compression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Julian Faraone , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Michaela Blott , Philip H. W. Leong

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

We present NeuralMag, a flexible and high-performance open-source Python library for micromagnetic simulations. NeuralMag leverages modern machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch and JAX, to perform efficient tensor operations on…