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Sparse training has received an upsurging interest in machine learning due to its tantalizing saving potential for the entire training process as well as inference. Dynamic sparse training (DST), as a leading sparse training approach, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Lu Yin , Gen Li , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Tianjin Huang , Zhangyang Wang , Vlado Menkovski , Xiaolong Ma , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Shiwei Liu

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) is a rapidly evolving area of research that seeks to optimize the sparse initialization of a neural network by adapting its topology during training. It has been shown that under specific conditions, DST is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Aleksandra I. Nowak , Bram Grooten , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Jacek Tabor

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods train neural networks by maintaining sparsity while dynamically adapting the network topology. Despite the promise of reduced computation, DST methods converge significantly slower than dense training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mohammed Adnan , Rohan Jain , Tom Jacobs , Ekansh Sharma , Rahul G. Krishnan , Rebekka Burkholz , Yani Ioannou

In classification problems with large output spaces (up to millions of labels), the last layer can require an enormous amount of memory. Using sparse connectivity would drastically reduce the memory requirements, but as we show below, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Erik Schultheis , Rohit Babbar

Multi-label learning problems have manifested themselves in various machine learning applications. The key to successful multi-label learning algorithms lies in the exploration of inter-label correlations, which usually incur great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Zongting Lyu , Yan Yan , Fei Wu

Structured sparsity accelerates training and inference on modern GPUs, yet it still trails unstructured dynamic sparse training (DST) in accuracy. The shortfall stems from a loss of expressivity: whereas a dense layer can realize every…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Abhishek Tyagi , Arjun Iyer , Liam Young , William H Renninger , Christopher Kanan , Yuhao Zhu

Recommender systems often rely on large embedding tables that map users and items to dense vectors of uniform size, leading to substantial memory consumption and inefficiencies. This is particularly problematic in memory-constrained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Yunke Qu , Liang Qu , Tong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Jianxin Li , Hongzhi Yin

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

Scaling neural networks has driven breakthrough advances in machine learning, yet this paradigm fails in deep reinforcement learning (DRL), where larger models often degrade performance due to unique optimization pathologies such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Guozheng Ma , Lu Li , Zilin Wang , Haoyu Wang , Shengchao Hu , Leszek Rutkowski , Dacheng Tao

Recent advances in Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) have pushed the frontier of sparse neural network training in structured and unstructured contexts, matching dense-model performance while drastically reducing parameter counts to facilitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Abhishek Tyagi , Arjun Iyer , William H Renninger , Christopher Kanan , Yuhao Zhu

Deep neural networks achieve remarkable performances on a wide range of tasks with the aid of large-scale labeled datasets. Yet these datasets are time-consuming and labor-exhaustive to obtain on realistic tasks. To mitigate the requirement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Baixu Chen , Junguang Jiang , Ximei Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) methods achieve state-of-the-art results in sparse neural network training, matching the generalization of dense models while enabling sparse training and inference. Although the resulting models are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mike Lasby , Anna Golubeva , Utku Evci , Mihai Nica , Yani Ioannou

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality videos. However, the quadratic complexity of 3D full attention remains a bottleneck in scaling DiT training, especially with high-definition, lengthy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xin Tan , Yuetao Chen , Yimin Jiang , Xing Chen , Kun Yan , Nan Duan , Yibo Zhu , Daxin Jiang , Hong Xu

Obtaining versions of deep neural networks that are both highly-accurate and highly-sparse is one of the main challenges in the area of model compression, and several high-performance pruning techniques have been investigated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Recently, a new trend of exploring sparsity for accelerating neural network training has emerged, embracing the paradigm of training on the edge. This paper proposes a novel Memory-Economic Sparse Training (MEST) framework targeting for…

Large-scale machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in critical domains like education, lending, recruitment, healthcare, criminal justice, etc. However, the training, deployment, and utilization of these models demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ding Zhu , Zhiqun Zuo , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful type of generative models that have achieved state-of-the-art results in various image synthesis tasks and have shown potential in other domains, such as natural language processing and temporal data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Inês Cardoso Oliveira , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Luis A. Leiva

Continual learning (CL) refers to the ability of an intelligent system to sequentially acquire and retain knowledge from a stream of data with as little computational overhead as possible. To this end; regularization, replay, architecture,…

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