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Since numbers in the computer are represented with a fixed number of bits, loss of accuracy during calculation is unavoidable. At high precision where more bits (e.g. 64) are allocated to each number, round-off errors are typically small.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Yizhou Chen , Xiaoyun Gong , Xiang Ji

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is an efficient and robust method to characterize gate errors in quantum circuits. Averaging over random sequences of gates leads to estimates of gate errors in terms of the average fidelity. These estimates are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Jonas Helsen , Joel J. Wallman , Steven T. Flammia , Stephanie Wehner

The Tensor-Train (TT) format is a highly compact low-rank representation for high-dimensional tensors. TT is particularly useful when representing approximations to the solutions of certain types of parametrized partial differential…

Face super-resolution (FSR) is a critical technique for enhancing low-resolution facial images and has significant implications for face-related tasks. However, existing FSR methods are limited by fixed up-sampling scales and sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yi Ting Tsai , Yu Wei Chen , Hong-Han Shuai , Ching-Chun Huang

Given the importance of floating-point~(FP) performance in numerous domains, several new variants of FP and its alternatives have been proposed (e.g., Bfloat16, TensorFloat32, and Posits). These representations do not have correctly rounded…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Jay P. Lim , Mridul Aanjaneya , John Gustafson , Santosh Nagarakatte

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

Although recent quantized Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet, have paved the way for significant reduction in memory usage during deployment with binary or ternary weights, training these models still demands substantial memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Kaiyan Zhao , Tsuguchika Tabaru , Kenichi Kobayashi , Takumi Honda , Masafumi Yamazaki , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

The quality of numerical computations can be measured through their forward error, for which finding good error bounds is challenging in general. For several algorithms and using stochastic rounding (SR), probabilistic analysis has been…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-29 Pablo de Oliveira Castro , El-Mehdi El Arar , Eric Petit , Devan Sohier

Motivated by emerging applications in machine learning, we consider an optimization problem in a general form where the gradient of the objective function is available through a biased stochastic oracle. We assume a bias-control parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yin Liu , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

Randomized smoothing is sound when using infinite precision. However, we show that randomized smoothing is no longer sound for limited floating-point precision. We present a simple example where randomized smoothing certifies a radius of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Václav Voráček , Matthias Hein

In recent years, randomized algorithms have established themselves as fundamental tools in computational linear algebra, with applications in scientific computing, machine learning, and quantum information science. Many randomized matrix…

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We propose a method to efficiently compute the forward stochastic reach (FSR) set and its probability measure for nonlinear systems with an affine disturbance input, that is stochastic and bounded. This method is applicable to systems with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Baisravan HomChaudhuri , Abraham P. Vinod , Meeko M. K. Oishi

The Fast Reciprocal Square Root Algorithm is a well-established approximation technique consisting of two stages: first, a coarse approximation is obtained by manipulating the bit pattern of the floating point argument using integer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Mike Day

Reference [11] investigated the almost sure weak convergence of block-coordinate fixed point algorithms and discussed their applications to nonlinear analysis and optimization. This algorithmic framework features random sweeping rules to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

While nowadays most gradient-based optimization methods focus on exploring the high-dimensional geometric features, the random error accumulated in a stochastic version of any algorithm implementation has not been stressed yet. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Tong Yang , Long Sha , Pengyu Hong

Machine learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings are highly susceptible to the influence of even a small fraction of structured outliers, making robust optimization techniques essential. In particular, within the…

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We reduce the memory footprint of popular large-scale online learning methods by projecting our weight vector onto a coarse discrete set using randomized rounding. Compared to standard 32-bit float encodings, this reduces RAM usage by more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Daniel Golovin , D. Sculley , H. Brendan McMahan , Michael Young

Deep learning models are dominating almost all artificial intelligence tasks such as vision, text, and speech processing. Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is the main tool for training such models, where the computations are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Matteo Cacciola , Antonio Frangioni , Masoud Asgharian , Alireza Ghaffari , Vahid Partovi Nia

We derive a stochastic gradient algorithm for semidefinite optimization using randomization techniques. The algorithm uses subsampling to reduce the computational cost of each iteration and the subsampling ratio explicitly controls…

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Compression has emerged as one of the essential deep learning research topics, especially for the edge devices that have limited computation power and storage capacity. Among the main compression techniques, low-rank compression via matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Moonjung Eo , Suhyun Kang , Wonjong Rhee