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Their vulnerability to small, imperceptible attacks limits the adoption of deep learning models to real-world systems. Adversarial training has proven to be one of the most promising strategies against these attacks, at the expense of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Björn Nieth , Thomas Altstidl , Leo Schwinn , Björn Eskofier

Massive data is often considered essential for deep learning applications, but it also incurs significant computational and infrastructural costs. Therefore, dataset pruning (DP) has emerged as an effective way to improve data efficiency by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yihua Zhang , Yimeng Zhang , Aochuan Chen , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaowen Liu , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu

Large machine learning models trained on diverse data have recently seen unprecedented success. Federated learning enables training on private data that may otherwise be inaccessible, such as domain-specific datasets decentralized across…

The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it can be hardly used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Zhuoran Song , Ru Wang , Dongyu Ru , Hongru Huang , Zhenghao Peng , Jing Ke , Xiaoyao Liang , Li Jiang

We introduce dropout compaction, a novel method for training feed-forward neural networks which realizes the performance gains of training a large model with dropout regularization, yet extracts a compact neural network for run-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-25 Yotaro Kubo , George Tucker , Simon Wiesler

Overfitting is a major problem in training machine learning models, specifically deep neural networks. This problem may be caused by imbalanced datasets and initialization of the model parameters, which conforms the model too closely to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

The pretraining-fine-tuning paradigm has been the de facto strategy for transfer learning in modern language modeling. With the understanding that task adaptation in LMs is often a function of parameters shared across tasks, we argue that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mandar Sharma , Nikhil Muralidhar , Shengzhe Xu , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Naren Ramakrishnan

Continual learning aims to enable models to adapt to new datasets without losing performance on previously learned data, often assuming that prior data is no longer available. However, in many practical scenarios, both old and new data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eli Verwimp , Guy Hacohen , Tinne Tuytelaars

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

Power-law scaling indicates that large-scale training with uniform sampling is prohibitively slow. Active learning methods aim to increase data efficiency by prioritizing learning on the most relevant examples. Despite their appeal, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Talfan Evans , Shreya Pathak , Hamza Merzic , Jonathan Schwarz , Ryutaro Tanno , Olivier J. Henaff

The increasing complexity of modern deep neural network models and the expanding sizes of datasets necessitate the development of optimized and scalable training methods. In this white paper, we addressed the challenge of efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Raphael Ruschel , A. S. M. Iftekhar , B. S. Manjunath , Suya You

Due to lack of data, overfitting ubiquitously exists in real-world applications of deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose advanced dropout, a model-free methodology, to mitigate overfitting and improve the performance of DNNs. The advanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jiyang Xie , Zhanyu Ma , and Jianjun Lei , Guoqiang Zhang , Jing-Hao Xue , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jun Guo

Dropout is a widely used regularization technique which improves the generalization ability of a model by randomly dropping neurons. In light of this, we propose Dropout Prompt Learning, which aims for applying dropout to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Biao Chen , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Kunbin He , Yuchen Wang

While the availability of large datasets is perceived to be a key requirement for training deep neural networks, it is possible to train such models with relatively little data. However, compensating for the absence of large datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mohammad Motamedi , Nikolay Sakharnykh , Tim Kaldewey

Existing ML models are known to be highly over-parametrized, and use significantly more resources than required for a given task. Prior work has explored compressing models offline, such as by distilling knowledge from larger models into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Julian Knodt

In this work we explore the relevance of dropout for modern language models, particularly in the context of models on the scale of <100M parameters. We explore it's relevance firstly in the regime of improving the sample efficiency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Dylan Hillier , Leon Guertler , Bobby Cheng , Cheston Tan

Data-driven modeling can suffer from a constant demand for data, leading to reduced accuracy and impractical for engineering applications due to the high cost and scarcity of information. To address this challenge, we propose a progressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Teeratorn Kadeethum , Daniel O'Malley , Youngsoo Choi , Hari S. Viswanathan , Hongkyu Yoon

Distributed machine learning is critical for training deep learning models on large datasets with numerous parameters. Current research primarily focuses on leveraging additional hardware resources and powerful computing units to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Kuan-Wei Lu , Ding-Yong Hong , Pangfeng Liu , Jan-Jan Wu

A significant advance in accelerating neural network training has been the development of normalization methods, permitting the training of deep models both faster and with better accuracy. These advances come with practical challenges: for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jasmine Collins , Johannes Balle , Jonathon Shlens

The ever-growing size of training datasets enhances the generalization capability of modern machine learning models but also incurs exorbitant computational costs. Existing data pruning approaches aim to accelerate training by removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongyue Wu , Zilin Guo , Jialong Zuo , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao