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Machine learning force fields show great promise in enabling more accurate molecular dynamics simulations compared to manually derived ones. Much of the progress in recent years was driven by exploiting prior knowledge about physical…

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Quantization lowers memory usage, computational requirements, and latency by utilizing fewer bits to represent model weights and activations. In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of quantized neural networks, a…

Comparative analysis of adaptive immune repertoires at population scale is hampered by two practical bottlenecks: the near-quadratic cost of pairwise affinity evaluations and dataset imbalances that obscure clinically important minority…

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This paper presents a comprehensive cross-platform evaluation of reasoning capabilities in contemporary foundation models, establishing an infrastructure-agnostic benchmark across three computational paradigms: HPC supercomputing…

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We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

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In recent years, large language models have achieved great success due to their unprecedented size. However, training these models poses a challenge for most researchers as it requires a substantial number of GPUs. To reduce GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haichen Huang , Jiarui Fang , Hongxin Liu , Shenggui Li , Yang You

Manufacturers have been developing new graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes with large capacity, high bandwidth memory and very high bandwidth intra-node interconnects. This enables moving large amounts of data between GPUs on the same node…

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The transition from monolithic to distributed multi-chip quantum architectures has fundamentally altered the circuit compilation landscape, introducing challenges in managing temporal noise variations and minimizing expensive inter-chip…

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning have shown great promise in their ability to accelerate novel materials discovery. As researchers and domain scientists seek to unify and consolidate chemical knowledge, the case for models with…

Point cloud foundation models demonstrate strong generalization, yet adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging in low-data regimes. Full fine-tuning often leads to overfitting and significant drift from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sneha Paul , Zachary Patterson , Nizar Bouguila

Quantization techniques commonly reduce the inference costs of neural networks by restricting the precision of weights and activations. Recent studies show that also reducing the precision of the accumulator can further improve hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ian Colbert , Alessandro Pappalardo , Jakoba Petri-Koenig , Yaman Umuroglu

Training foundation models, such as GPT-3 and PaLM, can be extremely expensive, often involving tens of thousands of GPUs running continuously for months. These models are typically trained in specialized clusters featuring fast,…

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Representing and reasoning about 3D structures of macromolecules is emerging as a distinct challenge in machine learning. Here, we extend recent work on geometric vector perceptrons and apply equivariant graph neural networks to a wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Bowen Jing , Stephan Eismann , Pratham N. Soni , Ron O. Dror

Good weight initialization serves as an effective measure to reduce the training cost of a deep neural network (DNN) model. The choice of how to initialize parameters is challenging and may require manual tuning, which can be time-consuming…

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Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for physically consistent molecular simulations but suffer from high computational costs and memory bottlenecks, especially with high-order representations. While low-bit quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoyu Zhou , Ping Xue , Hao Zhang , Tianfan Fu

We study the challenging task of neural network quantization without end-to-end retraining, called Post-training Quantization (PTQ). PTQ usually requires a small subset of training data but produces less powerful quantized models than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yuhang Li , Ruihao Gong , Xu Tan , Yang Yang , Peng Hu , Qi Zhang , Fengwei Yu , Wei Wang , Shi Gu

The miniaturisation of neural processing units (NPUs) and other low-power accelerators has enabled their integration into microcontroller-scale wearable hardware, supporting near-real-time, offline, and privacy-preserving inference. Yet…

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Training large neural networks and merging task-specific models both exploit low-rank structure and require parameter importance estimation, yet these challenges have been pursued in isolation. Current workflows compute curvature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Alireza Moayedikia , Alicia Troncoso

Crystal structure optimization is fundamental to materials modeling but remains computationally expensive when performed with density-functional theory (DFT). Machine-learning (ML) approaches offer substantial acceleration, yet existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Ziduo Yang , Wei Zhuo , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoqing Liu , Lei Shen

Traditional recommender systems heavily rely on ID features, which often encounter challenges related to cold-start and generalization. Modeling pre-extracted content features can mitigate these issues, but is still a suboptimal solution…

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