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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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Changhong Li , Biswajit Basu , Shreejith Shanker

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a popular solution for adapting pre-trained Vision Transformer (ViT) models to downstream applications by updating only a small subset of parameters. While current PEFT methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ting Liu , Xuyang Liu , Liangtao Shi , Zunnan Xu , Yue Hu , Siteng Huang , Yi Xin , Bineng Zhong , Donglin Wang

It is well known that direct training of deep neural networks will generally lead to poor results. A major progress in recent years is the invention of various pretraining methods to initialize network parameters and it was shown that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jun Li , Wei Luo , Jian Yang , Xiaotong Yuan

Deep neural networks can be trained in reciprocal space, by acting on the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of suitable transfer operators in direct space. Adjusting the eigenvalues, while freezing the eigenvectors, yields a substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Lorenzo Chicchi , Lorenzo Giambagli , Lorenzo Buffoni , Timoteo Carletti , Marco Ciavarella , Duccio Fanelli

Distributed training is the de facto standard to scale up the training of deep learning models with multiple GPUs. Its performance bottleneck lies in communications for gradient synchronization. Although high tensor sparsity is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhuang Wang , Zhaozhuo Xu , Jingyi Xi , Yuke Wang , Anshumali Shrivastava , T. S. Eugene Ng

We propose a new method for detecting changes in Markov network structure between two sets of samples. Instead of naively fitting two Markov network models separately to the two data sets and figuring out their difference, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-03 Song Liu , John A. Quinn , Michael U. Gutmann , Taiji Suzuki , Masashi Sugiyama

Weight pruning is among the most popular approaches for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. Recent work suggests that in a randomly initialized deep neural network, there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vinay Kumar Verma , Nikhil Mehta , Shijing Si , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

We propose a permutation-invariant neural architecture for indoor localization using RSSI scans from Wi-Fi access points. Each scan is modeled as an unordered set of (BSSID, RSSI) pairs, where BSSIDs are mapped to learned embeddings and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aris J. Aristorenas

This paper addresses the topic of sparsifying deep neural networks (DNN's). While DNN's are powerful models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on a large number of tasks, the large number of model parameters poses serious storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Igor Fedorov , Bhaskar D. Rao

Over-parameterization of deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown high prediction accuracy for many applications. Although effective, the large number of parameters hinders its popularity on resource-limited devices and has an outsize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoyi Huang , Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Hongwu Peng , Yue Sun , Mimi Xie , Caiwen Ding

Training a sparse neural network from scratch requires optimizing connections at the same time as the weights themselves. Typically, the weights are redistributed after a predefined number of weight updates, removing a fraction of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Mathias Parger , Alexander Ertl , Paul Eibensteiner , Joerg H. Mueller , Martin Winter , Markus Steinberger

Deep neural networks employ specialized architectures for vision, sequential and language tasks, yet this proliferation obscures their underlying commonalities. We introduce a unified matrix-order framework that casts convolutional,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuzhou Zhu

Sparse neural networks are a key factor in developing resource-efficient machine learning applications. We propose the novel and powerful sparse learning method Adaptive Regularized Training (ART) to compress dense into sparse networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Patrick Glandorf , Timo Kaiser , Bodo Rosenhahn

Large language models (LLMs) deliver strong performance but are difficult to deploy due to high memory and compute costs. While pruning reduces these demands, most methods ignore activation sparsity observed at runtime. We reinterpret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ruokai Yin , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Priyadarshini Panda

The excessive computational requirements of modern artificial neural networks (ANNs) are posing limitations on the machines that can run them. Sparsification of ANNs is often motivated by time, memory and energy savings only during model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mike Heddes , Narayan Srinivasa , Tony Givargis , Alexandru Nicolau

Advances in leveraging Gaussian processes (GP) have enabled learning and inferring dynamic grid behavior from scarce PMU measurements. However, real measurements can be corrupted by various random and targeted threats, leading to inaccurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tina Gao , Shimiao Li , Lawrence Pileggi

Pruning large neural networks to create high-quality, independently trainable sparse masks, which can maintain similar performance to their dense counterparts, is very desirable due to the reduced space and time complexity. As research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Ajay Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

Sparse data structures are commonly used in neural networks to reduce the memory footprint. These data structures are compact but cause irregularities such as random memory accesses, which prevent efficient use of the memory hierarchy. GPUs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hossein Albakri , Kazem Cheshmi

Finding neural network weights that generalize well from small datasets is difficult. A promising approach is to learn a weight initialization such that a small number of weight changes results in low generalization error. We show that this…

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on end-user devices is gaining importance due to benefits in responsiveness, privacy, and operational cost. Yet the limited memory and compute capability of mobile and desktop GPUs make efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Rongxiang Wang , Kangyuan Shu , Felix Xiaozhu Lin