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Model compression is an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power and memory-constrained resources. However, existing model-compression methods often rely on human expertise and focus on parameters' local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Sixing Yu , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

Understanding deep neural networks (DNNs) is a key challenge in the theory of machine learning, with potential applications to the many fields where DNNs have been successfully used. This article presents a scaling limit for a DNN being…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Dyego Araújo , Roberto I. Oliveira , Daniel Yukimura

This paper proposes a new learning paradigm called filter grafting, which aims to improve the representation capability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The motivation is that DNNs have unimportant (invalid) filters (e.g., l1 norm close to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Fanxu Meng , Hao Cheng , Ke Li , Zhixin Xu , Rongrong Ji , Xing Sun , Gaungming Lu

Data-parallel distributed training of deep neural networks (DNN) has gained very widespread adoption, but can still experience communication bottlenecks. To address this issue, entire families of compression mechanisms have been developed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Mohammadreza Alimohammadi , Ilia Markov , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

Conventional deep reinforcement learning methods are sample-inefficient and usually require a large number of training trials before convergence. Since such methods operate on an unconstrained action set, they can lead to useless actions. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Daiki Kimura , Subhajit Chaudhury , Akifumi Wachi , Ryosuke Kohita , Asim Munawar , Michiaki Tatsubori , Alexander Gray

We introduce a novel training principle for probabilistic models that is an alternative to maximum likelihood. The proposed Generative Stochastic Networks (GSN) framework is based on learning the transition operator of a Markov chain whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Yoshua Bengio , Éric Thibodeau-Laufer , Guillaume Alain , Jason Yosinski

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful deep learning models to generate node embeddings on graphs. When applying deep GNNs on large graphs, it is still challenging to perform training in an efficient and scalable way. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Hanqing Zeng , Hongkuan Zhou , Ajitesh Srivastava , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

This work presents a two-stage adaptive framework for progressively developing deep neural network (DNN) architectures that generalize well for a given training data set. In the first stage, a layerwise training approach is adopted where a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 C G Krishnanunni , Tan Bui-Thanh

Training a neural network (NN) typically relies on some type of curve-following method, such as gradient descent (GD) (and stochastic gradient descent (SGD)), ADADELTA, ADAM or limited memory algorithms. Convergence for these algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Michael A Kouritzin , Stephen Styles , Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

This paper presents a theoretical analysis and practical evaluation of the main bottlenecks towards a scalable distributed solution for the training of Deep Neuronal Networks (DNNs). The presented results show, that the current state of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Janis Keuper , Franz-Josef Pfreundt

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art and sometimes super-human performance across various domains. However, when learning tasks sequentially, the networks easily forget the knowledge of previous tasks, known as "catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Jinguo Zhu , Shijie Yu , Wanli Ouyang

The escalating complexity of network threats and the inherent class imbalance in traffic data present formidable challenges for modern Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in modeling topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tianxiang Xu , Zhichao Wen , Xinyu Zhao , Qi Hu , Yan Li , Chang Liu

Distributed training of GNNs enables learning on massive graphs (e.g., social and e-commerce networks) that exceed the storage and computational capacity of a single machine. To reach performance comparable to centralized training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jiong Zhu , Aishwarya Reganti , Edward Huang , Charles Dickens , Nikhil Rao , Karthik Subbian , Danai Koutra

An important challenge in machine learning is to predict the initial conditions under which a given neural network will be trainable. We present a method for predicting the trainable regime in parameter space for deep feedforward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yanick Thurn , Ro Jefferson , Johanna Erdmenger

Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Paul Agbaje , Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Pranali Khose , Ebelechukwu Nwafor , Habeeb Olufowobi

In this work we propose Pathfinder Discovery Networks (PDNs), a method for jointly learning a message passing graph over a multiplex network with a downstream semi-supervised model. PDNs inductively learn an aggregated weight for each edge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Benedek Rozemberczki , Peter Englert , Amol Kapoor , Martin Blais , Bryan Perozzi

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are usually trained sequentially from one layer to another, which causes forward, backward and update locking's problems, leading to poor performance in terms of training time. The existing parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Huw Lloyd , Xin Zhang , Darren Dancey , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for semi-supervised node classification on graphs. Nevertheless, the challenge of how to effectively learn GNNs with very few labels is still under-explored. As one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yayong Li , Jie Yin , Ling Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited prominent performance in learning graph-structured data. Considering node classification task, based on the i.i.d assumption among node labels, the traditional supervised learning simply sums up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Rui Miao , Kaixiong Zhou , Yili Wang , Ninghao Liu , Ying Wang , Xin Wang