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Neural network (NN) designed for challenging machine learning tasks is in general a highly nonlinear mapping that contains massive variational parameters. High complexity of NN, if unbounded or unconstrained, might unpredictably cause…

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Finding feasible points for which the proof succeeds is a critical issue in safe Branch and Bound algorithms which handle continuous problems. In this paper, we introduce a new strategy to compute very accurate approximations of feasible…

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While post-training model compression can greatly reduce the inference cost of a deep neural network, uncompressed training still consumes a huge amount of hardware resources, run-time and energy. It is highly desirable to directly train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Cole Hawkins , Xing Liu , Zheng Zhang

Recent methods have significantly reduced the performance degradation of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), but guaranteeing the effective and efficient training of BNNs is an unsolved problem. The main reason is that the estimated gradients…

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Simulation of quantum systems is challenging due to the exponential size of the state space. Tensor networks provide a systematically improvable approximation for quantum states. 2D tensor networks such as Projected Entangled Pair States…

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Training neural networks is a challenging non-convex optimization problem, and backpropagation or gradient descent can get stuck in spurious local optima. We propose a novel algorithm based on tensor decomposition for guaranteed training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

This book serves as an introductory yet thorough guide to tensor networks and their applications in quantum computation and quantum information, designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level readers. In Part I, foundational topics…

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The computational cost of counting the number of solutions satisfying a Boolean formula, which is a problem instance of #SAT, has proven subtle to quantify. Even when finding individual satisfying solutions is computationally easy (e.g.…

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Tensor network methods are a class of numerical tools and algorithms to study many-body quantum systems in and out of equilibrium, based on tailored variational wave functions. They have found significant applications in simulating lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-10 Giuseppe Magnifico , Giovanni Cataldi , Marco Rigobello , Peter Majcen , Daniel Jaschke , Pietro Silvi , Simone Montangero

Variational neural network models have achieved remarkable success in solving ground-state problems of quantum many-body systems. However, addressing classical and quantum spin glasses remains challenging, as disorder and energy frustration…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied to solve real-world regression problems. However, selecting optimal network structures remains a significant challenge. This study addresses this issue by linking neuron selection in DNNs…

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In tensor-network analysis of quantum many-body systems, it is of crucial importance to employ a tensor network with a spatial structure suitable for representing the state of interest. In the previous work [Hikihara et al., Phys. Rev.…

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Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are used to model a variety of dynamical systems in science and engineering. Recent advances in deep learning have enabled us to solve them in a higher dimension by addressing the curse of…

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We present PFNN, a penalty-free neural network method, to efficiently solve a class of second-order boundary-value problems on complex geometries. To reduce the smoothness requirement, the original problem is reformulated to a weak form so…

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Quantum machine learning researchers often rely on incorporating Tensor Networks (TN) into Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and variational optimization. However, the standard optimization techniques used for training the contracted trainable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Debanjan Konar , Dheeraj Peddireddy , Vaneet Aggarwal , Bijaya K. Panigrahi

A branch-and-bound (BB) tree certifies a dual bound on the value of an integer program. In this work, we introduce the tree compression problem (TCP): Given a BB tree T that certifies a dual bound, can we obtain a smaller tree with the same…

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We contribute to the program of proving lower bounds on the size of branching programs solving the Tree Evaluation Problem introduced by Cook et. al. (2012). Proving a super-polynomial lower bound for the size of nondeterministic thrifty…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Balagopal Komarath , Jayalal Sarma M. N

Tensor decompositions play a crucial role in numerous applications related to multi-way data analysis. By employing a Bayesian framework with sparsity-inducing priors, Bayesian Tensor Ring (BTR) factorization offers probabilistic estimates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zerui Tao , Toshihisa Tanaka , Qibin Zhao

Recently, there has been much interest in finding globally optimal Bayesian network structures. These techniques were developed for generative scores and can not be directly extended to discriminative scores, as desired for classification.…

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