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The ever increasing sizes of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond hundreds of billions of parameters have generated enormous pressure on the manufacturers of dedicated hardware accelerators and made the innovative design of the latter one of…

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As the deep neural networks are being applied to complex tasks, the size of the networks and architecture increases and their topology becomes more complicated too. At the same time, training becomes slow and at some instances inefficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Massimiliano Esposito , Nader Ganaba

Many Machine Learning algorithms are formulated as regularized optimization problems, but their performance hinges on a regularization parameter that needs to be calibrated to each application at hand. In this paper, we propose a general…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Mike Laszkiewicz , Asja Fischer , Johannes Lederer

Graph pre-training has been concentrated on graph-level tasks involving small graphs (e.g., molecular graphs) or learning node representations on a fixed graph. Extending graph pre-trained models to web-scale graphs with billions of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yufei He , Zhenyu Hou , Yukuo Cen , Jun Hu , Feng He , Xu Cheng , Jie Tang , Bryan Hooi

Training neural networks is an optimization problem, and finding a decent set of parameters through gradient descent can be a difficult task. A host of techniques has been developed to aid this process before and during the training phase.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Divya Gaur , Joachim Folz , Andreas Dengel

We propose a generalization of transformer neural network architecture for arbitrary graphs. The original transformer was designed for Natural Language Processing (NLP), which operates on fully connected graphs representing all connections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Xavier Bresson

In the paper we show that there is an analogy between the operations occurring in a layer of a transformer (projections and layer normalizations, disregarding the feedforward neural network) and a step in the power method. Coherently with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chenglong Li , Claudio Altafini

The standard normalization method for neural network (NN) models used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is layer normalization (LN). This is different than batch normalization (BN), which is widely-adopted in Computer Vision. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sheng Shen , Zhewei Yao , Amir Gholami , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer

We introduce a new paradigm for geometry denoising using prior knowledge about the surface normal vector. This prior knowledge comes in the form of a set of preferred normal vectors, which we refer to as label vectors. A segmentation…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on challenging vision tasks, but their deployment on edge devices is severely hindered by the computational complexity and global reduction bottleneck imposed by layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kieran Carrigg , Sigur de Vries , Amirhossein Sadough , Marcel van Gerven

We introduce a new normalization technique that exhibits the fast convergence properties of batch normalization using a transformation of layer weights instead of layer outputs. The proposed technique keeps the contribution of positive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Aaron Defazio , Léon Bottou

Recent studies show that transformer-based architectures emulate gradient descent during a forward pass, contributing to in-context learning capabilities - an ability where the model adapts to new tasks based on a sequence of prompt…

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Many application domains, spanning from computational photography to medical imaging, require recovery of high-fidelity images from noisy, incomplete or partial/compressed measurements. State of the art methods for solving these inverse…

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We introduce the Normalized Matching Transformer (NMT), a deep learning approach for efficient and accurate sparse semantic keypoint matching between image pairs. NMT consists of a strong visual backbone, geometric feature refinement via…

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Theoretical results from discrete geometry suggest that normed spaces can abstractly embed finite metric spaces with surprisingly low theoretical bounds on distortion in low dimensions. In this paper, inspired by this theoretical insight,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Diaaeldin Taha , Wei Zhao , J. Maxwell Riestenberg , Michael Strube

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

Recently, DeepNorm scales Transformers into extremely deep (i.e., 1000 layers) and reveals the promising potential of deep scaling. To stabilize the training of deep models, DeepNorm (Wang et al., 2022) attempts to constrain the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yijin Liu , Xianfeng Zeng , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

We propose Dual PatchNorm: two Layer Normalization layers (LayerNorms), before and after the patch embedding layer in Vision Transformers. We demonstrate that Dual PatchNorm outperforms the result of exhaustive search for alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Manoj Kumar , Mostafa Dehghani , Neil Houlsby

Due to its significance as a subroutine, in this work, we consider the coherent version of the quantum phase estimation problem, where given an arbitrary input state and black-box access to unitaries $U$ and controlled-$U$, the goal is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Dhrumil Patel , Shi Jie Samuel Tan , Yigit Subasi , Andrew T. Sornborger

Scalability of graph neural networks remains one of the major challenges in graph machine learning. Since the representation of a node is computed by recursively aggregating and transforming representation vectors of its neighboring nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zengfeng Huang , Shengzhong Zhang , Chong Xi , Tang Liu , Min Zhou