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Current methods for compressing neural network weights, such as decomposition, pruning, quantization, and channel simulation, often overlook the inherent symmetries within these networks and thus waste bits on encoding redundant…

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We propose a lossy image compression system using the deep-learning autoencoder structure to participate in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2018. Our autoencoder uses the residual blocks with skip connections to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 David Alexandre , Chih-Peng Chang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Hsueh-Ming Hang

Although deep learning models are highly effective for various learning tasks, their high computational costs prohibit the deployment to scenarios where either memory or computational resources are limited. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Cong Leng , Hao Li , Shenghuo Zhu , Rong Jin

Ultrafast physical random bit generation at hundreds of Gb/s rates, with verified randomness, is a crucial ingredient in secure communication and have recently emerged using optics based physical systems. Here we examine the inverse problem…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Shira Sardi , Herut Uzan , Shiri Otmazgin , Yaara Aviad , Michael Rosenbluh , Ido Kanter

A new initialization method for hidden parameters in a neural network is proposed. Derived from the integral representation of the neural network, a nonparametric probability distribution of hidden parameters is introduced. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Sho Sonoda , Noboru Murata

Signed shifts are generalizations of the shift map in which, interpreted as a map from the unit interval to itself sending x to the fractional part of Nx, some slopes are allowed to be negative. Permutations realized by the relative order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Sergi Elizalde , Katherine Moore

We prove a characterization of the structural conditions on matrices of sign-rank 3 and unit disk graphs (UDGs) which permit constant-cost public-coin randomized communication protocols. Therefore, under these conditions, these graphs also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Nathaniel Harms , Viktor Zamaraev

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on compute-in-memory (CiM) accelerators offers significant energy savings and speed-up by reducing data movement during inference. However, the reliability of CiM-based systems is challenged by…

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Weight tying is widely used in compact language models to reduce parameters by sharing the token table between the input embedding and the output projection. However, parameter sharing alone does not guarantee a stable token interface:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

The literature on compressed sensing has focused almost entirely on settings where the signal is noiseless and the measurements are contaminated by noise. In practice, however, the signal itself is often subject to random noise prior to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Ery Arias-Castro , Yonina C. Eldar

We present a one-shot method for compressing large labeled graphs called Random Edge Coding. When paired with a parameter-free model based on P\'olya's Urn, the worst-case computational and memory complexities scale quasi-linearly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Daniel Severo , James Townsend , Ashish Khisti , Alireza Makhzani

This work analyzes singular-value spectra of weight matrices in pretrained transformer models to understand how information is stored at both ends of the spectrum. Using Random Matrix Theory (RMT) as a zero information hypothesis, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Max Staats , Matthias Thamm , Bernd Rosenow

Structures play a significant role in the field of signal processing. As a representative of structural data, low rank matrix along with its restricted isometry property (RIP) has been an important research topic in compressive signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xinyue Shen , Yuantao Gu

Template tasks have emerged as a clean testbed for asking whether transformers reason with abstract symbols rather than concrete token names. We study the fixed-label classification version of this problem, where train and test examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Wenjie Guan , Jelena Bradic

We study the trade-offs between storage/bandwidth and prediction accuracy of neural networks that are stored in noisy media. Conventionally, it is assumed that all parameters (e.g., weight and biases) of a trained neural network are stored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Minghai Qin , Chao Sun , Dejan Vucinic

Model compression has gained a lot of attention due to its ability to reduce hardware resource requirements significantly while maintaining accuracy of DNNs. Model compression is especially useful for memory-intensive recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Dongsoo Lee , Byeongwook Kim

Low-bit weight-only quantization significantly reduces the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs), but disproportionately affects certain examples. We analyze diverse 3-4 bit methods on LLMs ranging from 7B-70B in size and find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ting-Yun Chang , Muru Zhang , Jesse Thomason , Robin Jia

We demonstrate that, hidden within one-layer randomly weighted neural networks, there exist subnetworks that can achieve impressive performance, without ever modifying the weight initializations, on machine translation tasks. To find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sheng Shen , Zhewei Yao , Douwe Kiela , Kurt Keutzer , Michael W. Mahoney

With the deployment of neural networks on mobile devices and the necessity of transmitting neural networks over limited or expensive channels, the file size of the trained model was identified as bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Thorsten Laude , Yannick Richter , Jörn Ostermann

Supervised learning can be viewed as distilling relevant information from input data into feature representations. This process becomes difficult when supervision is noisy as the distilled information might not be relevant. In fact, recent…

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