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The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated impressive performance for data synthesis, and are now used in a wide range of computer vision tasks. In spite of this success, they gained a reputation for being difficult to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-07 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

Deep learning has triggered explosive growth in the demand for specialized hardware processors, thus motivating the development of scalable and reconfigurable computing substrates. Optical processors offer a fundamentally different…

Learned Differentiable Boolean Logic Networks (DBNs) already deliver efficient inference on resource-constrained hardware. We extend them with a trainable, differentiable interconnect whose parameter count remains constant as input width…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Fabian Kresse , Emily Yu , Christoph H. Lampert

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired machine learning models that build on dynamic neuronal models processing binary and sparse spiking signals in an event-driven, online, fashion. SNNs can be implemented on neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Hyeryung Jang , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Neuromorphic computing and, in particular, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have become an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for a broad range of signal processing applications, processing static and/or temporal inputs from…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Souvik Kundu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Peter A. Beerel

Agent-based Transformers have been widely adopted in recent reinforcement learning advances due to their demonstrated ability to solve complex tasks. However, the high computational complexity of Transformers often results in significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Mohammad Irfan Uddin , Nishad Tasnim , Md Omor Faruk , Zejian Zhou

Efficiently supporting long context length is crucial for Transformer models. The quadratic complexity of the self-attention computation plagues traditional Transformers. Sliding window-based static sparse attention mitigates the problem by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Dangi , Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving…

Large networks are becoming a widely used abstraction for studying complex systems in a broad set of disciplines, ranging from social network analysis to molecular biology and neuroscience. Despite an increasing need to analyze and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Jure Leskovec , Rok Sosic

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has gained huge popularity in replacing traditional network by offering flexible and dynamic network management. It has drawn significant attention of the researchers from both academia and industries.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Khalid Hasan , Xin-Wen Wu , Kamanashis Biswas , Khandakar Ahmed

Structured pruning is a commonly used convolutional neural network (CNN) compression approach. Pruning rate setting is a fundamental problem in structured pruning. Most existing works introduce too many additional learnable parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pucheng Zhai , Kailing Guo , Fang Liu , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

With deep learning's success, a limited number of popular deep nets have been widely adopted for various vision tasks. However, this usually results in unnecessarily high complexities and possibly many features of low task utility. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Qing Tian , Tal Arbel , James J. Clark

Large scale deep learning provides a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality of content recommendation systems by employing both wider and deeper models, but this comes at great infrastructural cost and carbon footprint in modern data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mao Ye , Dhruv Choudhary , Jiecao Yu , Ellie Wen , Zeliang Chen , Jiyan Yang , Jongsoo Park , Qiang Liu , Arun Kejariwal

Attention-based architectures have achieved superior performance in multivariate time series forecasting but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as patching and adaptive masking have been developed to reduce their sizes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Suhan Guo , Jiahong Deng , Mengjun Yi , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have superb characteristics in sensory information recognition tasks due to their biological plausibility. However, the performance of some current spiking-based models is limited by their structures which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Qi Xu , Yaxin Li , Xuanye Fang , Jiangrong Shen , Jian K. Liu , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is considered more biologically realistic and power-efficient as it imitates the fundamental mechanism of the human brain. Recently, backpropagation (BP) based SNN learning algorithms that utilize deep learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chengting Yu , Yangkai Du , Mufeng Chen , Aili Wang , Gaoang Wang , Erping Li

Multi-bit spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently become a heated research spot, pursuing energy-efficient and high-accurate AI. However, with more bits involved, the associated memory and computation demands escalate to the point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingting Yao , Qinghao Hu , Fei Zhou , Tielong Liu , Gang Li , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and neuromorphic computing offer bio-inspired advantages such as sparsity and ultra-low power consumption, providing a promising alternative to conventional networks. However, training deep SNNs from scratch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Aurora Micheli , Olaf Booij , Jan van Gemert , Nergis Tömen

State-of-the-art pretrained NLP models contain a hundred million to trillion parameters. Adapters provide a parameter-efficient alternative for the full finetuning in which we can only finetune lightweight neural network layers on top of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Quentin Delfosse , Kristian Kersting , Iryna Gurevych