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One of the approaches for the nearest neighbor search problem is to build a network which nodes correspond to the given set of indexed objects. In this case the search of the closest object can be thought as a search of a node in a network.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Alexander Ponomarenko , Irina Utkina , Mikhail Batsyn

Training competitive deep video models is an order of magnitude slower than training their counterpart image models. Slow training causes long research cycles, which hinders progress in video understanding research. Following standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Chao-Yuan Wu , Ross Girshick , Kaiming He , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Philipp Krähenbühl

Recent work has shown that optimizing the Learning Rate (LR) schedule can be a very accurate and efficient way to train deep neural networks. We observe that the rate of change (ROC) of LR has correlation with the training process, but how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Tao Zhang , Wei Li

The choice of a proper learning rate is paramount for good Artificial Neural Network training and performance. In the past, one had to rely on experience and trial-and-error to find an adequate learning rate. Presently, a plethora of state…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Pedro Carvalho , Nuno Lourenço , Filipe Assunção , Penousal Machado

Learning how to learn efficiently is a fundamental challenge for biological agents and a growing concern for artificial ones. To learn effectively, an agent must regulate its learning speed, balancing the benefits of rapid improvement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Valentina Njaradi , Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis , Peter E. Latham , Andrew Saxe

The success of deep neural networks in real-world problems has prompted many attempts to explain their training dynamics and generalization performance, but more guiding principles for the training of neural networks are still needed.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Lin Zhang , Ling Feng , Kan Chen , Choy Heng Lai

Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., linear chains) in which search and parameter estimation can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

Schedule-Free Learning has shown promise as a practical anytime training method for machine learning, showing success across dozens of standard benchmark problems. However, strong performance for LLM training has only been demonstrated at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Aaron Defazio

One very important hyperparameter for training deep neural networks is the learning rate schedule of the optimizer. The choice of learning rate schedule determines the computational cost of getting close to a minima, how close you actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Nikhil Iyer , V Thejas , Nipun Kwatra , Ramachandran Ramjee , Muthian Sivathanu

We scrutinize the structural and operational aspects of deep learning models, particularly focusing on the nuances of learnable parameters (weight) statistics, distribution, node interaction, and visualization. By establishing correlations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Intriguing empirical evidence exists that deep learning can work well with exoticschedules for varying the learning rate. This paper suggests that the phenomenon may be due to Batch Normalization or BN, which is ubiquitous and provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhiyuan Li , Sanjeev Arora

Recurrent neural networks are nowadays successfully used in an abundance of applications, going from text, speech and image processing to recommender systems. Backpropagation through time is the algorithm that is commonly used to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Cedric De Boom , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

Finding the optimal learning rate for language model pretraining is a challenging task. This is not only because there is a complicated correlation between learning rate, batch size, number of training tokens, model size, and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Yikang Shen , Matthew Stallone , Mayank Mishra , Gaoyuan Zhang , Shawn Tan , Aditya Prasad , Adriana Meza Soria , David D. Cox , Rameswar Panda

Learning is a complex dynamical process shaped by a range of interconnected decisions. Careful design of hyperparameter schedules for artificial neural networks or efficient allocation of cognitive resources by biological learners can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-11 Francesca Mignacco , Francesco Mori

We study optimal learning-rate schedules (LRSs) under the functional scaling law (FSL) framework introduced in Li et al. (2025), which accurately models the loss dynamics of both linear regression and large language model (LLM)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Binghui Li , Zilin Wang , Fengling Chen , Shiyang Zhao , Ruiheng Zheng , Lei Wu

In this paper, we describe a phenomenon, which we named "super-convergence", where neural networks can be trained an order of magnitude faster than with standard training methods. The existence of super-convergence is relevant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Leslie N. Smith , Nicholay Topin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Low precision training can significantly reduce the computational overhead of training deep neural networks (DNNs). Though many such techniques exist, cyclic precision training (CPT), which dynamically adjusts precision throughout training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cameron R. Wolfe , Anastasios Kyrillidis

In recent years, deep neural networks have had great success in machine learning and pattern recognition. Architecture size for a neural network contributes significantly to the success of any neural network. In this study, we optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yigit Alparslan , Ethan Jacob Moyer , Isamu Mclean Isozaki , Daniel Schwartz , Adam Dunlop , Shesh Dave , Edward Kim

Deep Neural networks are efficient and flexible models that perform well for a variety of tasks such as image, speech recognition and natural language understanding. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) generate a keen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yesmina Jaafra , Jean Luc Laurent , Aline Deruyver , Mohamed Saber Naceur