New model analyzes customer churn with tensor completion and binary data.
problem Analyzing the impact of interventions on customer churn.
method Tensorized latent factor block hazard model with 1-bit tensor completion.
result Effective categorization of interventions by similar impacts.
New protocols show 1-bit mean estimation can be order-optimal without interaction.
problem Can 1-bit mean estimation be optimal without interaction?
method Adaptive and non-adaptive threshold and interval queries, with one adaptive transition.
result Arbitrary non-adaptive quantizers can match the adaptive rate, suggesting interaction is not necessary.
Paper offers robust recovery for 1-bit sensing with partial Gaussian circulant matrices.
problem Accurately recovering vectors from 1-bit measurements using structured matrices.
method Correlation-based optimization with randomly signed partial Gaussian circulant matrices and generative models.
result Recovery guarantees match those for i.i.d. Gaussian matrices but with faster computation.
A new method for 1-bit matrix completion that is faster and more accurate.
problem Estimating a low-rank matrix from binary observations.
method Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton (MMGN) method.
result MMGN outperforms existing methods in accuracy and speed.
Paper develops an efficient mean estimator for 1-bit communication constraints.
problem Mean estimation under 1-bit communication constraints.
method Adaptive mean estimator based on randomized threshold queries.
result Order-optimal sample complexity in various tail regimes.
Matrix completion has a long-time history of usage as the core technique of recommender systems. In particular, 1-bit matrix completion, which considers the prediction as a ``Recommended'' or ``Not Recommended'' question, has proved its significance and validity in the field. However, while customers and products aggre…
Paper proposes a 1-bit quantization scheme for high-dimensional statistical estimation.
problem High-dimensional statistical estimation with limited data.
method Uniformly dithered 1-bit quantization for sparse covariance matrix estimation, sparse linear regression, and matrix completion.
result Near minimax rates in sub-Gaussian regime and improved rates in heavy-tailed regime.
The goal of standard 1-bit compressive sensing is to accurately recover an unknown sparse vector from binary-valued measurements, each indicating the sign of a linear function of the vector. Motivated by recent advances in compressive sensing with generative models, where a generative modeling assumption replaces the u…
New method predicts binary matrix entries using empirical Bayes and low-rank structure.
problem Predicting unobserved entries in binary matrices.
method Empirical Bayes method motivated by Efron--Morris estimator, exploiting low-rank structure.
result Superior performance in predictive accuracy, calibration, and efficiency compared to existing methods.
Study quantile reward identification with 1-bit feedback constraints.
problem Best arm identification with quantile reward and 1-bit communication.
method Proposes an algorithm using noisy binary search for quantile reward estimation.
result Derives upper and lower bounds on sample complexity for 1-bit feedback.
Study improves fractional posterior for 1-bit matrix completion.
problem Estimating a binary matrix from observed entries.
method Fractional posterior approach with low-rank factorization and spectral scaled Student priors.
result Concentration results for fractional posterior, demonstrating effectiveness in matrix recovery.
New algorithm tackles batched stochastic linear bandits with 1-bit communication constraints.
problem Stochastic linear bandits with 1-bit communication constraints.
method Phased-elimination algorithms based on G-optimal designs and 1-bit mean estimation.
result Achieves near-optimal regret bounds for broad scaling regimes.
Paper proposes a 1-bit mean estimation method with near-optimal sample complexity.
problem Distributed mean estimation with 1-bit communication constraints.
method Randomized and sequentially-chosen interval queries to estimate mean.
result Sample complexity bound matches minimax lower bound with logarithmic factors.
We consider the problem of noisy 1-bit matrix completion under an exact rank constraint on the true underlying matrix M∗. Instead of observing a subset of the noisy continuous-valued entries of a matrix M∗, we observe a subset of noisy 1-bit (or binary) measurements generated according to a probabilistic model. W…
For fast and energy-efficient deployment of trained deep neural networks on resource-constrained embedded hardware, each learned weight parameter should ideally be represented and stored using a single bit. Error-rates usually increase when this requirement is imposed. Here, we report large improvements in error rates …
Binary Iterative Hard Thresholding converges with optimal number of 1-bit measurements.
problem Recovering sparse signals from 1-bit compressed measurements.
method Binary Iterative Hard Thresholding (BIHT) algorithm.
result BIHT converges with only O(k/ε) measurements, optimal for recovery.
Social trust prediction addresses the significant problem of exploring interactions among users in social networks. Naturally, this problem can be formulated in the matrix completion framework, with each entry indicating the trustness or distrustness. However, there are two challenges for the social trust problem: 1) t…
Paper analyzes BIHT for noisy 1-bit CS, improving results with up to τ-fraction of incorrect measurements.
problem Estimating sparse vectors from noisy sign measurements in 1-bit compressed sensing.
method Binary Iterative Hard Thresholding (BIHT) algorithm, using Gaussian matrices and high-dimensional geometry analysis.
result BIHT provides estimates within ε+τ error with τ-fraction of incorrect measurements, maintaining universality of measurements.
Low-bit training framework reduces energy consumption in CNNs.
problem Reducing energy consumption in convolutional neural networks.
method Low-bit training framework using MLS tensor format with dynamic quantization.
result Achieves superior trade-off between accuracy and bit-width.
Moniqua improves SGD convergence with quantized communication.
problem Efficiently communicating in decentralized SGD with limited bandwidth.
method Modulo quantized communication in decentralized SGD.
result Moniqua converges at the same rate as full-precision communication with less bits.
Paper studies signal detection in noisy environments with limited communication.
problem Signal detection in Gaussian noise with 1-bit communication constraints.
method Derives lower bounds and exhibits optimal testing strategies.
result Optimal distributed testing strategies attain the derived lower bound.
We consider in this paper the problem of noisy 1-bit matrix completion under a general non-uniform sampling distribution using the max-norm as a convex relaxation for the rank. A max-norm constrained maximum likelihood estimate is introduced and studied. The rate of convergence for the estimate is obtained. Information…
We present DeepFPC, a novel deep neural network designed by unfolding the iterations of the fixed-point continuation algorithm with one-sided l1-norm (FPC-l1), which has been proposed for solving the 1-bit compressed sensing problem. The network architecture resembles that of deep residual learning and incorporates pri…
Study on recovering sparse linear classifiers from mixed binary responses.
problem Learning a mixture of sparse linear classifiers from binary responses.
method Query-based approach to identify all sparse vectors from a set.
result Upper bounds on the number of queries required for recovery.
Autoencoders fail to capture sparse structure in 1-bit data compression.
problem Proving the performance of shallow autoencoders on sparse data compression.
method Gradient descent analysis and approximate message passing.
result Gradient descent minimizer for sparse data is the identity (up to permutation) above critical sparsity.
Study on recovering supports of multiple sparse vectors from mixed linear measurements.
problem Recovering supports of multiple sparse vectors from a mixture of linear measurements.
method Developed algorithms to identify the support of all component vectors using polynomial and quasi-polynomial number of measurements.
result Polynomial and quasi-polynomial number of measurements sufficient for recovering the supports of all component vectors.
Unified framework for uniform signal recovery in nonlinear GCS with 1-bit/quantized measurements.
problem Uniform recovery guarantees for nonlinear generative compressed sensing.
method Unified framework using generalized Lasso and Lipschitz approximation.
result Uniform recovery of all signals in the ball up to an error of ε using approximately O(k/ε^2) samples.
Paper tackles 1-bit compressed sensing, presenting efficient algorithm for sparse signal estimation.
problem Estimating sparse signals from binary measurements.
method Non-convex sparsity-constrained program with one-shot hard thresholding.
result Simple algorithm produces accurate signal approximation with high probability.
Communication overhead is a major bottleneck hampering the scalability of distributed machine learning systems. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using gradient compression to improve the communication efficiency of distributed neural network training. Using 1-bit quantization, signSGD with majority vote …
Due to challenging applications such as collaborative filtering, the matrix completion problem has been widely studied in the past few years. Different approaches rely on different structure assumptions on the matrix in hand. Here, we focus on the completion of a (possibly) low-rank matrix with binary entries, the so-c…
We study channel number reduction in combination with weight binarization (1-bit weight precision) to trim a convolutional neural network for a keyword spotting (classification) task. We adopt a group-wise splitting method based on the group Lasso penalty to achieve over 50% channel sparsity while maintaining the netwo…
The paper develops a robust signal estimation method for noisy measurements from generative models.
problem Signal estimation from noisy non-linear measurements with adversarial corruptions.
method Generalized Lasso approach with sub-Gaussian measurements and adversarial noise consideration.
result The method requires $O\left(\frac{k}{ε^2}\log L
ight)$ samples for ε-error recovery, robust to adversarial noise. This paper introduces a differentiable, scalable quantization method for neural networks.
problem Previous quantization methods lacked differentiability and scalability.
method The approach is differentiable and scalable, using bit-shifting and logarithmic quantization.
result The method achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art approaches with less training time and lower inference cost.
Implementing large-scale deep neural networks with high computational complexity on low-cost IoT devices may inevitably be constrained by limited computation resource, making the devices hard to respond in real-time. This disjunction makes the state-of-art deep learning algorithms, i.e. CNN (Convolutional Neural Networ…
BiTAT improves neural network quantization for edge devices by focusing on weight dependencies and disentangling them.
problem Performance degradation of compact neural networks under extreme quantization.
method Task-dependent Aggregated Transformation (BiTAT) method that orthonormalizes weights and progressively quantizes them.
result BiTAT effectively preserves model performance on ImageNet and CIFAR-100 with compact backbones.
In this paper, we propose a test, called Flagged-1-Bit (F1B) test, to study the intrinsic capability of recurrent neural networks in sequence learning. Four different recurrent network models are studied both analytically and experimentally using this test. Our results suggest that in general there exists a conflict be…
This paper resolves BIHT convergence, showing normalization is not necessary in noiseless settings but crucial for robustness.
problem Analyzing convergence and robustness of BIHT for 1-bit compressed sensing.
method Characterizes BIHT convergence and robustness, proving necessity of normalization for robustness under sign corruptions.
result Per-iteration normalization is not necessary for optimal recovery in noiseless settings but is crucial for robustness under sign corruptions.
For the efficient execution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on edge devices, various approaches have been presented which reduce the bit width of the network parameters down to 1 bit. Binarization of the first layer was always excluded, as it leads to a significant error increase. Here, we present the novel…
This paper finds a unique partition of a sample space for estimating continuous distributions.
problem Estimating continuous probability distributions from finite samples.
method Equal-probability partition of the sample space using order statistics.
result The partition yields an entropy of log2(N+1) bits, providing a discrete entropy estimate.
New quantization methods improve accuracy of Random Fourier Features.
problem Improving accuracy of Random Fourier Features for machine learning.
method Sigma-Delta and distributed noise-shaping quantization methods for 1-bit and low bit-depth quantization.
result Quantized RFFs allow high accuracy approximation of underlying kernels with polynomial error decay.
Enhances LLM quantization with MDBF, improving perplexity and accuracy.
problem Limited performance of Double Binary Factorization in extreme quantization.
method Introduces Multi-envelope DBF, retaining sign matrices and replacing single envelope with rank-l envelope. result Improves perplexity and zero-shot accuracy over previous binary formats.
The recent framework of compressive statistical learning aims at designing tractable learning algorithms that use only a heavily compressed representation-or sketch-of massive datasets. Compressive K-Means (CKM) is such a method: it estimates the centroids of data clusters from pooled, non-linear, random signatures of …
FleXOR trains fractional quantization for neural networks, improving accuracy and size.
problem Quantization limits to integer bits restricts compression and accuracy.
method Encryption algorithm with XOR gates for fractional bits during inference.
result FleXOR achieves high accuracy with fractional sub-1-bit weights.
The paper defines minimal norm tensors for curvature and divergence tensors, explaining Weyl and Cotten tensors.
problem Understanding curvature tensors and their minimal norm.
method Analyzing minimal norm tensors for third and fourth covariant tensors, including Riemannian curvature and divergence.
result Weyl tensor and Cotten tensor are identified as minimal norm tensors of Riemannian curvature and divergence tensors, respectively.
Optimal distributed testing under communication constraints with shared randomness.
problem Signal detection in a distributed system with limited communication.
method Derivation of minimax testing errors, distributed testing algorithms, and theoretical lower bounds.
result Consistent nonparametric distributed testing is possible even with minimal communication.
Model compression techniques, such as pruning and quantization, are becoming increasingly important to reduce the memory footprints and the amount of computations. Despite model size reduction, achieving performance enhancement on devices is, however, still challenging mainly due to the irregular representations of spa…
A new tree method for tensor data improves regression accuracy.
problem Efficiently modeling tensor data for regression problems.
method Scalar-output regression tree models for scalar-on-tensor problems, and tensor-on-tensor problems using additive tree ensemble approaches.
result The tensor-input tree (TT) method outperforms tensor-input GP models in efficiency and accuracy.
Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) show promising progress in reducing computational and memory costs but suffer from substantial accuracy degradation compared to their real-valued counterparts on large-scale datasets, e.g., ImageNet. Previous work mainly focused on reducing quantization errors of weights and activations, w…