We consider efficient implementations of the generalized lasso dual path algorithm of Tibshirani and Taylor (2011). We first describe a generic approach that covers any penalty matrix D and any (full column rank) matrix X of predictor variables. We then describe fast implementations for the special cases of trend filte…
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Efficient verified double auctions improve matching speed and detect errors.
Paper proves Pareto efficient insurance for multiple entities.
Efficiently implements polar slice sampling for high-dimensional distributions.
We derive scaling laws for optimizing neural networks in hardware.
Paper presents efficient algorithms for convolutional neural networks using Winograd minimal filtering.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are becoming increasingly important for time series-related applications which require efficient and real-time implementations. The recent pruning based work ESE suffers from degradation of performance/energy efficiency due to the irregular network structure after pruning. We propose bl…
The rapidly growing demands for powerful AI algorithms in many application domains have motivated massive investment in both high-quality deep neural network (DNN) models and high-efficiency implementations. In this position paper, we argue that a simultaneous DNN/implementation co-design methodology, named Neural Arch…
A neural-network-based approach is presented to efficiently implement digital backpropagation (DBP). For a 32x100 km fiber-optic link, the resulting "learned" DBP significantly reduces the complexity compared to conventional DBP implementations.
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a dimensionality reduction technique that can boost efficiency of machine learning models that deal with probability density functions, e.g. Bayesian neural networks. Algorithms that implement adaptive ICA converge slower than their nonadaptive counterparts, however, they are cap…
ESN models predict intraday stock returns efficiently.
De-identification of clinical records is an extremely important process which enables the use of the wealth of information present in them. There are a lot of techniques available for this but none of the method implementation has evaluated the scalability, which is an important benchmark. We evaluated numerous deep le…
This paper describes a novel approach of packing sparse convolutional neural networks for their efficient systolic array implementations. By combining subsets of columns in the original filter matrix associated with a convolutional layer, we increase the utilization efficiency of the systolic array substantially (e.g.,…
Many computationally-efficient methods for Bayesian deep learning rely on continuous optimization algorithms, but the implementation of these methods requires significant changes to existing code-bases. In this paper, we propose Vprop, a method for Gaussian variational inference that can be implemented with two minor c…
Although optimization is the longstanding algorithmic backbone of machine learning, new models still require the time-consuming implementation of new solvers. As a result, there are thousands of implementations of optimization algorithms for machine learning problems. A natural question is, if it is always necessary to…
This technical report presents pseudo-code for a Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) method to efficiently simulate samples from -dimensional posterior distributions , where is drawn from a Gaussian Process (GP) prior, and observations are independent given . Sufficient…
We introduce the C++ application and R package ranger. The software is a fast implementation of random forests for high dimensional data. Ensembles of classification, regression and survival trees are supported. We describe the implementation, provide examples, validate the package with a reference implementation, and …
A new method for efficient computation of Knowledge Gradient in Bayesian optimization.
Quantum SVT reduces credit risk analysis costs.
Recursive neural networks have widely been used by researchers to handle applications with recursively or hierarchically structured data. However, embedded control flow deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe2, and MXNet fail to efficiently represent and execute such neural networks, due to lack of s…
This paper optimizes SMPC for neural network inference, reducing memory and time.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original variables. Sparse PCA (SPCA) aims to balance statistical fidelity and interpretab…
Efficient numerical method for time-fractional Black-Scholes model.
We give polynomial-time algorithms for the exact computation of lowest-energy (ground) states, worst margin violators, log partition functions, and marginal edge probabilities in certain binary undirected graphical models. Our approach provides an interesting alternative to the well-known graph cut paradigm in that it …
Orthogonium offers unified, efficient layers for robust deep learning.
Efficiently implements MEG for low-rank matrix optimization problems.
We introduce efficient numerical methods for generic HJM equations of interest rate theory by means of high-order weak approximation schemes. These schemes allow for QMC implementations due to the relatively low dimensional integration space. The complexity of the resulting algorithm is considerably lower than the comp…
Efficient packages solve SLOPE problem in multiple languages.
Simplifies efficient estimation via automatic differentiation and probabilistic programming.
We introduce geomstats, a python package that performs computations on manifolds such as hyperspheres, hyperbolic spaces, spaces of symmetric positive definite matrices and Lie groups of transformations. We provide efficient and extensively unit-tested implementations of these manifolds, together with useful Riemannian…
Catalyst.RL accelerates RL research with efficient training.
Lipschitz continuity recently becomes popular in generative adversarial networks (GANs). It was observed that the Lipschitz regularized discriminator leads to improved training stability and sample quality. The mainstream implementations of Lipschitz continuity include gradient penalty and spectral normalization. In th…
Efficient equivariant MobileNetV2 for medical applications on mobile devices.
The success of neural networks in image classification has inspired various hardware implementations on embedded platforms such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays, embedded processors and Graphical Processing Units. These embedded platforms are constrained in terms of power, which is mainly consumed by the Multiply Accu…
HiPart offers an efficient, interactive tool for hierarchical clustering.
tf_geometric simplifies graph deep learning in TensorFlow.
This study considers that the collective route choices of travelers en route represent a resolution of their competition on network routes. Well understanding this competition and coordinating their route choices help mitigate urban traffic congestion. Even though existing studies have developed such mechanisms (e.g., …
coverforest speeds up conformal predictions for random forests.
EiNets improve PCs for scalable probabilistic modeling.
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired mathematical models with the ability to process information in the form of spikes. SNNs are expected to provide not only new machine-learning algorithms, but also energy-efficient computational models when implemented in VLSI circuits. In this paper, we propose a novel …
New algorithms solve linear bandits in high dimensions efficiently.
Nested Chinese Restaurant Process (nCRP) topic models are powerful nonparametric Bayesian methods to extract a topic hierarchy from a given text corpus, where the hierarchical structure is automatically determined by the data. Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA) is a popular instance of nCRP topic models. H…
New efficient algorithm for approximate PML distribution.
advertorch is a toolbox for adversarial robustness research. It contains various implementations for attacks, defenses and robust training methods. advertorch is built on PyTorch (Paszke et al., 2017), and leverages the advantages of the dynamic computational graph to provide concise and efficient reference implementat…
The original Broad Learning System (BLS) on new added nodes and its existing efficient implementation both assume the ridge parameter lambda -> 0 in the ridge inverse to approximate the generalized inverse, and compute the generalized inverse solution for the output weights. In this paper, we propose two ridge solution…
New software package for scalable DPMM inference on large datasets.
The main aim of this work is to develop and implement an automatic anomaly detection algorithm for meteorological time-series. To achieve this goal we develop an approach to constructing an ensemble of anomaly detectors in combination with adaptive threshold selection based on artificially generated anomalies. We demon…
An online algorithm improves cPCA for efficient, interpretable data analysis.