Improved RNNs with flexible gates using kernel activation functions.
problem Modeling long-term dependencies in sequential data.
method Designed a more flexible architecture with adaptable parameters using kernel activation functions.
result Improved accuracy with negligible computational cost and speed-up in training iterations.
Flexible priors improve VAE-based CF models for better user preference modeling.
problem Simplistic priors in VAEs limit user preference modeling and deeper representation learning.
method Incorporated flexible priors and gating mechanisms into VAEs for collaborative filtering.
result Flexible priors and gating mechanisms significantly improve recommendation performance.
Proposes a new LSTM gate structure using bivariate Beta distribution.
problem Inflexibility of sigmoid gates in modeling multi-modality and skewness, and lack of modeling correlation between gates.
method Introduces a bivariate Beta distribution gate structure within LSTM cells.
result Empirically shows higher gradient values and improved model performance.
Bayesian models combine experts with a flexible gating mechanism for complex data.
problem Theoretical properties of Bayesian mixture-of-experts models with softmax gating remain unexplored.
method Investigated asymptotic behavior of posterior distribution for density estimation, parameter estimation, and model selection.
result Established posterior contraction rates for density estimation and parameter estimation, providing insights for practical model design.
Gradient Gating improves deep GNNs by modulating message passing updates.
problem Oversmoothing and performance degradation in deep GNNs.
method Gradient gating mechanism for multi-rate message passing.
result G2 framework alleviates oversmoothing and achieves state-of-the-art performance. A major contributing factor to the recent advances in deep neural networks is structural units that let sensory information and gradients to propagate easily. Gating is one such structure that acts as a flow control. Gates are employed in many recent state-of-the-art recurrent models such as LSTM and GRU, and feedforwa…
APINNs improve physics-informed neural networks through flexible domain decomposition.
problem Improving physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations (PDEs).
method Introduces a trainable gate network for soft domain decomposition, allowing flexible parameter sharing and improved generalization.
result APINNs significantly improve PINNs and XPINNs, demonstrating better performance on various types of PDEs.
Paper introduces a simpler gated RNN structure to better capture long-term dependencies.
problem Difficulty in learning long-term dependencies in RNNs.
method Proposes a grouped distributor unit (GDU) with partitioned hidden states and adaptive update rates.
result GDU outperforms LSTM and GRU on various tasks, including pathological and natural data.
Paper reduces AI complexity with pre-defined sparsity and hardware acceleration.
problem Reduction of computational and storage complexity in neural networks.
method Pre-defined sparsity and hardware acceleration architecture.
result Significant reduction in storage and computational complexity (5X+ reduction) without significant performance loss.
In this article, we propose a novel ensemble technique with a multi-scheme weighting based on a technique called coopetitive soft gating. This technique combines both, ensemble member competition and cooperation, in order to maximize the overall forecasting accuracy of the ensemble. The proposed algorithm combines the …
Graph-structured data appears frequently in domains including chemistry, natural language semantics, social networks, and knowledge bases. In this work, we study feature learning techniques for graph-structured inputs. Our starting point is previous work on Graph Neural Networks (Scarselli et al., 2009), which we modif…
Paper proposes a novel method to accurately determine the number of experts in Gaussian-gated Gaussian MoE models.
problem Challenges in model selection for MoE models, especially with covariates.
method Introduces a novel extension using dendrograms of mixing measures to estimate the true number of mixture components.
result Achieves optimal convergence rates for parameter estimation and accurately approximates the regression function.
A new method prunes neural networks efficiently without losing effectiveness.
problem Efficient pruning of neural networks without sacrificing performance.
method Deterministic approximation of binary gates and L0 regularization. result Pruning neural networks significantly without loss in effectiveness.
The process of designing neural architectures requires expert knowledge and extensive trial and error. While automated architecture search may simplify these requirements, the recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures generated by existing methods are limited in both flexibility and components. We propose a domain-s…
Boosts share routing for multi-task learning with flexible sparse connections.
problem Designing suitable sharing mechanisms among multiple tasks in multi-task learning.
method Proposes MTNAS framework to modularize sharing into sub-networks with sparse connections and gating.
result Demonstrates consistent improvement over single-task and typical multi-task methods while maintaining efficiency.
This work improves Gaussian process inference using mixtures of experts and nested SMC samplers.
problem High computational and memory costs of Gaussian processes.
method Mixtures of Gaussian process experts with nested SMC samplers.
result Significantly improved inference compared to importance sampling.
The paper studies 4-qubit Clifford states and their properties.
problem Understanding the set and properties of 4-qubit Clifford states.
method Analyzing the 293760 4-qubit Clifford states, splitting them into 18 groups, and studying the action of CNOT gates and local gates.
result There are 293760 4-qubit Clifford states with specific entanglement entropies, and any pair can be connected with local gates and at most 3 CNOT gates.
Improved logistic MoE with sigmoid gate shows better sample efficiency.
problem Improving sample efficiency in logistic MoE models.
method Comprehensive analysis of multinomial logistic MoE with modified sigmoid gate, incorporating temperature parameter and using Euclidean score.
result The sigmoid gate leads to lower sample complexity than softmax gate for both parameter and expert estimation.
New method prepares 3-qubit states using local gates and controlled-Z gates.
problem Preparation of 3-qubit states using quantum gates.
method Uses Ry(θ) gates and controlled-Z gates, with an optimal number of controlled-Z gates. result Optimal number of controlled-Z gates for preparing 3-qubit states is four. Sigmoid gating is more sample efficient than softmax in mixture of experts.
problem Softmax gating leads to unnecessary competition among experts, causing representation collapse.
method Theoretical analysis of a regression framework with mixture of experts, identifying identifiability conditions and convergence rates.
result Sigmoid gating requires fewer samples to achieve the same expert estimation error as softmax gating.
In quantum computation, series of quantum gates have to be arranged in a predefined sequence that led to a quantum circuit in order to solve a particular problem. What if the sequence of quantum gates is known but both the problem to be solved and the outcome of the so defined quantum circuit remain in the shadow? This…
Bayesian method sparsifies gated RNNs, improving speed and interpretability.
problem Sparsifying neural networks to reduce complexity and improve performance.
method Bayesian approach to sparsify weights, neurons, and gates in LSTM architectures.
result Sparsified gated RNNs speed up forward pass and improve compression.
We sparsify gated RNNs by simplifying their structure.
problem Improving efficiency of RNNs by reducing their complexity.
method Adjust existing sparsification techniques to gated RNNs, sparsifying preactivations of gates.
result Simplified LSTM structure improves model performance and efficiency.
Gated attention improves model curvature, enhancing performance on nonlinear tasks.
problem Understanding the geometric implications of gating in attention mechanisms.
method Modeling attention outputs as Gaussian distributions and analyzing Fisher--Rao geometry.
result Gated attention enables non-flat geometries, including positively curved manifolds.
Gated attention improves performance by using a hierarchical mixture of experts.
problem Improving performance of self-attention mechanisms in Transformers.
method Rigorously show that gated attention can be modeled as a hierarchical mixture of experts, providing a theoretical justification for its benefits.
result Gated attention is more sample-efficient than multi-head self-attention, requiring fewer data points to achieve the same estimation error.
Given the success of the gated recurrent unit, a natural question is whether all the gates of the long short-term memory (LSTM) network are necessary. Previous research has shown that the forget gate is one of the most important gates in the LSTM. Here we show that a forget-gate-only version of the LSTM with chrono-ini…
Gating units in GRUs and LSTMs create slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
problem Training challenges in RNNs due to exploding or vanishing gradients.
method Random matrix theory and mean-field theory applied to GRUs and LSTMs.
result Gates in GRUs and LSTMs lead to accumulation of slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
Improved HMoE models using Laplace gating function enhance expert specialization and performance.
problem Improving performance of hierarchical mixture of experts models.
method Used Laplace gating function instead of Softmax in hierarchical mixture of experts models.
result Laplace gating function accelerates expert convergence and enhances specialization.
The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that these GRU-RNN variant models perform as well as the original GRU RNN model while…
This study analyzes communication constraints in MoE architectures using information theory.
problem Communication constraints in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
method Developed a rate-distortion characterization of finite-rate gating in MoE architectures using information theory.
result Yielded capacity-aware limits for communication-constrained MoE systems.
A new approach to quantum machine learning circuits reduces training difficulties.
problem Challenges in training deep quantum circuits due to flat training landscapes.
method Variable structure approach (VAns) to build ansatzes, applying rules for gate growth and removal.
result VAns successfully mitigates trainability and noise-related issues, improving performance in various applications.
Reduced-gate LSTM improves spatiotemporal prediction with less parameters.
problem Next-frame video prediction in deep learning.
method Predictive coding framework with reduced-gate convolutional LSTM.
result Reduced-gate model achieves equal or better accuracy with fewer parameters.
Paper proposes binary-valued gates for better LSTM training.
problem LSTMs struggle with soft gates, leading to unclear information flow.
method Introduces binary-valued gates to control information flow more clearly.
result Binary-valued gates improve LSTM performance and generalization.
New algorithm improves on EM for streaming data, outperforming existing methods.
problem Processing high-volume, streaming data efficiently.
method Incremental stochastic Majorization-Minimization (MM) algorithm.
result The algorithm converges to a stationary point with vanishing gradient.
This paper analyzes how gradient descent can learn parameters in mixture-of-experts models with gating.
problem Understanding parameter recovery in mixture-of-experts models with gating.
method Careful analysis of the optimization landscape and design of two distinct loss functions.
result Gradient descent can accurately learn parameters in mixture-of-experts models with gating.
A fast method combines deep mixtures of sparse GPs for flexible modeling.
problem Flexible modeling with changing output densities.
method Designing gating network with DNN for selecting sparse GPs, using CCR algorithm.
result The method outperforms competing methods in accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
GLCB uses Gated Linear Networks for online contextual bandits.
problem Online learning in contextual bandits with uncertainty estimation.
method Gated Linear Networks (GLNs) for prediction and uncertainty estimation.
result GLCB outperforms state-of-the-art methods in online contextual bandits.
Paper connects MoE and self-attention, proposing active-attention.
problem Improving efficiency and performance of self-attention mechanisms.
method Established connection between MoE and self-attention, analyzed quadratic gating functions, proposed active-attention mechanism.
result Active-attention outperforms standard self-attention in various tasks.
Solves challenges in estimating parameters of softmax gating Gaussian mixture models.
problem Identifiability issues and complex interactions in Gaussian mixture of experts.
method Proposes novel Voronoi loss functions and establishes convergence rates of MLE.
result Connects convergence rate of MLE to a solvability problem of polynomial equations.
A new LSTM model reduces state updates and improves convergence for long sequences.
problem Vanishing gradient problem in RNNs and slow convergence on long sequences.
method Gaussian-gated LSTM (g-LSTM) with a time gate to control neuron updates.
result The g-LSTM model reduces state updates and computes by at least 10x compared to an equivalent LSTM.
Proposes a Varying-Coefficient MoE model for analyzing dynamic data.
problem Inadequate constant coefficients in MoE models for dynamic settings.
method Varying-Coefficient Mixture of Experts (VCMoE) model with varying coefficients in gating and expert models.
result Established identifiability and consistency of the VCMoE model.
A new method quantizes LSTM gate parameters without performance loss.
problem Quantization loss in LSTM gate parameters without performance degradation.
method Lossy quantization of gate parameters during training, weight parameters adjust to offset quantization loss.
result F1 score decreased by only 0.7% on Named Entity Recognition dataset.
Deep gated networks help understand training and generalization in deep learning.
problem Understanding the role of SGD in training and generalization of deep neural networks with ReLU activation.
method Developed deep gated networks (DGNs) as a framework to analyze training and generalization in DNNs with ReLU activation.
result Gate adaptation is key for generalization in deep neural networks.
This paper tackles model selection for MoE models in high-dimensional data.
problem Model selection for Gaussian-gated localized MoE and block-diagonal covariance localized MoE regression models in high-dimensional data.
method Penalized maximum likelihood estimation framework with non-asymptotic risk bounds.
result Established non-asymptotic risk bounds for model selection in MoE models.
There is a pressing need to build an architecture that could subsume these networks under a unified framework that achieves both higher performance and less overhead. To this end, two fundamental issues are yet to be addressed. The first one is how to implement the back propagation when neuronal activations are discret…
LSTMs were introduced to combat vanishing gradients in simple RNNs by augmenting them with gated additive recurrent connections. We present an alternative view to explain the success of LSTMs: the gates themselves are versatile recurrent models that provide more representational power than previously appreciated. We do…
The paper establishes convergence rates for MoE models in classification problems.
problem Understanding the behavior of MoE models in classification settings.
method Established convergence rates for density and parameter estimation in softmax gating multinomial logistic MoE models.
result Parameter estimation rates are significantly improved with a novel modified softmax gating function.
Improved neural networks with conditional gating and reduced computational cost.
problem Training large capacity neural networks with high accuracy and low computational cost.
method Fine-grained channel gating using batch-shaping and residual blocks.
result Conditional gating improves network accuracy and computational efficiency.