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48 results for Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)

GPU speeds up Monte Carlo simulations for large time steps.

problem Slow convergence and inaccurate solutions with large time steps in Monte Carlo simulations.
method Generalizes the Seven League scheme for GPU acceleration.
result Significantly improved computational speed.

Matrix Factorization (MF) on large scale matrices is computationally as well as memory intensive task. Alternative convergence techniques are needed when the size of the input matrix is higher than the available memory on a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphical Processing Unit (GPU). While alternating least squar…

2019-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Rgtsvm provides a fast and flexible support vector machine (SVM) implementation for the R language. The distinguishing feature of Rgtsvm is that support vector classification and support vector regression tasks are implemented on a graphical processing unit (GPU), allowing the libraries to scale to millions of examples…

2017-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops a new simulation technique for estimating conditional expectations in financial models.

problem Estimating conditional expectations in financial models with expensive simulation of endogenous variables.
method Introduces a hierarchical simulation scheme with oversimplified defaults to address variance issues.
result The hierarchical simulation technique significantly improves the success of neural net regression for conditional expectation estimation.

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…

2013-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

DREAM model improves computational efficiency for non-linear effects in relational event models.

problem Efficiently modeling non-linear effects in dynamic relational networks.
method Introduces Deep Relational Event Additive Model (DREAM) using Neural Additive Models.
result Demonstrates superior computational efficiency compared to traditional REM approaches.

In this paper, we present a novel massively parallel algorithm for accelerating the decision tree building procedure on GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), which is a crucial step in Gradient Boosted Decision Tree (GBDT) and random forests training. Previous GPU based tree building algorithms are based on parallel multi-…

2017-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper improves financial trading models using GPU parallelism.

problem Challenges in policy instability and sampling bottlenecks in reinforcement learning for financial tasks.
method Revisits ensemble methods with massively parallel simulations on GPUs.
result Significantly improved computational efficiency and robustness of financial decision-making strategies.

Extensive neural networks eliminate the need for SABR pricing formulas.

problem Lack of exact pricing formulas for the SABR model.
method Used a GPU-based simulation and an extensive neural network to learn implied volatilities.
result Neural networks achieve high accuracy and efficiency comparable to Monte-Carlo simulations.

GPU (graphics processing unit) has been used for many data-intensive applications. Among them, deep learning systems are one of the most important consumer systems for GPU nowadays. As deep learning applications impose deeper and larger models in order to achieve higher accuracy, memory management becomes an important …

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a state-of-the art metric for comparing discrete probability distributions, but its high distinguishability comes at a high cost in computational complexity. Even though linear-complexity approximation algorithms have been proposed to improve its scalability, these algorithms are eit…

2018-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses geometric moments for accurate machine learning potentials.

problem Creating high-dimensional potential energy surfaces efficiently.
method Feed-forward neural networks with invariant local molecular descriptors based on geometric moments.
result Accuracy comparable to established models, high efficiency.

On-device inference of machine learning models for mobile phones is desirable due to its lower latency and increased privacy. Running such a compute-intensive task solely on the mobile CPU, however, can be difficult due to limited computing power, thermal constraints, and energy consumption. App developers and research…

2019-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The rapid growth of data size and accessibility in recent years has instigated a shift of philosophy in algorithm design for artificial intelligence. Instead of engineering algorithms by hand, the ability to learn composable systems automatically from massive amounts of data has led to ground-breaking performance in im…

2016-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe a simple, low-level approach for embedding probabilistic programming in a deep learning ecosystem. In particular, we distill probabilistic programming down to a single abstraction---the random variable. Our lightweight implementation in TensorFlow enables numerous applications: a model-parallel variational …

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A deep generative model is developed for representation and analysis of images, based on a hierarchical convolutional dictionary-learning framework. Stochastic {\em unpooling} is employed to link consecutive layers in the model, yielding top-down image generation. A Bayesian support vector machine is linked to the top-…

2015-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

SELD-TCN improves sound event localization and detection efficiency.

problem Efficient sound event localization and detection on embedded hardware.
method Developed a novel temporal convolutional network (TCN) architecture.
result SELD-TCN outperforms state-of-the-art SELDnet on four datasets.

Matrix product states (MPS), a tensor network designed for one-dimensional quantum systems, has been recently proposed for generative modeling of natural data (such as images) in terms of `Born machine'. However, the exponential decay of correlation in MPS restricts its representation power heavily for modeling complex…

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗