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48 results for Precision cardiology

Emergent and unscheduled cardiology admissions from cardiac catheterization laboratory add complexity to the management of Cardiology and in-patient department. In this article, we sought to study the behavior of cardiology admissions from Catheterization laboratory using time series models. Our research involves retro…

2018-12-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic method identifies Purkinje network from ECG data.

problem Challenging task of identifying Purkinje conduction system in heart.
method Bayesian optimization and approximate Bayesian computation for probabilistic identification.
result Generates a population of plausible Purkinje networks fitting ECG within tolerance.

Novel framework for contextual anomaly detection models uncertainty.

problem Identifying anomalies in target variables influenced by contextual variables.
method Normalcy score (NS) framework using heteroscedastic Gaussian process regression.
result NS outperforms state-of-the-art methods in detection accuracy and interpretability.

Sleep arousals transition the depth of sleep to a more superficial stage. The occurrence of such events is often considered as a protective mechanism to alert the body of harmful stimuli. Thus, accurate sleep arousal detection can lead to an enhanced understanding of the underlying causes and influencing the assessment…

2019-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The role of automatic electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis in clinical practice is limited by the accuracy of existing models. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are models composed of stacked transformations that learn tasks by examples. This technology has recently achieved striking success in a variety of task and there are gr…

2019-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, the electrocardiogram (ECG) has seen a large diffusion in both medical and commercial applications, fueled by the rise of single-lead versions. Single-lead ECG can be embedded in medical devices and wearable products such as the injectable Medtronic Linq monitor, the iRhythm Ziopatch wearable monitor, …

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New scalable method balances hospital profit status and heart attack outcomes.

problem Balancing covariate distributions and minimizing weight dispersion in large datasets.
method Combines kernel basis expansion and convex optimization for efficient and flexible weighting.
result For-profit hospitals use interventional cardiology similarly to other hospitals but have higher mortality and readmission rates.

Fourier Neural Operators accurately predict dynamics of high-dimensional ionic models.

problem Approximating stiff, multiscale ionic models using neural networks.
method Fourier Neural Operators for learning dynamics of high-dimensional ionic models.
result Fourier Neural Operators can accurately predict dynamics of high-dimensional ionic models.

Low precision weights, activations, and gradients have been proposed as a way to improve the computational efficiency and memory footprint of deep neural networks. Recently, low precision networks have even shown to be more robust to adversarial attacks. However, typical implementations of low precision DNNs use unifor…

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores low-precision SGLD for neural networks, reducing costs without sacrificing performance.

problem Infeasibility of low-precision sampling in large-scale scenarios.
method Developed low-precision SGLD with quantization function and full-precision gradient accumulators.
result Low-precision SGLD achieves comparable performance to full-precision SGLD with only 8 bits.

Low precision operations can provide scalability, memory savings, portability, and energy efficiency. This paper proposes SWALP, an approach to low precision training that averages low-precision SGD iterates with a modified learning rate schedule. SWALP is easy to implement and can match the performance of full-precisi…

2019-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves low-precision sampling using SGHMC for deep learning models.

problem Enhancing training efficiency of deep neural networks with low-precision training.
method Investigates low-precision sampling via Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (SGHMC) for both log-concave and non-log-concave distributions.
result Low-precision SGHMC achieves quadratic improvement in error compared to SGLD for non-log-concave distributions.

Low-precision computation is often used to lower the time and energy cost of machine learning, and recently hardware accelerators have been developed to support it. Still, it has been used primarily for inference - not training. Previous low-precision training algorithms suffered from a fundamental tradeoff: as the num…

2018-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient Bitwidth Search optimizes neural network quantization for better performance.

problem Finding optimal bitwidth for weights and activations of each layer efficiently.
method EBS algorithm reusing meta weights and binary decomposition for efficient mixed precision convolution.
result Mixed precision QNN outperforms uniform bitwidth and other techniques on CIFAR10 and ImageNet.

Deep neural networks have enabled progress in a wide variety of applications. Growing the size of the neural network typically results in improved accuracy. As model sizes grow, the memory and compute requirements for training these models also increases. We introduce a technique to train deep neural networks using hal…

2017-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

It is well-known that the precision of data, hyperparameters, and internal representations employed in learning systems directly impacts its energy, throughput, and latency. The precision requirements for the training algorithm are also important for systems that learn on-the-fly. Prior work has shown that the data and…

2016-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper introduces a new method to train normalizing flows using precision-recall divergences.

problem Training generative models with mode dropping and low-quality samples.
method Introduces PR-divergences and proposes a novel generative model to minimize precision-recall trade-offs.
result Normalizing flows can be trained to achieve specific precision-recall trade-offs using PR-divergences.

Low-precision streaming PCA estimates the leading eigenvector with limited precision.

problem Estimating the leading eigenvector in a streaming setting with limited precision.
method Oja's algorithm with linear and nonlinear stochastic quantization.
result A batched version of the quantized variants achieves the lower bound on quantization error up to logarithmic factors.

Low-precision training reduces computational cost and produces efficient models. Recent research in developing new low-precision training algorithms often relies on simulation to empirically evaluate the statistical effects of quantization while avoiding the substantial overhead of building specific hardware. To suppor…

2019-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

EMPIR combines low and full precision DNNs to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of DNNs to adversarial attacks that misclassify inputs with small perturbations.
method Ensemble of quantized DNN models with different numerical precisions.
result EMPIR ensembles increase adversarial robustness by 42.6% on average across different tasks.

The paper improves Bayesian precision matrix estimation for high-dimensional sparse data.

problem Estimating sparse precision matrices in high-dimensional settings.
method Tempered posterior with fully specified horseshoe prior.
result Concentration results and theoretical oracle inequality for posterior.

New proposed models are often compared to state-of-the-art using statistical significance testing. Literature is scarce for classifier comparison using metrics other than accuracy. We present a survey of statistical methods that can be used for classifier comparison using precision, accounting for inter-precision corre…

2016-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Reduced precision computation for deep neural networks is one of the key areas addressing the widening compute gap driven by an exponential growth in model size. In recent years, deep learning training has largely migrated to 16-bit precision, with significant gains in performance and energy efficiency. However, attemp…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

SINGD improves KFAC for memory-efficiency and stability in low-precision training.

problem Memory inefficiency and numerical instability of KFAC in low-precision training.
method Formulated inverse-free KFAC update and imposed structures in Kronecker factors.
result SINGD is memory-efficient and numerically robust, often outperforming AdamW in half precision.

Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) are probabilistic tools of choice for analyzing conditional dependencies between variables in complex systems. Finding changepoints in the structural evolution of a GGM is therefore essential to detecting anomalies in the underlying system modeled by the GGM. In order to detect structur…

2016-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new R package for high-dimensional regression and precision matrix estimation.

problem High-dimensional linear regression and precision matrix estimation challenges.
method flare package implements various regression methods and extensions for sparse precision matrix estimation.
result The flare package is efficient and scalable for large problems.

In this paper, we study the precise asymptotics of noncompact Type-IIb solutions to the mean curvature flow. Precisely, for each real number γ>0γ>0, we construct mean curvature flow solutions, in the rotationally symmetric class, with the following precise asymptotics as tt\nearrow\infty: (1) The highest curvature conc…

2020-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Finite-precision learning of anh anh networks is limited by the Monte Carlo rate.

problem Learning anh anh neural networks under finite precision
method Using iterated anh anh activations to construct localized bump functions
result No adaptive randomized algorithm can achieve higher convergence rate than Monte Carlo rate in finite precision

HMQ improves quantization for edge devices with mixed precision.

problem Efficient quantization for edge devices with uniform, power-of-two thresholds.
method Introduces HMQ, a mixed precision quantization block that repurposes Gumbel-Softmax for searching over quantization schemes.
result Achieves competitive and state-of-the-art results on ImageNet despite restrictions.

Diagonal transformations preserve independence structures in non-Gaussian distributions.

problem Preserving independence structures in non-Gaussian distributions.
method Diagonal nonlinear transformations of multivariate normal variables.
result Independence structures are preserved in non-Gaussian distributions under diagonal transformations.

This work studies scaling laws for low-precision training in high-dimensional linear regression.

problem Optimizing trade-off between model quality and training costs in high-dimensional linear regression.
method Theoretical study of scaling laws for low-precision training within a high-dimensional sketched linear regression framework, analyzing multiplicative and additive quantization.
result Multiplicative quantization maintains full-precision model size, while additive quantization reduces effective model size.