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48 results for Sequence Compression

This work compresses sequences by treating them as continuous-time processes, enabling efficient discretization.

problem Efficient compression of sequences, especially with deep learning models that scale with sequence length.
method Treat sequences as continuous-time processes, learn efficient discretization, and decode at different time intervals.
result Automatic bit rate reductions in video and motion capture sequences using learned discretization.

A framework infers causal direction from symbolic sequences using compression measures.

problem Inferring causal direction from two observed discrete symbolic sequences.
method Lossless compressors for inferring context-free grammars (CFGs) and quantifying compression extent.
result Grammar inferred from one sequence better compresses the other sequence, indicating causal direction.

Proposes a method to train neural networks directly on compressed text data.

problem Training neural networks on compressed text data without decompression.
method Introduces composer modules to encode symbols from grammar compression rules into vector representations.
result Demonstrates that the proposed method can achieve both memory and computational efficiency while maintaining moderate performance.

We present the Compressive Transformer, an attentive sequence model which compresses past memories for long-range sequence learning. We find the Compressive Transformer obtains state-of-the-art language modelling results in the WikiText-103 and Enwik8 benchmarks, achieving 17.1 ppl and 0.97 bpc respectively. We also fi…

2019-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The usage of deep generative models for image compression has led to impressive performance gains over classical codecs while neural video compression is still in its infancy. Here, we propose an end-to-end, deep generative modeling approach to compress temporal sequences with a focus on video. Our approach builds upon…

2018-10-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We discuss algorithms for estimating the Shannon entropy h of finite symbol sequences with long range correlations. In particular, we consider algorithms which estimate h from the code lengths produced by some compression algorithm. Our interest is in describing their convergence with sequence length, assuming no limit…

2002-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Extractive compression is a challenging natural language processing problem. This work contributes by formulating neural extractive compression as a parse tree transduction problem, rather than a sequence transduction task. Motivated by this, we introduce a deep neural model for learning structure-to-substructure tree …

2018-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

For a real or complex semisimple Lie group GG and two nested parabolic subgroups QPGQ\subset P\subset G, we study parabolic geometries of type (G,Q)(G,Q). Associated to the group PP, we introduce a class of relative natural bundles and relative tractor bundles and construct some basic invariant differential operators on …

2015-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural NCD reveals LLMs don't compress well for classification.

problem The disconnect between compression and classification in neural networks.
method Developed Neural NCD to compare LLMs to classic algorithms, finding classification accuracy not correlated with compression rate.
result Classification accuracy is not predictable by compression rate alone, challenging current understanding.

A new memory-efficient sign language translation model reduces weight usage.

problem Memory constraints in real-time sign language translation.
method Variational Bayesian sequence-to-sequence network with Gaussian posterior and Indian Buffet Process prior.
result The proposed model achieves substantial weight compression without compromising performance.

We analyze the mapping class group of extendible automorphisms of the exterior boundary W of a compression body of dimension 3 or 4, which extend over the compression body (Q,V), where V is the interior boundary. Those that extend as automorphisms of (Q,V) rel V are called discrepant automorphisms, forming the mapping …

2006-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm reduces communication in distributed learning by sharing compressed beliefs.

problem Efficiently learning from private data in a distributed setting with large hypothesis sets.
method Proposes a belief update rule for distributed cooperative learning with compressed (sparse or quantized) beliefs.
result Beliefs converge almost surely to optimal hypotheses with a linear concentration rate.

Finding compact representation of videos is an essential component in almost every problem related to video processing or understanding. In this paper, we propose a generative model to learn compact latent codes that can efficiently represent and reconstruct a video sequence from its missing or under-sampled measuremen…

2019-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Prior work inspired by compression algorithms has described how the Burrows Wheeler Transform can be used to create a distance measure for bioinformatics problems. We describe issues with this approach that were not widely known, and introduce our new Burrows Wheeler Markov Distance (BWMD) as an alternative. The BWMD a…

2019-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a compression principle for neural networks using Bayesian optimization.

problem Finding methods for making generalizable predictions in machine learning.
method Compression principle and Bayesian optimization approach.
result Optimal predictive models minimize total compressed message length of data and model definition.

Global Memory Augmentation (GMAT) improves Transformer performance on long documents.

problem Large memory requirements of Transformer pairwise dot-product attention for long sequences.
method Integrates a dense global memory of length M into sparse Transformer blocks.
result Significant improvement on various tasks, including synthetic tasks, masked language modeling, and reading comprehension.

We consider a compact orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold with a compressible boundary. Suppose that we are given a sequence of geometrically finite hyperbolic metrics whose conformal boundary structures at infinity diverge to a projective lamination. We prove that if this limit projective lamination is doubly incompressi…

2007-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Most of the parameters in large vocabulary models are used in embedding layer to map categorical features to vectors and in softmax layer for classification weights. This is a bottle-neck in memory constraint on-device training applications like federated learning and on-device inference applications like automatic spe…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

WildCat efficiently compresses neural network attention mechanisms.

problem Expensive quadratic runtime of attention mechanisms in neural networks.
method Uses a weighted coreset with a fast subsampling algorithm to approximate attention with near-linear time complexity.
result Approximates exact attention with super-polynomial error decay and near-linear runtime.

Recurrent models for sequences have been recently successful at many tasks, especially for language modeling and machine translation. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to extract good representations from these models. For instance, even though language has a clear hierarchical structure going from characters throug…

2018-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a generalization of neural network sequence models. Instead of predicting one symbol at a time, our multi-scale model makes predictions over multiple, potentially overlapping multi-symbol tokens. A variation of the byte-pair encoding (BPE) compression algorithm is used to learn the dictionary of tokens that …

2017-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper describes a new online convex optimization method which incorporates a family of candidate dynamical models and establishes novel tracking regret bounds that scale with the comparator's deviation from the best dynamical model in this family. Previous online optimization methods are designed to have a total a…

2013-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is one of the most widely used recurrent structures in sequence modeling. It aims to use gates to control information flow (e.g., whether to skip some information or not) in the recurrent computations, although its practical implementation based on soft gates only partially achieves this g…

2018-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New adapted renormalized volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with compressible boundary.

problem Analyzing convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with compressible boundaries.
method Defining and analyzing a new version of the renormalized volume.
result The adapted renormalized volume is bounded and has properties analogous to the classical renormalized volume.

Stable long-term predictions for fluid flows using neural networks.

problem Predicting complex dynamics of fluid flows with high temporal stability.
method End-to-end trained neural network architecture combining CNN for spatial compression and LSTM for temporal prediction.
result Novel latent space subdivision (LSS) allows stable and controllable long-term predictions.

In this paper, we compare various methods to compress a text using a neural model. We find that extracting tokens as latent variables significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art discrete latent variable models such as VQ-VAE. Furthermore, we compare various extractive compression schemes. There are two best-performi…

2018-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Detection of rare variants by resequencing is important for the identification of individuals carrying disease variants. Rapid sequencing by new technologies enables low-cost resequencing of target regions, although it is still prohibitive to test more than a few individuals. In order to improve cost trade-offs, it has…

2009-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗