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48 results for Sparse Structure

Sparse deep neural networks(DNNs) are efficient in both memory and compute when compared to dense DNNs. But due to irregularity in computation of sparse DNNs, their efficiencies are much lower than that of dense DNNs on regular parallel hardware such as TPU. This inefficiency leads to poor/no performance benefits for s…

2018-08-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an extension of sparse PCA, or sparse dictionary learning, where the sparsity patterns of all dictionary elements are structured and constrained to belong to a prespecified set of shapes. This \emph{structured sparse PCA} is based on a structured regularization recently introduced by [1]. While classical spa…

2009-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method discovers causal relationships in sparse linear data.

problem Discovering cause-effect relationships in sparse linear data.
method Uses structural matrix to reconstruct data and identify causal structures without independence tests.
result Outperforms existing methods in sparse causal structure recovery.

New estimators improve sparse semiparametric additive modeling.

problem Sparse semiparametric additive modeling with structured sparsity.
method Combines group subset selection with shrinkage for nonconvex optimization.
result New estimators outperform alternatives in synthetic and real-world data.

This paper explores efficient neural networks by identifying sparse structures.

problem Reducing computational complexity in neural networks without sacrificing accuracy.
method Identifying and utilizing sparse structures in neural network weights and activations.
result Large and sparse models are more beneficial for practical problems.

We present a comprehensive framework for structured sparse coding and modeling extending the recent ideas of using learnable fast regressors to approximate exact sparse codes. For this purpose, we develop a novel block-coordinate proximal splitting method for the iterative solution of hierarchical sparse coding problem…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This work introduces a method to compare sparse neural network topologies using graph theory.

problem Comparing and understanding sparse neural network topologies, especially during training.
method Introducing Neural Network Sparse Topology Distance (NNSTD) to measure distances between different sparse neural networks.
result Sparse neural networks can outperform over-parameterized models without further structure optimization.

This paper investigates the computational complexity of sparse label propagation which has been proposed recently for processing network structured data. Sparse label propagation amounts to a convex optimization problem and might be considered as an extension of basis pursuit from sparse vectors to network structured d…

2018-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper connects neural network hyperparameter optimization and NAS to structured sparse recovery.

problem Hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search in neural networks.
method Structured sparse recovery methods applied to HPO and NAS.
result Improvements in hyperparameter optimization and discovery of novel neural architectures.

This paper proposes a method to reveal task relationships in multi-task learning models using sparse graphs.

problem Understanding the underlying task relationships in multi-task learning models.
method Proposes a bilevel formulation of multi-task learning that induces sparse graphs.
result The method improves interpretability of multi-task learning models without sacrificing generalization performance.

Oracle inequality for sparse neural nets adapts to unknown structure.

problem Sparse deep neural nets in nonparametric regression.
method Gibbs posterior distribution with Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithms and mixture of uniform priors.
result Oracle inequality showing adaptation to unknown regularity and structure, achieving minimax-optimal rate of convergence.

New method handles structural uncertainty in graphs better than existing models.

problem Handling heterophily and structural noise in semi-supervised learning on graphs.
method Sparse signed message passing network that models a posterior distribution over signed adjacency matrices.
result Our method outperforms strong baseline models on heterophilic benchmarks under both synthetic and real-world structural noise.

The performance of sparse signal recovery from noise corrupted, underdetermined measurements can be improved if both sparsity and correlation structure of signals are exploited. One typical correlation structure is the intra-block correlation in block sparse signals. To exploit this structure, a framework, called block…

2012-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse representations using data dictionaries provide an efficient model particularly for signals that do not enjoy alternate analytic sparsifying transformations. However, solving inverse problems with sparsifying dictionaries can be computationally expensive, especially when the dictionary under consideration has a …

2015-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

SPARTAN learns sparse interaction graphs between objects in scenes.

problem Capturing structured interactions between entities in complex settings remains challenging.
method SPARTAN is a Transformer-based world model that learns sparse, context-dependent interaction graphs through sparsity regularization on attention patterns.
result SPARTAN achieves significantly improved few-shot adaptation to dynamics changes and robustness against distractors.

AEN-SAEs address feature starvation in sparse autoencoders by stabilizing the geometric alignment of sparse coding.

problem Feature starvation in sparse autoencoders, leading to unstable and misaligned representations.
method Adaptive Elastic Net SAEs (AEN-SAEs) combine 2\ell_2 and 1\ell_1 terms to stabilize the sparse coding map and control feature interactions.
result AEN-SAEs mitigate feature starvation without heuristic resampling, maintaining competitive reconstruction abilities.

Structured prediction requires searching over a combinatorial number of structures. To tackle it, we introduce SparseMAP: a new method for sparse structured inference, and its natural loss function. SparseMAP automatically selects only a few global structures: it is situated between MAP inference, which picks a single …

2018-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

MT-HAL learns features and task associations for multiple tasks with a shared sparse structure.

problem Learning features and task associations for multiple tasks with shared structure.
method Fully nonparametric approach that learns features, samples, and task associations with a shared sparse structure.
result MT-HAL achieves a powerful convergence rate and outperforms other methods across various simulation settings.

In this paper a new Bayesian model for sparse linear regression with a spatio-temporal structure is proposed. It incorporates the structural assumptions based on a hierarchical Gaussian process prior for spike and slab coefficients. We design an inference algorithm based on Expectation Propagation and evaluate the mode…

2017-04-27abs ↗pdf ↗

SpinSVAR estimates SVAR models with sparse input, improving accuracy and scalability.

problem Estimating SVAR models with sparse input assumptions.
method SpinSVAR models input as independent Laplacian variables, enforcing sparsity and using least absolute error regression.
result SpinSVAR outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and runtime, identifying significant structural shocks.

Paper identifies sparse structures and communities in heterogeneous graphical models.

problem Detecting community structures in graphical models.
method Novel decomposition into sparse and low-rank parts, three-stage estimation procedure.
result Consistent model selection for adaptive 1\ell_1 penalized estimator.

In this paper we formally analyse the use of sparse filtering algorithms to perform covariate shift adaptation. We provide a theoretical analysis of sparse filtering by evaluating the conditions required to perform covariate shift adaptation. We prove that sparse filtering can perform adaptation only if the conditional…

2016-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper improves GP regression for sparse sensor data in structural mode shape reconstruction.

problem Reconstructing full-field structural mode shapes from sparse sensor data.
method Physics-Constrained Single-Output Gaussian Process (CONS-SOGP) framework.
result The proposed method provides more accurate and reliable mode shapes.

RNNs solve modular addition tasks using low rank and sparse Fourier structures.

problem Solving modular addition tasks with recurrent neural networks.
method Identified low rank structures and sparse Fourier representations in RNN weights.
result RNNs robust to removing individual frequencies but degrade with more ablation.

This paper presents a novel Block Iterative Bayesian Algorithm (Block-IBA) for reconstructing block-sparse signals with unknown block structures. Unlike the existing algorithms for block sparse signal recovery which assume the cluster structure of the nonzero elements of the unknown signal to be independent and identic…

2014-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning the "blocking" structure is a central challenge for high dimensional data (e.g., gene expression data). Recently, a sparse singular value decomposition (SVD) has been used as a biclustering tool to achieve this goal. However, this model ignores the structural information between variables (e.g., gene interacti…

2016-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Regular variation provides a convenient theoretical framework to study large events. In the multivariate setting, the dependence structure of the positive extremes is characterized by a measure - the spectral measure - defined on the positive orthant of the unit sphere. This measure gathers information on the localizat…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework for inferring latent structure from sparse, imperfectly detected bipartite networks.

problem Recovering latent structure from sparse, imperfectly detected bipartite networks in ecology.
method Structured sparse nonnegative low-rank factorization with detection probability estimation and ADMM-based algorithm.
result Improved recovery of latent factors and structure compared to existing methods.

In high dimensional settings, sparse structures are crucial for efficiency, either in term of memory, computation or performance. In some contexts, it is natural to handle more refined structures than pure sparsity, such as for instance group sparsity. Sparse-Group Lasso has recently been introduced in the context of l…

2016-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for sparse regression models using graph structure.

problem Sparse regression models for high-dimensional data.
method Decomposes coefficient vector into latent variables, performs regularization on latent variables, uses proximal projection.
result Stable performance compared to other models, especially for high-dimensional data.

Many transformations in deep learning architectures are sparsely connected. When such transformations cannot be designed by hand, they can be learned, even through plain backpropagation, for instance in attention mechanisms. However, during learning, such sparse structures are often represented in a dense form, as we d…

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs), on discrete as well as continuous random variables, from a finite number of samples. We show that the minimum number of samples required by any procedure to recover the correct structure grows as Ω(m)Ω(m) and $Ω…

2016-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel algorithm learns sparse signal representations over topological spaces.

problem Sparse representation of signals over combinatorial topological spaces.
method Leveraging Hodge theory, the paper embeds topology into a dictionary structure via concatenated sub-dictionaries, each as a polynomial of Hodge Laplacians, and optimizes the dictionary coefficients and sparse signal representation via iterative alternating algorithms.
result Efficiently learned sparse representations and underlying relational structure of topological signals.

Proposes RBGP framework for efficient block sparse neural networks.

problem Efficiently exploit structured sparsity patterns for sparse neural networks on GPU.
method Uses Ramanujan Bipartite Graph Product to generate structured multi-level block sparse neural networks.
result Achieves 5-9x and 2-5x runtime gains over unstructured and block sparsity patterns respectively, while maintaining accuracy.

New pruning method for sparse additive models speeds up causal structure learning.

problem Efficiently prune spurious edges from fully-connected DAG induced by estimated topological order.
method Sparse additive models combined with randomized tree embedding and group-wise sparse regression.
result Significantly faster than existing pruning methods while maintaining comparable accuracy.