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48 results for Weight sharing

Algorithm learns which weights to share in deep multi-task learning.

problem Difficulty in deciding which weights to share between tasks in deep learning models.
method Combines natural evolution strategy and stochastic gradient descent to learn optimal weight sharing.
result Task-specific networks achieve lower test errors than existing methods on multi-task learning datasets.

With the success of deep neural networks, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a way of automatic model design has attracted wide attention. As training every child model from scratch is very time-consuming, recent works leverage weight-sharing to speed up the model evaluation procedure. These approaches greatly reduce …

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper evaluates heuristics and hyperparameters in weight-sharing NAS methods.

problem Improving the performance of weight-sharing NAS methods.
method Systematic evaluation of heuristics and hyperparameters in weight-sharing NAS algorithms.
result Some heuristics negatively impact super-net and stand-alone performance correlation.

Weight-sharing (WS) has recently emerged as a paradigm to accelerate the automated search for efficient neural architectures, a process dubbed Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although very appealing, this framework is not without drawbacks and several works have started to question its capabilities on small hand-craf…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines how weight sharing, equivariance, and locality affect the sample complexity of neural networks.

problem Understanding the impact of design choices on the generalization error of neural networks.
method Statistical learning theory applied to single hidden layer networks with weight sharing, equivariance, and locality.
result Lower and upper bounds for sample complexity are derived, showing that locality has benefits but comes with a trade-off.

K-FAC speeds up training of modern neural networks with linear weight-sharing.

problem Efficiently training modern neural networks with linear weight-sharing layers.
method Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature (K-FAC) applied to linear weight-sharing layers.
result K-FAC-reduce is generally faster than K-FAC-expand for deep linear networks.

This paper extends liquidity returns in geometric mean markets to time-varying weights.

problem Understanding returns and no-arbitrage prices in geometric mean markets with time-varying weights.
method Extending known results for constant-weight G3Ms to the general case of G3Ms with time-varying and potentially stochastic weights.
result LP shares can replicate the payoffs of financial derivatives and various trading strategies.

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS, that generalizes existing weight sharing based NAS approaches. Existing weight shar…

2019-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Mirror descent with an entropic regularizer is known to achieve shifting regret bounds that are logarithmic in the dimension. This is done using either a carefully designed projection or by a weight sharing technique. Via a novel unified analysis, we show that these two approaches deliver essentially equivalent bounds …

2012-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Theoretical analysis of CNNs' inductive biases and their efficiency in approximating functions.

problem Understanding and optimizing the inductive biases in deep CNNs.
method Theoretical analysis combining multichanneling, downsampling, weight sharing, and locality.
result Deep CNNs with O(logd)\mathcal{O}(\log d) depth can approximate any continuous function, and require O~(log2d)\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\log^2d) samples for sparse functions.

Proposes a new method for rank-consistent ordinal regression without weight-sharing constraints.

problem Ordinal response variables in real-world prediction problems are often ignored by conventional classification losses.
method CORN framework using conditional training sets and the chain rule for conditional probability distributions.
result Improves performance substantially compared to the CORAL reference approach without weight-sharing restrictions.

CNNs require fewer samples than LCNs and FCNs for image-based tasks due to locality and weight sharing.

problem Quantifying statistical benefits of locality and weight sharing in CNNs over LCNs and FCNs.
method Dynamic Signal Distribution (DSD) task and information theoretic tools.
result CNNs require fewer samples than LCNs and FCNs for image-based tasks.

We identify a phenomenon, which we refer to as multi-model forgetting, that occurs when sequentially training multiple deep networks with partially-shared parameters; the performance of previously-trained models degrades as one optimizes a subsequent one, due to the overwriting of shared parameters. To overcome this, w…

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New concept of attitude towards probability introduced in risk sharing problems.

problem Risk sharing problems and attitudes towards probability.
method Generalized definition of probability premium, local approximation, rank-dependent utility model, dual theory.
result Attitude towards probability can be first-order or second-order, depending on the model.

This paper improves auto-augment efficiency by sharing augmentation weights.

problem Efficient evaluation of augmentation policies for model training.
method Augmentation-Wise Weight Sharing (AWS) to create a fast yet accurate proxy task.
result Augmentation policies found achieve superior accuracies compared to existing methods.

The paper improves classification accuracy by leveraging a shared signal across domains in high-dimensional classification.

problem Improving classification accuracy in high-dimensional data with shared signals across domains.
method Transfer learning for linear discriminant analysis, decomposing mean differences into common and domain-specific components.
result Deterministic limits for transfer performance, leading to optimal weights and corrections for bias.

The success of deep learning in numerous application domains created the de- sire to run and train them on mobile devices. This however, conflicts with their computationally, memory and energy intense nature, leading to a growing interest in compression. Recent work by Han et al. (2015a) propose a pipeline that involve…

2017-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a method for simultaneously detecting shared and unshared communities in heterogeneous multilayer weighted and undirected networks. The multilayer network is assumed to follow a generative probabilistic model that takes into account the similarities and dissimilarities between the communities. We make use of…

2018-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Diffusion models adapt to low-dimensional structures for nonparametric density estimation.

problem High-dimensional statistical inference challenges.
method Viewing diffusion models as implicit density estimators and exploiting their low-dimensional structure.
result Achieves minimax optimal rate for total variation distance with factorizable density.

New insights into choosing between two data integration methods based on SVD.

problem Choosing between two data integration methods (Stack-SVD and SVD-Stack) for shared latent structure across multiple datasets.
method Derive exact expressions for the asymptotic performance and phase transitions of Stack-SVD and SVD-Stack, and develop optimal weighting schemes.
result Optimally weighted Stack-SVD outperforms optimally weighted SVD-Stack in the asymptotic regime.

Introduces Causal Energy Minimization to understand Transformer layers.

problem Empirical parameterization of Transformer blocks remains largely unexplored.
method Causal Energy Minimization framework that recasts Transformer layers as optimization steps on conditional energy functions.
result Identifies design space for Transformer layers including weight sharing and energy-based interpretations.

Model improves covariance estimation from shared and distinct datasets.

problem Limited sample sizes and shared covariance structure across related datasets.
method Spiked covariance model with shared subspace, closed-form pooling weight, and asymptotic guarantees.
result Improves estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices from related datasets.

NetFuse merges different DNN models with varying weights for faster inference.

problem Inference speed of DNN models with different weights cannot be improved using existing techniques.
method NetFuse merges models with the same architecture but different weights and inputs, replacing operations with more general ones.
result NetFuse can speed up DNN inference time up to 3.6x on a NVIDIA V100 GPU.

This paper uses graph convolutional networks to improve the accuracy of neural architecture search.

problem Improving the precision of sampled sub-networks in weight-sharing NAS.
method Training a graph convolutional network to fit the performance of sampled sub-networks.
result Achieved higher rank correlation coefficient and better final architecture performance.

Different neural networks trained on the same dataset often learn similar input-output mappings with very different weights. Is there some correspondence between these neural network solutions? For linear networks, it has been shown that different instances of the same network architecture encode the same representatio…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-task learning (MTL) allows deep neural networks to learn from related tasks by sharing parameters with other networks. In practice, however, MTL involves searching an enormous space of possible parameter sharing architectures to find (a) the layers or subspaces that benefit from sharing, (b) the appropriate amoun…

2017-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

SPIRE enables efficient federated learning for diffusion models by separating client-specific embeddings from a shared backbone.

problem Large diffusion models are impractical for federated learning due to their size.
method SPIRE separates the network into a global backbone and client-specific embeddings, enabling efficient finetuning.
result SPIRE achieves parameter-efficient finetuning, updating only a small fraction of weights.

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this field, we propose new NAS baselines that build off the following observations: (i) …

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Approaches to continual learning aim to successfully learn a set of related tasks that arrive in an online manner. Recently, several frameworks have been developed which enable deep learning to be deployed in this learning scenario. A key modelling decision is to what extent the architecture should be shared across tas…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Collecting the large datasets needed to train deep neural networks can be very difficult, particularly for the many applications for which sharing and pooling data is complicated by practical, ethical, or legal concerns. However, it may be the case that derivative datasets or predictive models developed within individu…

2018-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Many machine learning algorithms are based on the assumption that training examples are drawn independently. However, this assumption does not hold anymore when learning from a networked sample because two or more training examples may share some common objects, and hence share the features of these shared objects. We …

2014-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers the scenario that multiple data owners wish to apply a machine learning method over the combined dataset of all owners to obtain the best possible learning output but do not want to share the local datasets owing to privacy concerns. We design systems for the scenario that the stochastic gradient d…

2018-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles negative transfer in multi-task learning by introducing class-wise weights.

problem Negative transfer hampers function from achieving optimality in multi-task learning.
method Introduces class-wise weights to drive positive transfer and suppress negative transfer.
result Demonstrates improved performance in multi-task learning by reducing negative transfer.

We provide a series of results for unsupervised learning with autoencoders. Specifically, we study shallow two-layer autoencoder architectures with shared weights. We focus on three generative models for data that are common in statistical machine learning: (i) the mixture-of-gaussians model, (ii) the sparse coding mod…

2018-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗