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48 results for computational methods

Review of modern computational optimal transport methods for biomedical applications.

problem Efficient computation of optimal transport for big data.
method Regularization-based and projection-based computational methods.
result Advancements in computational optimal transport methods for biomedical research.

Skyformer uses Gaussian kernel and Nyström method to speed up self-attention in transformers.

problem High computational cost of self-attention in transformers.
method Replaces softmax with Gaussian kernel and applies Nyström method for matrix approximation.
result Skyformer achieves comparable or better performance with fewer computation resources.

Quantum computing improves feature selection in machine learning.

problem Optimizing feature selection in machine learning problems.
method Formulated feature selection as a QUBO problem and compared quantum and classical methods.
result Quantum computing can outperform classical methods in feature selection, depending on data set.

This research simplifies computation of feature attribution methods under certain conditions.

problem Computational complexity of feature attribution methods, especially power indices.
method Identifying conditions for polynomial computation and introducing new indices.
result Conditions for efficient computation of feature attribution methods are identified.

Quantum machine learning tackles large datasets with randomized measurements.

problem Efficiently process large, high-dimensional datasets on quantum computers.
method Randomized measurements to scale linearly with dataset size and quadratic for post-processing.
result Substantial speed-up for noisy quantum computers, enabling image classification.

Nyström KPCA balances computational efficiency and statistical accuracy.

problem Computational burden in large sample situations for kernel methods.
method Theoretical analysis of Nyström approximate kernel principal component analysis (KPCA).
result Nyström approximate KPCA matches statistical performance of non-approximate KPCA while being computationally beneficial.

The paper extends a method for numerical conformal mappings to surfaces using Laplace-Beltrami equations.

problem Computing conformal mappings between Riemannian surfaces.
method Adapting the conjugate function method to Riemannian surfaces using hphp-adaptive finite element methods.
result Highly accurate numerical computations of conformal mappings on surfaces, including complex geometries.

ATA optimizes task allocation in distributed machine learning.

problem Greedy task allocation leads to inefficiencies in distributed machine learning.
method Adaptive Task Allocation (ATA) adapts to unknown computation time distributions.
result ATA identifies optimal task allocation without prior knowledge of computation times.

Reduced reservoir size for faster edge computing.

problem Efficiently reducing computational resources for reservoir computing.
method Concatenating past or drifting states of the reservoir to the output layer.
result Reduced reservoir size up to one tenth without significant error increase.

We present effective methods to compute equivariant harmonic maps from the universal cover of a surface into a nonpositively curved space. By discretizing the theory appropriately, we show that the energy functional is strongly convex and derive convergence of the discrete heat flow to the energy minimizer, with explic…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for efficient computation of Knowledge Gradient in Bayesian optimization.

problem Efficient computation of the Knowledge Gradient for Bayesian optimization.
method One-shot Hybrid KG, a new approach combining previous ideas.
result The new method is cheap to compute and preserves theoretical properties of previous methods.

Fiber simplifies RL and population-based methods for distributed training.

problem Challenges in RL and population-based methods, including frequent interaction with simulations and dynamic scaling.
method Introducing Fiber, a scalable distributed computing framework.
result Significantly expands accessibility of large-scale parallel computation.

Paper develops fast method for computing optimal transport.

problem Efficient computation of optimal transport distance between distributions.
method Entropy-regularized extragradient method for first-order optimization.
result Achieves state-of-the-art runtime guarantees and good numerical performance.

A new machine learning method calculates failure probability efficiently and accurately.

problem Computing the probability of failure for complex systems.
method Penalized Profile Support Vector Machine with adaptive sampling and clustering.
result The method minimizes model evaluations while preserving decision boundary geometry.

Study compares methods for computing hypergradients in machine learning problems.

problem Computing exact hypergradients in machine learning is difficult.
method Investigates reverse mode iterative differentiation and approximate implicit differentiation methods.
result Unified analysis provides iteration complexity bounds and hierarchy of methods.

A research frontier has emerged in scientific computation, wherein numerical error is regarded as a source of epistemic uncertainty that can be modelled. This raises several statistical challenges, including the design of statistical methods that enable the coherent propagation of probabilities through a (possibly dete…

2015-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

New methods accelerate NCGP inference by trading computation for uncertainty.

problem Prohibitively expensive exact inference in NCGPs for large datasets.
method Iterative methods explicitly modeling approximation error, leveraging parallel computing.
result Significant acceleration of posterior inference compared to baselines.

New method improves nonlinear filtering accuracy with reduced computation.

problem Complex nonlinear filtering with small system noise.
method Asymptotic expansion with ordinary differential equations and Edgeworth-type correction.
result Significantly lower computational cost with improved accuracy.

In this paper the possibility of computing equilibrium in pure exchange and production economies by a homotopy method is investigated. The performance of the algorithm is tested on examples with known equilibria taken from the literature on general equilibrium models and numerical results are presented. In computing eq…

2011-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Method computes centers of Poisson and skein algebras for loops on surfaces.

problem Computing centers of Poisson and skein algebras associated to loops on surfaces.
method Systematic method using Goldman and Wolpert's Poisson algebras and Turaev's skein algebras.
result Computed centers of various Poisson and skein algebras for finite type hyperbolic surfaces.

Regularizes persistent homology gradients for neural network integration.

problem Ill-posed inverse problem in computing gradients of persistent homology.
method Regularization through a grouping term to define gradients for larger entities.
result Ensures gradients are defined with respect to larger entities, not individual points.

New methods improve statistical accuracy of complex models without high computational cost.

problem Improving statistical accuracy of complex models without high computational cost.
method Neural posterior and likelihood estimation (NPE and NLE) methods.
result NPE and NLE methods have similar theoretical guarantees to ABC and BSL, but achieve accuracy at a reduced computational cost.

Mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and variants thereof approximate the objective function's gradient with a small number of training examples, aka the batch size. Small batch sizes require little computation for each model update but can yield high-variance gradient estimates, which poses some challenges for…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an algorithm for computing class-specific universal adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks. Such perturbations can induce misclassification in a large fraction of images of a specific class. Unlike previous methods that use iterative optimization for computing a universal perturbation, the propos…

2019-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗