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48 results for computational speed

This paper establishes for the first time the predictive performance of speed priors and their computational complexity. A speed prior is essentially a probability distribution that puts low probability on strings that are not efficiently computable. We propose a variant to the original speed prior (Schmidhuber, 2002),…

2016-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum computing speeds up asset pricing models exponentially.

problem Solving dynamic nonlinear asset pricing models efficiently.
method Utilizes quantum superposition and entanglement to solve models exponentially faster than classical methods.
result Exponential computational speed-up for solving asset pricing models.

Improves distributed SGD convergence speed with reduced computation load.

problem Mitigating stragglers in distributed SGD to speed up convergence.
method Modeling communication and computation times, adapting number of workers and computation load dynamically.
result Significantly reduces computation load while improving convergence speed.

DistPre predicts traffic speeds efficiently for large networks.

problem Fine-grained, accurate speed prediction for large-scale transportation networks.
method Customizes LSTM models on a cluster, sharing trained models between detectors.
result Efficient and accurate fine-grained traffic-speed prediction.

Classical optimization algorithms in machine learning often take a long time to compute when applied to a multi-dimensional problem and require a huge amount of CPU and GPU resource. Quantum parallelism has a potential to speed up machine learning algorithms. We describe a generic mathematical model to leverage quantum…

2019-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum algorithms speed up reinforcement learning policies in large state-action spaces.

problem Limitations of quantum access in training reinforcement learning policies.
method Designing quantum algorithms to train reinforcement learning policies.
result Quantum algorithms offer full quadratic speed-ups in sample complexity for well-behaved policies.

Ringleader ASGD optimizes SGD for diverse edge devices with varying data and computation speeds.

problem Scalable distributed optimization with heterogeneous devices and data.
method Ringleader ASGD, an asynchronous SGD algorithm.
result Achieves optimal time complexity under data heterogeneity and arbitrary computation speeds.

CodedFedL speeds up federated learning in MEC networks by 15x.

problem Slow convergence in federated learning due to heterogeneity and stochastic fluctuations.
method Injects structured coding redundancy into federated learning to mitigate stragglers and speed up training.
result CodedFedL speeds up the training procedure by up to 15x compared to benchmark schemes.

GPU speeds up Monte Carlo simulations for large time steps.

problem Slow convergence and inaccurate solutions with large time steps in Monte Carlo simulations.
method Generalizes the Seven League scheme for GPU acceleration.
result Significantly improved computational speed.

WeSpeR speeds up non-linear shrinkage for high-dimensional weighted covariance.

problem Computing non-linear shrinkage formulas for high-dimensional weighted sample covariance.
method Derive extit{WeSpeR} algorithm using asymptotic sample spectrum properties.
result Significantly speeds up non-linear shrinkage in dimensions higher than 1000.

Paper speeds up GP inference by reducing precision matrix computation.

problem High computational complexity in computing kernel precision matrices.
method Splitting precision matrix into Hankel-Toeplitz matrices and computing only unique entries.
result Precision matrix computation reduced from O(NM2)\mathcal{O}(NM^2) to O(NM)\mathcal{O}(NM).

Four new methods for computing generalized chi-square distribution.

problem Computing the generalized chi-square distribution accurately and efficiently.
method Two exact and two approximate methods, with software for cdf, pdf, and inverse cdf.
result Comparison of methods' accuracy and speed, identifying best for different cases.

Paper proposes a pre-conditioning method to speed up gradient descent in multi-agent optimization.

problem Speed up convergence of gradient descent in multi-agent optimization problems.
method Iterative pre-conditioning approach to mitigate the effect of problem conditioning.
result Significant improvement in convergence speed of gradient descent method.

MTFL improves UA and speeds convergence in personalised DNNs on edge devices.

problem Non-IID user data harms FL convergence and global UA is not always the goal.
method Introduces non-federated BN layers into federated DNNs for personalised training.
result MTFL reduces UA rounds by up to 5x and convergence time by up to 3x.

We developed efficient methods to compute gradients for Neural SDEs, improving training speed and accuracy.

problem Training Neural SDEs requires accurate and efficient computation of gradients, which is challenging due to the complexity of SDEs.
method We introduced a reversible Heun method for solving backwards-in-time SDEs and a Brownian Interval for sampling and reconstructing Brownian motion.
result Our methods significantly improve training speed and accuracy for Neural SDEs, outperforming state-of-the-art techniques.

We compare the CPU effort and pricing biases of seven Fourier-based implementations. Our analyses show that truncation and discretization errors significantly increase as we move away from the Black-Scholes-Merton framework. We rank the speed and accuracy of the competing choices, showing which methods require smaller …

2017-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

NoTMF forecasts sparse urban road movement speeds with nonstationary temporal matrix factorization.

problem Sparse and nonstationary movement speed data from urban roads.
method Nonstationary Temporal Matrix Factorization (NoTMF) model.
result NoTMF outperforms baseline models in forecasting urban road movement speeds.

Stochastic variational inference (SVI) employs stochastic optimization to scale up Bayesian computation to massive data. Since SVI is at its core a stochastic gradient-based algorithm, horizontal parallelism can be harnessed to allow larger scale inference. We propose a lock-free parallel implementation for SVI which a…

2018-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

HollowFlow speeds up likelihood evaluation for large-scale models.

problem Prohibitive scaling of sample likelihood computations in flow-based models.
method Introduces HollowFlow, a flow-based generative model using a NoBGNN with a block-diagonal Jacobian structure.
result Achieves up to O(n^2) speed-up in likelihood evaluation for large systems.

A deep learning model speeds up computation of numerous implied volatilities.

problem Frequent computation of numerous implied volatilities using iteration methods like Newton-Raphson reaches processing speed limits.
method Emulated Newton-Raphson method using PyTorch and optimized with TensorRT.
result Up to 1,000 times faster than a benchmark implementation of Newton-Raphson.

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental building block for large scale computations arising in various applications, including machine learning. There has been significant recent interest in using coding to speed up distributed matrix multiplication, that are robust to stragglers (i.e., machines that may perform slower …

2019-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Coded Federated Learning speeds up training in edge computing networks.

problem Slow convergence in Federated Learning due to heterogeneity and stochastic fluctuations.
method Exploiting statistical properties of compute and communication delays, distributed kernel embedding, and random Fourier features.
result Significant performance gains for CodedFedL in distributed non-linear regression and classification problems.

Improved kernel herding algorithm for faster quadrature rule convergence.

problem Slow convergence speed of standard kernel herding algorithm.
method Improved gradient approximation to obtain sparser solutions.
result The cosine of the angle between negative gradient and approximate gradient determines convergence speed.