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48 results for computational time

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 ↗

Investigates polynomial time algorithms for computing Khovanov homology of braids.

problem Computing Khovanov homology for general braids is intractable.
method Examines polynomial time algorithms for 3-braids and a variation of the scanning algorithm for more general braids.
result Shows that for 3-braids, Khovanov homology can be computed in polynomial time, while for more general braids, it can be computed in polynomial time for bounded homological degrees.

This paper provides a mathematical framework for time-delay reservoir computing.

problem Lack of rigorous mathematical foundations for reservoir computing properties.
method Control-theoretic framework, formal definitions of separation and fading memory, explicit lower bound derivation.
result Established formal definitions and connections to stability notions for time-delay systems.

MindFlayer SGD improves parallel SGD for heterogeneous, random compute times.

problem Minimizing nonconvex functions with heterogeneous, random compute times.
method MindFlayer SGD, designed for stochastic and heterogeneous delays.
result MindFlayer SGD outperforms existing methods in environments with heavy-tailed noise.

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.

Adaptive compute allocation improves model performance by prioritizing harder queries.

problem Inefficiency in allocating test-time compute uniformly across all queries.
method Formulated as a bandit learning problem, proposed adaptive algorithms that estimate query difficulty and allocate compute accordingly.
result Achieved up to 15.29% relative performance improvement on various benchmarks.

Real-time uncertainty estimation for computer vision tasks.

problem Real-time inference of uncertainty in deep learning models.
method Uncertainty-Aware Distribution Distillation method for fast inference.
result Significantly reduced inference time with improved uncertainty and predictive performance.

In this paper, we present an online adaptive PCA algorithm that is able to compute the full dimensional eigenspace per new time-step of sequential data. The algorithm is based on a one-step update rule that considers all second order correlations between previous samples and the new time-step. Our algorithm has O(n) co…

2017-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum computing speeds up analysis of financial stochastic processes.

problem Challenging simulation and analysis of continuous time stochastic processes.
method Established a quantum framework for efficient state preparation and information extraction.
result Extraction of path-dependent and history-sensitive information from stochastic processes efficiently.

Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling servers in distributed computing, with the following limitations: First, they increase decoding complexity. Second, they ignore computations carried out by straggling servers; and they are typically designed to recover the full gradient, and thus, canno…

2018-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes glmnet configuration for better accuracy and efficiency.

problem Inappropriate glmnet configuration leads to inaccurate solutions and increased computation time.
method Data-driven framework using neural networks to predict accuracy and computation time from dataset characteristics and configuration.
result Automatic selection of optimal configuration maximizing accuracy under a time constraint.

Study computes isoperimetric profiles in low-dimensional Riemannian products.

problem Estimating isoperimetric profiles in Riemannian products.
method Symmetrization techniques for product manifolds.
result Explicit lower bounds for isoperimetric profiles in T2imesRnT^2 imes \mathbb{R}^n and T3imesR4T^3 imes \mathbb{R}^4.

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For example, we can use these geodesics to compute the asymptotic translation length, Ni…

2016-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

QAlign improves language model alignment with less compute, outperforming existing methods.

problem Improving language model performance with limited test-time computation.
method QAlign: sampling from optimal aligned distribution using Markov chain Monte Carlo.
result Consistent improvements over existing methods on various benchmarks.

Monte Carlo algorithms simulate some prescribed number of samples, taking some random real time to complete the computations necessary. This work considers the converse: to impose a real-time budget on the computation, which results in the number of samples simulated being random. To complicate matters, the real time t…

2016-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Implicit models can match or exceed explicit models with more test-time compute.

problem Understanding the expressive power and scaling of implicit models.
method Nonparametric analysis of expressive power, mathematical characterization of implicit operators, and test-time scaling experiments.
result Implicit models can progressively express more complex mappings through iteration, matching a richer function class with test-time compute.

Quantum computers can speed up machine learning optimization problems.

problem Long computation times and high resource requirements for classical optimization algorithms in machine learning.
method Developed a mathematical model to leverage quantum parallelism for machine learning.
result Quantum machine learning applied to a 3D time-varying image demonstrated significant speedup.

Quadratic-time algorithm computes stretch factors and foliations for pseudo-Anosov mapping classes.

problem Computing stretch factors and foliations for pseudo-Anosov mapping classes efficiently.
method Quadratic-time algorithm using input word and length as complexity measure.
result First algorithm to compute stretch factors and foliations in sub-exponential time.

We introduce a new, high-throughput, synchronous, distributed, data-parallel, stochastic-gradient-descent learning algorithm. This algorithm uses amortized inference in a compute-cluster-specific, deep, generative, dynamical model to perform joint posterior predictive inference of the mini-batch gradient computation ti…

2018-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New method discovers time series motifs under DTW, significantly reducing computations.

problem Discovering time series motifs under DTW is computationally challenging.
method Exact scalable method using novel lower bounds hierarchy.
result Prunes up to 99.99% of DTW computations under realistic settings.

The paper proposes using path signatures for better inference in time series data.

problem Simulation models with time series data often lack tractable likelihood functions.
method Approximate Bayesian Computation with path signatures to handle sequential data.
result Theoretical guarantees on the resultant posteriors for Bayesian parameter inference.

The study examines how verifier imperfections impact test-time scaling techniques.

problem Understanding how verifier imperfections affect test-time scaling methods.
method Proves the instance-level accuracy of Best-of-N and Rejection Sampling methods using the geometry of the verifier's ROC curve.
result RS outperforms BoN for fixed compute, but both converge to the same accuracy in the infinite-compute limit.

DTS improves inference-time alignment of diffusion models with less compute.

problem Inference-time alignment of diffusion models suffers from inaccurate value estimation and inefficient reuse of past computations.
method Diffusion Tree Sampling (DTS) uses a tree-based approach to propagate terminal rewards and iteratively refine value estimates.
result DTS produces asymptotically exact samples and matches the FID of best-performing baselines with up to 10x less compute.

Deep recurrent neural networks perform well on sequence data and are the model of choice. However, it is a daunting task to decide the structure of the networks, i.e. the number of layers, especially considering different computational needs of a sequence. We propose a layer flexible recurrent neural network with adapt…

2018-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm improves inference-time alignment without reward hacking.

problem Improving quality of responses from language models with limited compute.
method Inference-time alignment, focusing on extttInferenceTimePessimism exttt{InferenceTimePessimism} algorithm.
result Optimal performance and scaling-monotonicity of extttInferenceTimePessimism exttt{InferenceTimePessimism}.

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.

This paper uses QUBO to train machine learning models on quantum computers.

problem Efficiently training machine learning models on quantum computers.
method Formulated three machine learning models (linear regression, SVM, k-means) as QUBO problems.
result Formulations are more efficient or equivalent in time and space complexity to classical methods.

Ringmaster ASGD improves Asynchronous SGD's efficiency under varying worker times.

problem Suboptimal performance of Asynchronous SGD under heterogeneous worker computation times.
method Ringmaster ASGD, a novel Asynchronous SGD method with optimal time complexity.
result Ringmaster ASGD achieves optimal time complexity under arbitrary worker heterogeneity.

New method detects anomalies in computing centers' logs.

problem Anomaly detection in continuously changing log data for predictive maintenance.
method Evolving granular classifiers using Fuzzy-set-Based evolving Modeling and evolving Granular Neural Network.
result Classification model prioritizes maintenance based on anomaly severity.

One of the most compelling features of Gaussian process (GP) regression is its ability to provide well-calibrated posterior distributions. Recent advances in inducing point methods have sped up GP marginal likelihood and posterior mean computations, leaving posterior covariance estimation and sampling as the remaining …

2018-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

G-Net uses deep learning for complex counterfactual outcome prediction.

problem Estimating counterfactual outcomes under dynamic treatment strategies.
method G-Net is a sequential deep learning framework for G-computation.
result G-Net can handle complex temporal data and provide accurate treatment effects.

Linear time algorithm for random walk kernels on sparse graphs.

problem Efficient computation of general random walk kernels for large graphs.
method Sample dependent random walks to compute graph embeddings without direct graph product.
result Up to 27x faster and scalable to 128x larger graphs than previous methods.

We propose in this paper a differentiable learning loss between time series, building upon the celebrated dynamic time warping (DTW) discrepancy. Unlike the Euclidean distance, DTW can compare time series of variable size and is robust to shifts or dilatations across the time dimension. To compute DTW, one typically so…

2017-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Federated learning optimizes task and resource allocation in balloon networks.

problem Minimizing energy and time consumption in task computation and transmission.
method SVM-based federated learning algorithm to dynamically adjust user associations, service sequences, and task allocations.
result Reduces the weighted sum of energy and time consumption by up to 16.1%.