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Constrained sequence codes have been widely used in modern communication and data storage systems. Sequences encoded with constrained sequence codes satisfy constraints imposed by the physical channel, hence enabling efficient and reliable transmission of coded symbols. Traditional encoding and decoding of constrained …
Physics-constrained deep learning predicts geophysical dynamics with boundedness.
problem Forecasting geophysical systems with hidden variables and incomplete observations.
method Physics-constrained neural ordinary differential equation (NODE) representations with boundedness constraints.
result The approach generalizes learned dynamics to arbitrary initial conditions.
The paper shows how Lagrangian duality improves deep learning for constrained problems.
problem Learning optimization problems with complex constraints in science and engineering.
method Lagrangian duality applied to deep learning models.
result Lagrangian duality brings significant benefits for constrained learning tasks.
FAVANO improves federated learning for resource-constrained environments.
problem Asynchronous communication in federated learning leads to bias and scalability issues.
method FAVANO is a novel asynchronous federated learning framework for resource-constrained environments.
result FAVANO outperforms existing methods on standard benchmarks.
Extends GENO framework for GPU optimization of constrained ML problems.
problem Constrained optimization in classical machine learning.
method Extends GENO framework to GPU optimization, specifying problems in a modeling language.
result Solvers on GPU outperform state-of-the-art approaches by several orders of magnitude.
Solves online 3D bin packing with deep reinforcement learning under constraints.
problem Challenges of packing items immediately without information and constraints.
method Constrained deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with feasibility predictor.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in online 3D bin packing.
State-constrained offline RL expands RL's learning scope.
problem Batch-constrained offline RL limits policies to seen actions.
method Introduces state-constrained offline RL focusing on state distribution.
result Policy can take high-quality out-of-distribution actions.
Soft-Radial Projection solves gradient saturation in constrained deep learning.
problem Gradient saturation in deep learning models when integrating hard constraints.
method Introduces Soft-Radial Projection, a differentiable layer that maps predictions onto constraint boundaries without rank-deficient Jacobians.
result Improves convergence and solution quality over state-of-the-art methods.
DS2CF-Net learns hierarchical representations with deep coupled factorization and enriched prior.
problem Learning deep hierarchical representations from data.
method Dual-constrained Deep Semi-Supervised Coupled Factorization Network (DS2CF-Net) with enriched prior.
result DS2CF-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance in representation learning and clustering.
This paper benchmarks algorithms for training fair DNNs, addressing real-world fairness constraints.
problem Training deep neural networks with fairness constraints.
method Benchmarking stochastic approximation algorithms for fairness-constrained DNN training.
result Demonstrates the use of a new benchmark for comparing fairness-improving algorithms.
Develops new reinforcement learning methods for complex constrained decision-making problems.
problem Complex constrained decision-making problems with a continuum of constraints.
method Proposes semi-infinitely constrained Markov decision processes (SICMDPs) and two reinforcement learning algorithms: SI-CRL and SI-CPO.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of SI-CRL and SI-CPO in solving complex sequential decision-making tasks.
Deep reinforcement learning under signal temporal logic constraints using Lagrangian relaxationstat.ML
Study uses DRL with Lagrangian relaxation to solve temporal control tasks with STL constraints.
problem Optimal control problems with temporal logic constraints.
method Extended CMDP formulation, Lagrangian relaxation, two-phase constrained DRL algorithm.
result Demonstrated learning performance of the proposed algorithm through simulations.
Paper uses deep learning to price and hedge options in incomplete markets.
problem Incomplete markets lack unique no-arbitrage solutions for pricing and hedging European options.
method Constrained deep learning approach with a single neural network representing option prices and hedging strategies.
result Constrained networks produce superior P&L distributions compared to unconstrained networks.
A new method constrains deep networks during fine-tuning to improve generalization.
problem Improving generalization of fine-tuned deep networks.
method A neural network generalisation bound based on distance from initial weights constrains the hypothesis class to a small sphere.
result Empirical evaluation shows superior generalization performance compared to existing methods.
Deep learning struggles with out-of-distribution data, so this paper tackles domain generalization.
problem Deep learning models fail with out-of-distribution data.
method Formulates domain generalization as a constrained statistical learning problem, then uses nonconvex duality theory to develop an algorithm with convergence guarantees.
result Improves domain generalization by up to 30 percentage points on various benchmarks.
E2Efold predicts RNA secondary structures better than previous methods.
problem RNA secondary structure prediction with constraints.
method End-to-end deep learning model using unrolled algorithms to enforce constraints.
result E2Efold predicts significantly better structures, especially for pseudoknotted structures.
Many practical applications of reinforcement learning constrain agents to learn from a fixed batch of data which has already been gathered, without offering further possibility for data collection. In this paper, we demonstrate that due to errors introduced by extrapolation, standard off-policy deep reinforcement learn…
An SMP-Based Algorithm for Solving the Constrained Utility Maximization Problem via Deep Learningq-fin.CP
New algorithm solves utility maximization with deep learning for constrained problems.
problem Maximizing utility under convex constraints with random coefficients.
method Developed a new algorithm using stochastic maximum principle and deep learning.
result The new algorithm outperforms existing methods in accuracy and applicability.
New method calibrates neural network predictions for better reliability.
problem Improper probability estimates from deep networks leading to unreliable predictions.
method Proposes a constrained optimization approach for a monotonic calibration map.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance across various datasets and models.
AskewSGD : An Annealed interval-constrained Optimisation method to train Quantized Neural Networksstat.ML
AskewSGD optimizes quantized neural networks with interval-constrained optimization.
problem Training deep neural networks with quantized weights.
method Formulates QNN training as smoothed interval-constrained optimization, proposes AskewSGD for solving each subproblem.
result AskewSGD avoids projections and allows infeasible iterates, performs better than state-of-the-art methods.
Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Programming with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)math.OC
A new method uses GANs for robust optimization under uncertain data.
problem Optimizing supply chains under demand uncertainty with ambiguous distributions.
method Generative adversarial networks (GANs) for data-driven distributionally robust chance constrained programming.
result The approach effectively handles uncertain data distributions and improves supply chain optimization.
Modern machine learning algorithms have been adopted in a range of signal-processing applications spanning computer vision, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. Many relevant problems involve subspace-structured features, orthogonality constrained or low-rank constrained objective functions, or sub…
We experimentally achieve a 19% capacity gain per Watt of electrical supply power in a 12-span link by eliminating gain flattening filters and optimizing launch powers using machine learning by deep neural networks in a massively parallel fiber context.
We propose a novel training algorithm for reinforcement learning which combines the strength of deep Q-learning with a constrained optimization approach to tighten optimality and encourage faster reward propagation. Our novel technique makes deep reinforcement learning more practical by drastically reducing the trainin…
Paper uses RL to solve constrained combinatorial optimization problems.
problem Constrained combinatorial optimization problems.
method Extending NCO theory to CMDPs, using RL with penalty signals.
result Proposes a superior method for solving constrained problems.
The high dimensionality of hyperspectral images often results in the degradation of clustering performance. Due to the powerful ability of deep feature extraction and non-linear feature representation, the clustering algorithm based on deep learning has become a hot research topic in the field of hyperspectral remote s…
Paper proposes a bias-constrained deep learning approach to non-linear estimation.
problem Designing unbiased estimators for non-linear models.
method Bias Constrained Estimator (BCE) using deep learning with bias constraints.
result Asymptotic MVUEs with Cramer Rao bound performance.
Review of efficient neural networks for TinyML on resource-constrained devices.
problem Resource constraints on ultra-low power MCUs for deep learning models.
method Model compression, quantization, low-rank factorization, model pruning, hardware acceleration, algorithm-architecture co-design.
result Optimized neural network architectures for minimal resource utilization on MCUs.
Graph-based RKD improves knowledge distillation for resource-constrained systems.
problem Efficiently distill deep learning knowledge for resource-constrained systems.
method Graph-based relative knowledge distillation (RKD) to capture latent space geometry.
result The proposed method achieves better accuracy with the same resource budget.
Deep Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Topic-Layer-Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Riemannian MCMCstat.ML
It is challenging to develop stochastic gradient based scalable inference for deep discrete latent variable models (LVMs), due to the difficulties in not only computing the gradients, but also adapting the step sizes to different latent factors and hidden layers. For the Poisson gamma belief network (PGBN), a recently …
Deep networks learn sparse hierarchical features without CoD.
problem Overparameterized deep networks struggle with the curse of dimensionality.
method Norm-constrained neural networks for sparse compositional functions.
result Deep networks can learn sparse hierarchical features efficiently.
Transfer learning through fine-tuning a pre-trained neural network with an extremely large dataset, such as ImageNet, can significantly accelerate training while the accuracy is frequently bottlenecked by the limited dataset size of the new target task. To solve the problem, some regularization methods, constraining th…
Adaptive sampling method optimizes DNN compression for resource-constrained platforms.
problem Efficiently compressing DNNs for resource-constrained platforms with high accuracy.
method Adaptive sampling using genetic algorithm-inspired operations to optimize hyperparameters.
result Adaptive sampling outperforms rule-based and reinforcement learning methods in compression rate and accuracy.
Colour vision has long fascinated scientists, who have sought to understand both the physiology of the mechanics of colour vision and the psychophysics of colour perception. We consider representations of colour in anatomically constrained convolutional deep neural networks. Following ideas from neuroscience, we classi…
PDE-DKL combines NNs and GPs for high-dimensional PDE problems.
problem High-dimensional PDE problems with scarce data.
method PDE-constrained Deep Kernel Learning (PDE-DKL) framework.
result High accuracy with reduced data requirements.
Many DNN-enabled vision applications constantly operate under severe energy constraints such as unmanned aerial vehicles, Augmented Reality headsets, and smartphones. Designing DNNs that can meet a stringent energy budget is becoming increasingly important. This paper proposes ECC, a framework that compresses DNNs to m…
Bayesian Entropy Neural Networks enforce constraints on deep learning predictions.
problem Deep learning models lack well-defined constraints in their outputs.
method Bayesian Entropy Neural Networks (BENN) using Maximum Entropy principles and the method of multipliers.
result BENN improves model robustness and reliability across various applications.
DRMMs enable flexible conditional sampling for interactive machine learning.
problem Limited flexibility in conditional sampling for deep generative models.
method Proposes Deep Residual Mixture Models (DRMMs) that allow flexible conditional sampling.
result DRMMs enable sampling with arbitrary combinations of conditioning variables and priors.
Paper improves deep learning for instance-level classification from label proportions.
problem Dealing with noisy pseudo-labeling and high-entropy class distributions in LLP.
method Introducing a two-stage training approach with constrained optimization and mixup strategy.
result Significant performance improvement in instance-level classification.
This paper tackles co-design of neural hardware and software to improve efficiency.
problem Designing efficient deep learning systems that consider both hardware and software optimizations together.
method Developed a constrained Bayesian optimization framework to automatically identify profitable design points in the joint hardware/software design space.
result Improved energy-delay product by 18% (ResNet) and 40% (DQN) over hand-tuned systems.
A novel method for efficient CDRL over wireless networks.
problem Challenges in collaborative deep reinforcement learning over wireless networks.
method Semantic-aware heterogeneous federated deep reinforcement learning (HFDRL) algorithm.
result Superior performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
Proposes Constrained Q-learning for reinforcement learning with constraints.
problem Optimizing multiple objectives while adhering to constraints in reinforcement learning.
method Directly restricts the action space in Q-update to learn optimal Q-function for constrained MDP.
result Improves safety and optimality in high-level decision making for autonomous driving.
CoNNTrA trains DNNs with low-power, low-memory constraints.
problem Training deep neural networks on edge computing systems with low power and memory usage.
method Coordinate gradient descent-based approach for training DNNs with constrained learning parameters.
result CoNNTrA models use 32x less memory and have comparable errors to Backpropagation models.
The significant computational requirements of deep learning present a major bottleneck for its large-scale adoption on hardware-constrained IoT-devices. Here, we envision a new paradigm called EdgeAI to address major impediments associated with deploying deep networks at the edge. Specifically, we discuss the existing …
In this paper, we introduce McTorch, a manifold optimization library for deep learning that extends PyTorch. It aims to lower the barrier for users wishing to use manifold constraints in deep learning applications, i.e., when the parameters are constrained to lie on a manifold. Such constraints include the popular orth…
Predictive models can be used for causal inference with feature selection.
problem Limitations of predictive models in interpreting causal relationships.
method Constrained learning process by selecting features according to Pearl's backdoor adjustment criterion.
result Causal models provide near unbiased effect estimates and better generalization.
Probability distributions produced by the cross-entropy loss for ordinal classification problems can possess undesired properties. We propose a straightforward technique to constrain discrete ordinal probability distributions to be unimodal via the use of the Poisson and binomial probability distributions. We evaluate …