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48 results for context compression

LLMs compress financial texts, but distort decision-making.

problem LLMs compress financial texts, altering decision-making.
method Analyzed two diagnostic patterns: decontextualization and model dependency. Proposed Agentic Context Compression.
result LLM-compressed financial texts alter decision-making.

We compress large neural networks for quick adaptation to specific contexts.

problem How to quickly adapt a pretrained large neural network to specific contexts.
method Propose a Bayesian hypernetwork framework to compress the network and encourage sparsity.
result Generated compressed networks are significantly smaller than baseline methods.

New techniques save bits in image compression with upsampling.

problem Lack of context dependence in current image compression methods with upsampling.
method Simple, inexpensive techniques exploiting context to predict Laplace distribution parameters.
result Average savings of 0.645 bits per difference, up to 1.489 bits.

Deep neural networks have become commonplace in the domain of reinforcement learning, but are often expensive in terms of the number of parameters needed. While compressing deep neural networks has of late assumed great importance to overcome this drawback, little work has been done to address this problem in the conte…

2019-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

FibQuant improves KV-cache compression for long-context inference.

problem Memory traffic bottleneck in long-context inference due to KV cache growth.
method Introduces FibQuant, a universal vector quantizer that combines Beta-quantile radii, Fibonacci/Roberts-Kronecker directions, and Lloyd-Max refinement.
result FibQuant achieves high compression rates with minimal loss in attention cosine similarity.

We study and provide exposition to several phenomena that are related to the perceptron's compression. One theme concerns modifications of the perceptron algorithm that yield better guarantees on the margin of the hyperplane it outputs. These modifications can be useful in training neural networks as well, and we demon…

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we present a novel approach for fine-tuning a decoder-side neural network in the context of image compression, such that the weight-updates are better compressible. At encoder side, we fine-tune a pre-trained artifact removal network on target data by using a compression objective applied on the weight-u…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A framework infers causal direction from symbolic sequences using compression measures.

problem Inferring causal direction from two observed discrete symbolic sequences.
method Lossless compressors for inferring context-free grammars (CFGs) and quantifying compression extent.
result Grammar inferred from one sequence better compresses the other sequence, indicating causal direction.

Compressing word embeddings is important for deploying NLP models in memory-constrained settings. However, understanding what makes compressed embeddings perform well on downstream tasks is challenging---existing measures of compression quality often fail to distinguish between embeddings that perform well and those th…

2019-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Compressed LLM embeddings improve noisy regression tasks without overfitting.

problem Noisy regression tasks with high signal-to-noise ratios.
method Comparison of embedding compression techniques using autoencoder hidden representations.
result Compression improves performance on noisy tasks like financial return prediction.

WoodFisher improves neural network compression efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficiently estimating inverse Hessian for neural network optimization.
method WoodFisher: a method to compute a faithful and efficient estimate of the inverse Hessian.
result WoodFisher significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods for pruning neural networks.

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently been achieving state-of-the-art performance on a variety of computer vision related tasks. However, their computational cost limits their ability to be implemented in embedded systems with restricted resources or strict latency constraints. Model compression has therefore been …

2019-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method compresses conditional distributions of labelled data.

problem No existing method directly compresses the conditional distribution of labelled data.
method Introduce Average Maximum Conditional Mean Discrepancy (AMCMD), derive a closed form estimator, and extend Kernel Herding (KH) to Average Conditional Kernel Herding (ACKH).
result Directly compressing conditional distributions outperforms joint distribution compression and greedy selection.

This letter proposes a dictionary learning algorithm for blind one bit compressed sensing. In the blind one bit compressed sensing framework, the original signal to be reconstructed from one bit linear random measurements is sparse in an unknown domain. In this context, the multiplication of measurement matrix $\Ab$ an…

2015-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

CSDM integrates compressed sensing into diffusion models for faster data generation.

problem Efficiently generating synthetic data in high-dimensional spaces.
method Integrating compressed sensing into diffusion models (CSDM) to reduce dimensionality and accelerate inference.
result Achieves provably faster convergence and better latent space dimension selection.

The paper uses information geometry to analyze model compression techniques, focusing on operator factorization.

problem Efficiently compressing deep learning models for resource-constrained devices.
method Information geometry applied to model compression, focusing on operator factorization.
result Iterative methods are crucial for fine-tuning models, especially when compression ratios are fixed.

This paper compresses neural networks by permuting and quantizing weights.

problem Efficiently compressing large neural networks for resource-constrained platforms.
method Permuting and quantizing weights, connecting to rate-distortion theory, and using annealed quantization.
result Significant compression with minimal accuracy loss, e.g., 40-70% reduction in gap with uncompressed model.

Unified bounds linking compressibility, fractal dimensions, and mutual information.

problem Understanding generalization in stochastic learning algorithms.
method Rate-distortion theory applied to machine learning generalization.
result Unified bounds linking compressibility, fractal dimensions, and mutual information.

More accurate machine learning models often demand more computation and memory at test time, making them difficult to deploy on CPU- or memory-constrained devices. Teacher-student compression (TSC), also known as distillation, alleviates this burden by training a less expensive student model to mimic the expensive teac…

2018-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Decentralized training of deep learning models is a key element for enabling data privacy and on-device learning over networks, as well as for efficient scaling to large compute clusters. As current approaches suffer from limited bandwidth of the network, we propose the use of communication compression in the decentral…

2019-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A two-step approach efficiently selects hyperparameters for FCMs.

problem Efficiently selecting hyperparameters for FCMs in a computationally expensive process.
method Two-step sequential approach: first estimate context length k, then estimate α.
result The proposed method achieves comparable compression performance to exhaustive search but with reduced computational cost.

This book presents a methodology and philosophy of empirical science based on large scale lossless data compression. In this view a theory is scientific if it can be used to build a data compression program, and it is valuable if it can compress a standard benchmark database to a small size, taking into account the len…

2011-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Understanding how funding and 4H context regulate crypto markets.

problem Analyzing the chaotic appearance of financial markets.
method Observing interactions between market context and capital conditions in the 4H timeframe.
result Ranges in crypto markets are strategic positioning by informed participants, not indecision.

New approach uses compressible dynamics to train deep models efficiently.

problem Efficient training of deep overparameterized models with low-rank structures.
method Leveraging low-dimensional structures and compressible dynamics within model parameters.
result Improved training efficiency and reduced overfitting in language models.

Matrix sketching is a recently developed data compression technique. An input matrix A is efficiently approximated with a smaller matrix B, so that B preserves most of the properties of A up to some guaranteed approximation ratio. In so doing numerical operations on big data sets become faster. Sketching algorithms gen…

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework uses directed information to efficiently select context chunks.

problem Efficiently selecting relevant context chunks for query understanding.
method Directed Information γγ-covering framework, formulated as a γγ-cover problem, with a greedy algorithm for context selection.
result The γγ-covering algorithm provides clear advantages in hard-decision regimes like context compression and single-slot prompt selection.

We introduce a new parameterization method for deep learning layers using spectral tensor train decomposition.

problem Efficiency and stability in deep learning models with weight matrix compression.
method Spectral Tensor Train Parameterization (STTP) of weight matrices.
result Improved compression and training stability in neural networks.

Learning parameters from voluminous data can be prohibitive in terms of memory and computational requirements. We propose a "compressive learning" framework where we estimate model parameters from a sketch of the training data. This sketch is a collection of generalized moments of the underlying probability distributio…

2016-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗