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48 results for distributed summation

Improved privacy-preserving summation protocol with fewer messages.

problem Achieving efficient differential privacy in multi-party summation.
method Combining secure shuffling with Laplace mechanism in the shuffle model.
result Protocol with O(1/ε)O(1/ε) error and O(log(n/δ))O(\log(n/δ)) messages per party.

Kernel density estimation (KDE) is a popular statistical technique for estimating the underlying density distribution with minimal assumptions. Although they can be shown to achieve asymptotic estimation optimality for any input distribution, cross-validating for an optimal parameter requires significant computation do…

2011-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The study shows how certain ODEs and integrals are regular under Borel summation.

problem Analyzing the regularity of solutions to ODEs and integration problems.
method Using geometric perspective on Laplace and Borel transforms, the study examines level 1 ODEs and exponential period integrals over Lefschetz thimbles.
result Solutions of certain ODEs and integration problems are Borel regular.

Mathematical structures link Gromov-Witten to Donaldson-Thomas invariants.

problem Understanding non-perturbative topological string theory.
method Borel summation of Gromov-Witten potential and analysis of Stokes phenomena.
result Stokes phenomena encode Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the resolved conifold.

This paper solves the open problem of computing Bayes optimal prediction for decision trees using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method.

problem Computing the Bayes optimal prediction for decision trees is infeasible due to an infeasible summation over all division patterns of a feature space.
method Solved the open problem using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method with adaptively tuned step size.
result Computed the Bayes optimal prediction for decision trees using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method.

New LVMs optimize any exponential family distribution without specific assumptions.

problem Optimizing latent variable models with non-Gaussian observables.
method Generic optimization using EM approach for exponential family distributions.
result Concise parameter update equations applicable to various data types.

Improved greedy 2-coordinate updates for optimization problems with constraints.

problem Minimizing smooth functions subject to constraints.
method Exploiting a connection to steepest descent in the 1-norm, we give faster convergence rates and efficient computation.
result Greedy selection converges faster than random selection and can be computed in O(nlogn)O(n \log n) time.

Stochastic gradient descent updates parameters with summation gradient computed from a random data batch. This summation will lead to unbalanced training process if the data we obtained is unbalanced. To address this issue, this paper takes the error variance and error mean both into consideration. The adaptively adjus…

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide faster algorithms for the problem of Gaussian summation, which occurs in many machine learning methods. We develop two new extensions - an O(Dp) Taylor expansion for the Gaussian kernel with rigorous error bounds and a new error control scheme integrating any arbitrary approximation method - within the best …

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum dilogarithm function proven from a linear difference equation.

problem Proving Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm from a linear difference equation.
method Proved Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm using Borel summation of a formal power series solution of a linear difference equation.
result Borel summation of a formal power series solution produces Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm.

We wish to compute the gradient of an expectation over a finite or countably infinite sample space having KK \leq \infty categories. When KK is indeed infinite, or finite but very large, the relevant summation is intractable. Accordingly, various stochastic gradient estimators have been proposed. In this paper, we de…

2018-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

For an eigenfunction of the Laplacian on a hyperbolic Riemann surface, the coefficients of the Fourier expansion are described as intertwining functionals. All intertwiners are classified. A refined growth estimate for the coefficients is given and a summation formula is proved.

2006-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep learning is extremely computationally intensive, and hardware vendors have responded by building faster accelerators in large clusters. Training deep learning models at petaFLOPS scale requires overcoming both algorithmic and systems software challenges. In this paper, we discuss three systems-related optimization…

2018-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove an explicit formula of the Berezin star product on Kaehler manifolds. The formula is expressed as a summation over certain strongly connected digraphs. The proof relies on a combinatorial interpretation of Englis' work on the asymptotic expansion of the Laplace integral.

2011-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Finet uses FBN for efficient, lightweight neural networks.

problem Building efficient neural networks with limited computational resources.
method Introduces Fine-grained Batch Normalization (FBN) and a novel light-weight network (Finet) that combines FBN with standard convolution.
result Finet achieves state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet classification with reduced computational complexity.

A system for federated learning with private data, adding discrete Gaussian noise and secure aggregation.

problem Training models on private data distributed across devices while ensuring privacy.
method Discretizes data, adds discrete Gaussian noise, and uses secure aggregation to protect privacy.
result Matches the accuracy of central differential privacy with less than 16 bits of precision per value.

New techniques prove quantum modularity for various functions.

problem Proving quantum modularity of false theta functions and related series.
method Developed techniques including Poisson summation formula and modular series framework.
result Unified approach to proving quantum modularity for various functions.

This paper develops coding techniques to reduce the running time of distributed learning tasks. It characterizes the fundamental tradeoff to compute gradients (and more generally vector summations) in terms of three parameters: computation load, straggler tolerance and communication cost. It further gives an explicit c…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

A lightweight model predicts IT system KPIs from historical data.

problem Predicting future KPIs of interconnected IT systems is hard due to diverse and changing components.
method A weighted heterogeneous ensemble method combining neural network and mean predictor.
result Achieved R2R^2 scores of 0.10 and 0.15 on test data.

In this paper, we study some vanishing identities for Gromov-Witten invariants conjectured by K. Liu and H. Xu. We will prove these conjectures in the case that the summation range is large compare to genus. In fact, in such cases, we can obtain a vanishing identity which is stronger than their conjectures. Moreover we…

2008-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper is an introduction to Khovanov homology, starting with the Kauffman bracket state summation, emphasizing the Bar-Natan Canopoloy and tangle cobordism approach. The paper discusses a simplicial approach to Khovanov homology and a quantum model for it so that the graded Euler characteristic that produces the J…

2011-07-07abs ↗pdf ↗

We examine random variables in the power law/regularly varying class with stochastic tail exponent, the exponent αα having its own distribution. We show the effect of stochasticity of αα on the expectation and higher moments of the random variable. For instance, the moments of a right-tailed or right-asymmetric varia…

2016-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles non-cumulative objectives in reinforcement learning and proposes modifications to existing algorithms.

problem Optimizing objectives that are not naturally expressed as summations of rewards in various fields.
method The paper modifies the Bellman optimality equation to handle non-cumulative objectives by replacing summation with a generalized operation.
result The modified Bellman updates can converge to the globally optimal solution under certain conditions.

Improves accuracy of SMCI estimators without expanding sum regions.

problem Intractable multiple summations in evaluating expectations on the Ising model.
method Combining multiple SMCI estimators using generalized least squares (GLS).
result The proposed method can improve accuracy without combinatorial explosion.

The paper develops a method for forecasting power consumption at various levels of aggregation.

problem Forecasting power consumption at different levels of household aggregation.
method Three-step process: feature generation, aggregation, and projection.
result The method provides theoretical guarantees on prediction error and performs well on real data.

F. Jaeger presented the two-variable Kauffman polynomial of an unoriented link L as a weighted sum of HOMFLY-PT polynomials of oriented links associated with L. Murakami, Ohtsuki and Yamada (MOY) used planar graphs and a recursive evaluation of these graphs to construct a state model for the sl(n)-link invariant (a one…

2013-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

CAMul forecasts with calibrated and accurate multi-view time-series data.

problem Combining diverse data sources for reliable time-series forecasting.
method CAMul integrates multi-modal data views dynamically, assigning importance based on context.
result CAMul outperforms state-of-the-art models by 25% in accuracy and calibration.