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DG separates successes and failures by gating updates with advantage and surprisal.

problem Negative learning from surprising data in distributed reinforcement learning.
method DG gates each update with the product of advantage and surprisal, suppressing failures and preserving successes.
result DG outperforms other methods in various challenging reinforcement learning tasks.

Language models fail to execute simple steps, showing gating and binding errors.

problem Procedural hallucinations in language models, failing to execute simple steps.
method Analyzed long-context binding tasks, identifying gating and binding errors.
result Procedural errors are due to gating and binding failures, with recency bias contributing to the latter.

Sensor fusion is a key technology that integrates various sensory inputs to allow for robust decision making in many applications such as autonomous driving and robot control. Deep neural networks have been adopted for sensor fusion in a body of recent studies. Among these, the so-called netgated architecture was propo…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

DIVI clusters noisy high-dimensional data with stable feature gating.

problem Challenging clustering in high-dimensional noisy data.
method Data-informed variational clustering framework combining global feature gating and adaptive structure growth.
result DIVI performs competitively under severe feature noise and remains computationally feasible.

Classifier-based AI safety gates fail in self-improvement, even with advanced verification methods.

problem Maintaining reliable oversight of AI systems as they improve over iterations.
method Comprehensive empirical testing on neural controllers and MuJoCo benchmarks, using various classifiers and verification methods.
result Classifier-based safety gates fail in maintaining reliable oversight, even with advanced verification methods.

Quantum codes linked to abelian varieties, providing mathematical rigor.

problem Quantum error correction through complex abelian varieties.
method Mathematical formulation of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes using abelian varieties.
result Asymptotic isometry of encoding, precise gate realizations, and failure probability optimization.

Proposes integrating global and local entropy for more reliable LLMs.

problem Uncertainty in large language models (LLMs) leads to unreliable predictions.
method Measures global uncertainty from hidden-state matrices and local uncertainty from tokens, combining them via a multiplicative gate.
result Global-Local Uncertainty (GLU) outperforms unsupervised baselines across multiple models and benchmarks.

The paper studies 4-qubit Clifford states and their properties.

problem Understanding the set and properties of 4-qubit Clifford states.
method Analyzing the 293760 4-qubit Clifford states, splitting them into 18 groups, and studying the action of CNOT gates and local gates.
result There are 293760 4-qubit Clifford states with specific entanglement entropies, and any pair can be connected with local gates and at most 3 CNOT gates.

Improved logistic MoE with sigmoid gate shows better sample efficiency.

problem Improving sample efficiency in logistic MoE models.
method Comprehensive analysis of multinomial logistic MoE with modified sigmoid gate, incorporating temperature parameter and using Euclidean score.
result The sigmoid gate leads to lower sample complexity than softmax gate for both parameter and expert estimation.

Sigmoid gating is more sample efficient than softmax in mixture of experts.

problem Softmax gating leads to unnecessary competition among experts, causing representation collapse.
method Theoretical analysis of a regression framework with mixture of experts, identifying identifiability conditions and convergence rates.
result Sigmoid gating requires fewer samples to achieve the same expert estimation error as softmax gating.

In quantum computation, series of quantum gates have to be arranged in a predefined sequence that led to a quantum circuit in order to solve a particular problem. What if the sequence of quantum gates is known but both the problem to be solved and the outcome of the so defined quantum circuit remain in the shadow? This…

2015-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers for binary decisions are sensitive to evidence order, leading to unreliable outcomes.

problem Order sensitivity in Transformers for binary decisions leads to unreliable outcomes.
method Formalized an expectation-realization gap and developed QMV and EDFL bounds.
result Uniform permutation mixtures reduce dispersion and improve reliability.

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) infers the long term dependency through a cell state maintained by the input and the forget gate structures, which models a gate output as a value in [0,1] through a sigmoid function. However, due to the graduality of the sigmoid function, the sigmoid gate is not flexible in representing m…

2019-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Gated attention improves model curvature, enhancing performance on nonlinear tasks.

problem Understanding the geometric implications of gating in attention mechanisms.
method Modeling attention outputs as Gaussian distributions and analyzing Fisher--Rao geometry.
result Gated attention enables non-flat geometries, including positively curved manifolds.

Gated attention improves performance by using a hierarchical mixture of experts.

problem Improving performance of self-attention mechanisms in Transformers.
method Rigorously show that gated attention can be modeled as a hierarchical mixture of experts, providing a theoretical justification for its benefits.
result Gated attention is more sample-efficient than multi-head self-attention, requiring fewer data points to achieve the same estimation error.

Given the success of the gated recurrent unit, a natural question is whether all the gates of the long short-term memory (LSTM) network are necessary. Previous research has shown that the forget gate is one of the most important gates in the LSTM. Here we show that a forget-gate-only version of the LSTM with chrono-ini…

2018-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved HMoE models using Laplace gating function enhance expert specialization and performance.

problem Improving performance of hierarchical mixture of experts models.
method Used Laplace gating function instead of Softmax in hierarchical mixture of experts models.
result Laplace gating function accelerates expert convergence and enhances specialization.

The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that these GRU-RNN variant models perform as well as the original GRU RNN model while…

2017-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyzes communication constraints in MoE architectures using information theory.

problem Communication constraints in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
method Developed a rate-distortion characterization of finite-rate gating in MoE architectures using information theory.
result Yielded capacity-aware limits for communication-constrained MoE systems.

Bayesian methods have been successfully applied to sparsify weights of neural networks and to remove structure units from the networks, e. g. neurons. We apply and further develop this approach for gated recurrent architectures. Specifically, in addition to sparsification of individual weights and neurons, we propose t…

2018-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper connects MoE and self-attention, proposing active-attention.

problem Improving efficiency and performance of self-attention mechanisms.
method Established connection between MoE and self-attention, analyzed quadratic gating functions, proposed active-attention mechanism.
result Active-attention outperforms standard self-attention in various tasks.

Solves challenges in estimating parameters of softmax gating Gaussian mixture models.

problem Identifiability issues and complex interactions in Gaussian mixture of experts.
method Proposes novel Voronoi loss functions and establishes convergence rates of MLE.
result Connects convergence rate of MLE to a solvability problem of polynomial equations.

A major contributing factor to the recent advances in deep neural networks is structural units that let sensory information and gradients to propagate easily. Gating is one such structure that acts as a flow control. Gates are employed in many recent state-of-the-art recurrent models such as LSTM and GRU, and feedforwa…

2016-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, a lot of techniques were developed to sparsify the weights of neural networks and to remove networks' structure units, e.g. neurons. We adjust the existing sparsification approaches to the gated recurrent architectures. Specifically, in addition to the sparsification of weights and neurons, we propose sparsif…

2019-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper establishes convergence rates for MoE models in classification problems.

problem Understanding the behavior of MoE models in classification settings.
method Established convergence rates for density and parameter estimation in softmax gating multinomial logistic MoE models.
result Parameter estimation rates are significantly improved with a novel modified softmax gating function.

New insights into the top-K sparse softmax gating function for deep learning.

problem Understanding the theoretical effects of the top-K sparse softmax gating function on density and parameter estimations.
method Using a Gaussian mixture of experts, novel loss functions, and theoretical analysis.
result The convergence rates of density and parameter estimations are parametric under certain conditions, but slow under over-specified models.

In order to quantize the gate parameters of the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) neural network model with almost no recognition performance degraded, a new quantization method named Quantization Loss Re-Learn Method is proposed in this paper. The method does lossy quantization on gate parameters during training iteration…

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for differentiable structured sparsity improves neural network performance and sparsity.

problem Non-differentiability of structured sparsity penalties in neural networks.
method Introducing DD-Gating, a differentiable approach to structured overparameterization.
result The DD-Gating objective converges to the L2,2/DL_{2,2/D}-regularized loss and induces sparse learning dynamics.

The paper analyzes the role of ReLU gates in deep learning networks.

problem Understanding the role of gates in deep learning networks.
method Developed neural path features (NPF) and neural path values (NPV) to characterize the active sub-networks during training.
result The neural path kernel associated with NPFs is a fundamental quantity that characterizes the information stored in the gates of a DNN.

The paper analyzes convergence rates of softmax gating in MoE models.

problem The effectiveness and scalability of machine learning models using MoE.
method Convergence analysis of parameter and expert estimation under MoE with softmax gating and its variants.
result Theoretical results show polynomially many data points are needed for strong identifiability conditions, while exponential points are required for linear experts.

Inference-Time Scaling can be extended to domains prone to systematic failure using intrinsic statistics.

problem Scaling inference time in domains prone to systematic failure
method Intrinsic Selection (iS), Intrinsic Particle Filtering (iPF), and Particle Distillation (dPF)
result Intrinsic Selection improves engineering design selection by 20% and pass@1 by 6.1 points on average.

In this work, we propose a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture. The proposed RNN, gated-feedback RNN (GF-RNN), extends the existing approach of stacking multiple recurrent layers by allowing and controlling signals flowing from upper recurrent layers to lower layers using a global gating unit for each pai…

2015-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Gating is a key feature in modern neural networks including LSTMs, GRUs and sparsely-gated deep neural networks. The backbone of such gated networks is a mixture-of-experts layer, where several experts make regression decisions and gating controls how to weigh the decisions in an input-dependent manner. Despite having …

2019-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for feature fusion in U-Net decoders using difference-based gating.

problem Precise fusion of high-level semantics and low-level details in U-Net decoder reconstruction.
method Proposes two difference-based gating approaches: Feature-difference gating (FDG) and Entropy-difference gating (EDG).
result Both FDG and EDG methods outperform existing attention-based fusion methods, with EDG showing superior performance.

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is one of the most widely used recurrent structures in sequence modeling. It aims to use gates to control information flow (e.g., whether to skip some information or not) in the recurrent computations, although its practical implementation based on soft gates only partially achieves this g…

2018-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepSeekMoE improves language model efficiency with shared experts and normalized gating.

problem Improving sample efficiency in language model architectures.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of shared experts and normalized sigmoid gating.
result Theoretical and empirical evidence of improved sample efficiency with shared experts and normalized gating.

This paper introduces channel gating, a dynamic, fine-grained, and hardware-efficient pruning scheme to reduce the computation cost for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Channel gating identifies regions in the features that contribute less to the classification result, and skips the computation on a subset of the …

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗