Memory bandwidth bottleneck is a major challenges in processing machine learning (ML) algorithms. In-memory acceleration has potential to address this problem; however, it needs to address two challenges. First, in-memory accelerator should be general enough to support a large set of different ML algorithms. Second, it…
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Special issue honors Stanley Deser, focusing on advanced physics topics.
problem None explicitly stated in the abstract.
method Collection of articles in memory of Stanley Deser.
result No specific key result mentioned in the abstract.
Innovative neural networks reduce memory usage for efficient, accurate segmentation.
problem Efficiently segmenting large graphs with limited memory.
method Iterative neural networks with loops and multiple outputs.
result State-of-the-art semantic segmentation results on demanding datasets.
Trojans can be inserted into deep neural networks without altering training data.
problem Inserting malicious code into deep learning models without changing training data.
method Patches model parameters in memory to achieve desired behavior on specific inputs.
result Efficient patches can induce trojan behavior with minimal risk of detection.
RIn-Close_CVC2: an even more efficient enumerative algorithm for biclustering of numerical datasetscs.LG
RIn-Close_CVC is an efficient (take polynomial time per bicluster), complete (find all maximal biclusters), correct (all biclusters attend the user-defined level of consistency) and non-redundant (all the obtained biclusters are maximal and the same bicluster is not enumerated more than once) enumerative algorithm for …
A brain-inspired spiking Transformer reduces energy consumption and enhances interpretability.
problem Energy inefficiency and lack of interpretability in Transformer models.
method Spiking STDP Transformer using spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) for self-attention.
result Achieves 94.35% and 78.08% accuracy on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets respectively, with 88.47% energy reduction.
Improved accuracy in neural networks using CTF memory with RPU.
problem Challenges in achieving high accuracy in neural networks using in-memory computing.
method Exploring the trade-off between conductance change range and linearity in CTF memory for RPU-based matrix operations.
result Achieved accuracy of 97.9% on MNIST dataset, 89.1% and 70.5% on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.
We propose two optimization techniques to minimize memory usage and computation while meeting system timing constraints for real-time classification in wearable systems. Our method derives a hierarchical classifier structure for Support Vector Machine (SVM) in order to reduce the amount of computations, based on the pr…
We propose an algorithm for inexpensive gradient-based hyperparameter optimization that combines the implicit function theorem (IFT) with efficient inverse Hessian approximations. We present results about the relationship between the IFT and differentiating through optimization, motivating our algorithm. We use the pro…
We propose a new algorithm for training neural networks with binary activations and multi-level weights, which enables efficient processing-in-memory circuits with embedded nonvolatile memories (eNVM). Binary activations obviate costly DACs and ADCs. Multi-level weights leverage multi-level eNVM cells. Compared to exis…
Improved API to achieve optimal error bound and query complexity in local planning.
problem Efficient local planning in discounted MDPs with linear approximation.
method Confident Approximate Policy Iteration (CAPI) for stationary policies, applying to local access simulators.
result Achieves optimal accuracy and query complexity bounds, improving over API.
In the current context of data explosion, online techniques that do not require storing all data in memory are indispensable to routinely perform tasks like principal component analysis (PCA). Recursive algorithms that update the PCA with each new observation have been studied in various fields of research and found wi…
We introduce a general method for improving the convergence rate of gradient-based optimizers that is easy to implement and works well in practice. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in a range of optimization problems by applying it to stochastic gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent with Nesterov …
Deep RNNs compute American option prices and deltas efficiently.
problem Computing prices and deltas of high-dimensional American options.
method Two deep RNNs, one for price and one for delta, learn over spacetime.
result Linear time and constant memory cost compared to feedforward networks.
Plan2Vec learns image representations without labels, improving control tasks.
problem Learning image representations without labeled data.
method Constructs a weighted graph using near-neighbor distances and extrapolates to global embedding.
result Plan2Vec achieves accurate long-term value estimates in control tasks with reduced computational and memory costs.
Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is a workhorse in machine learning, yet its slow convergence can be a computational bottleneck. Variance reduction techniques such as SAG, SVRG and SAGA have been proposed to overcome this weakness, achieving linear convergence. However, these methods are either based on computations o…
Neural networks using transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated great power and flexibility in modeling sequences of many types. One of the core components of transformer networks is the attention layer, which allows contextual information to be exchanged among sequence elements. While many of the prev…
Garside groups and geometrymath.GR
Invites geometers to Garside theory for mapping class groups.
problem None explicitly stated, but related to geometric group theory.
method Garside theory applied to mapping class groups.
result No specific key result mentioned in the abstract.
Paper explores reducing precision in SVM for faster text classification.
problem Efficiency in multi-class text classification training.
method Comparison of SVM trained with reduced precision (16-bit, half) vs original.
result Reduced precision training maintains text classification accuracy.
Service-induced congestion in memory-constrained LLM serving
problem Service-induced congestion in memory-constrained large language model (LLM) serving
method Developing a discrete-time dynamical model of memory-constrained LLM inference
result The system converges to a unique worst-case limit cycle that is asymptotically stable outside a Lebesgue-measure-zero exact-capture set, with throughput losses as large as 50%.
Index structures are important for efficient data access, which have been widely used to improve the performance in many in-memory systems. Due to high in-memory overheads, traditional index structures become difficult to process the explosive growth of data, let alone providing low latency and high throughput performa…
Current popular methods for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprint (MRF) recovery are bottlenecked by the heavy storage and computation requirements of a dictionary-matching (DM) step due to the growing size and complexity of the fingerprint dictionaries in multi-parametric quantitative MRI applications. In this paper we study…
The development of cluster computing frameworks has allowed practitioners to scale out various statistical estimation and machine learning algorithms with minimal programming effort. This is especially true for machine learning problems whose objective function is nicely separable across individual data points, such as…
Paper improves GNN inference speed and memory usage.
problem Scalability issues in GNNs during inference.
method Graph coarsening techniques for faster inference.
result Significant reduction in inference time and memory usage.
Improved EXACT strategy reduces GNN memory consumption and runtime.
problem Efficiently training large-scale GNNs with reduced memory usage.
method Block-wise quantization of intermediate activation maps with improved variance minimization.
result Further reduction in memory consumption (>15%) and runtime speedup (5%) with similar performance trade-offs.
Optimal Time Complexity Algorithms for Computing General Random Walk Graph Kernels on Sparse Graphscs.LG
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.
Paper bounds the minimal rank for kernel ridge regression approximations.
problem Efficient memory and computation for kernel ridge regression.
method Lower bound on minimal rank for reliable prediction power.
result Nyström method's computational cost is almost linear in sample size.
When training large machine learning models with many variables or parameters, a single machine is often inadequate since the model may be too large to fit in memory, while training can take a long time even with stochastic updates. A natural recourse is to turn to distributed cluster computing, in order to harness add…
Novel algorithm speeds up log-determinant estimation for large matrices.
problem Efficiently estimating log-determinants of large positive definite matrices under memory constraints.
method Hierarchical algorithm based on block-wise computation of LDL decomposition.
result Accurate estimation of NTK log-determinants from a tiny fraction of the full dataset.
Rewards are sparse in the real world and most of today's reinforcement learning algorithms struggle with such sparsity. One solution to this problem is to allow the agent to create rewards for itself - thus making rewards dense and more suitable for learning. In particular, inspired by curious behaviour in animals, obs…
Neural network learning is usually time-consuming since backpropagation needs to compute full gradients and backpropagate them across multiple layers. Despite its success of existing works in accelerating propagation through sparseness, the relevant theoretical characteristics remain under-researched and empirical stud…
Automatic differentiation is involved for long in applied mathematics as an alternative to finite difference to improve the accuracy of numerical computation of derivatives. Each time a numerical minimization is involved, automatic differentiation can be used. In between formal derivation and standard numerical schemes…
Study improves neural network performance in sequential learning for image classification.
problem Improving neural network performance in sequential learning for image classification.
method Evaluation of approaches for computing prequential description lengths, proposing forward-calibration and replay-streams.
result Improved description lengths for image classification datasets, outperforming previous results.
Idioms pose problems to almost all Machine Translation systems. This type of language is very frequent in day-to-day language use and cannot be simply ignored. The recent interest in memory augmented models in the field of Language Modelling has aided the systems to achieve good results by bridging long-distance depend…
Natural spatiotemporal processes can be highly non-stationary in many ways, e.g. the low-level non-stationarity such as spatial correlations or temporal dependencies of local pixel values; and the high-level variations such as the accumulation, deformation or dissipation of radar echoes in precipitation forecasting. Fr…
Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been widely used in information retrieval for tasks ranging from smoothing and feedback methods to tools for exploratory search and discovery. However, classical methods for inferring topic models do not scale up to the massive size of today's publicly availab…
Memory-augmented neural networks consisting of a neural controller and an external memory have shown potentials in long-term sequential learning. Current RAM-like memory models maintain memory accessing every timesteps, thus they do not effectively leverage the short-term memory held in the controller. We hypothesize t…
SpeqNets improve graph neural networks by scaling and adapting to graph sparsity.
problem Graph neural networks struggle with permutation-equivariant functions and scalability to large graphs.
method Introducing sparsity-aware, permutation-equivariant graph networks with heuristics for graph isomorphism.
result Significantly improved predictive performance and reduced computation times compared to existing methods.
Huge scale machine learning problems are nowadays tackled by distributed optimization algorithms, i.e. algorithms that leverage the compute power of many devices for training. The communication overhead is a key bottleneck that hinders perfect scalability. Various recent works proposed to use quantization or sparsifica…
On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks. This work aims to bridge the recent algorithmic progress in training Binary Neural Networks and Spiking Neural Networks - both of which are driven by the same m…
HDP-VFL hybridizes DP for VFL, reducing privacy costs.
problem Privacy-preserving collaborative learning from vertically partitioned data.
method Hybrid DP framework combining HE and MPC for VFL.
result Achieves DP and JDP with negligible training time and accuracy trade-offs.
Adapting functional gradients improves FGD's practicality and theoretical guarantees.
problem Implementing FGD in practice due to infinite-dimensional functional gradients.
method Adapting the representation of functional gradients.
result Establishes convergence to a stationary point for smooth losses and a global minimizer under smoothness + Polyak-Lojasiewicz condition.
State-of-the-art implementations of boosting, such as XGBoost and LightGBM, can process large training sets extremely fast. However, this performance requires that the memory size is sufficient to hold a 2-3 multiple of the training set size. This paper presents an alternative approach to implementing the boosted trees…
We describe novel subgradient methods for a broad class of matrix optimization problems involving nuclear norm regularization. Unlike existing approaches, our method executes very cheap iterations by combining low-rank stochastic subgradients with efficient incremental SVD updates, made possible by highly optimized and…
Feature selection is an important challenge in machine learning. It plays a crucial role in the explainability of machine-driven decisions that are rapidly permeating throughout modern society. Unfortunately, the explosion in the size and dimensionality of real-world datasets poses a severe challenge to standard featur…
Incremental versions of batch algorithms are often desired, for increased time efficiency in the streaming data setting, or increased memory efficiency in general. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for incremental kernel PCA, based on rank one updates to the eigendecomposition of the kernel matrix, which is mo…
This paper describes some applications of an incremental implementation of the principal component analysis (PCA). The algorithm updates the transformation coefficients matrix on-line for each new sample, without the need to keep all the samples in memory. The algorithm is formally equivalent to the usual batch version…
Language Models (LMs) are important components in several Natural Language Processing systems. Recurrent Neural Network LMs composed of LSTM units, especially those augmented with an external memory, have achieved state-of-the-art results. However, these models still struggle to process long sequences which are more li…