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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.

This paper optimizes caching and model multiplexing for large model inference.

problem Resource consumption and latency challenges in large model deployment.
method Jointly optimizing a caching algorithm (GDSF or LEC) and a model multiplexer for large model inference.
result Achieves optimal rates in offline and online settings with up to 50x improvement over baseline.

New method grows deep networks efficiently by dynamically pruning and growing layers.

problem Training deep networks is computationally expensive and inefficient.
method Structured continuous sparsification starting from a small seed architecture.
result 49.7% inference FLOPs and 47.4% training FLOPs savings with 75.2% top-1 accuracy.

Deep neural networks with more parameters and FLOPs have higher capacity and generalize better to diverse domains. But to be deployed on edge devices, the model's complexity has to be constrained due to limited compute resource. In this work, we propose a method to improve the model capacity without increasing inferenc…

2019-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the behavior of Ricci-flat Kähler metrics on Calabi-Yau manifolds under algebraic geometric surgeries: extremal transitions or flops. We prove a version of Candelas and de la Ossa's conjecture: Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds related by extremal transitions and flops can be connected by a path c…

2010-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Ensembling smaller models can outperform larger models in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

problem The inefficiency of training larger models for boosting performance.
method Training ensembles of smaller models and comparing their performance to single larger models.
result Ensembles of smaller models outperform single larger models in accuracy and efficiency, especially as models grow large.

Structural pruning of neural network parameters reduces computation, energy, and memory transfer costs during inference. We propose a novel method that estimates the contribution of a neuron (filter) to the final loss and iteratively removes those with smaller scores. We describe two variations of our method using the …

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is studied extensively with the focus of maximizing prediction accuracy given an overall parameter budget. Existing methods rely on uniform or heuristic non-uniform sparsity budgets which have sub-optimal layer-wise parameter allocation resulting in a) lower prediction accuracy o…

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We define relative Gromov-Witten invariants and establish a general gluing theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves for symplectic cutting and contact surgery. Then, we use our general gluing theory to study the change of GW-invariants of Calabi-Yau 3-folds tranform under flops and extremal transitions. We prove a complete …

1998-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This article is concerned with an observation for proving non-existence of canonical Kahler metrics. The idea is to use a rather explicit type of degeneration that applies in many situations. Namely, in a variation on a theme introduced by Ross-Thomas, we consider flops of the deformation to the normal cone. This yield…

2015-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The deployment of deep neural networks in real-world applications is mostly restricted by their high inference costs. Extensive efforts have been made to improve the accuracy with expert-designed or algorithm-searched architectures. However, the incremental improvement is typically achieved with increasingly more expen…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

VMoER improves uncertainty quantification in MoE layers for scalable foundation models.

problem Uncertainty quantification in large-scale models like MoE layers.
method Structured Bayesian approach with amortized variational inference over routing logits and temperature parameter inference.
result Improves routing stability, reduces calibration error, and increases AUROC by 12%.

RicciNets prunes neural networks by removing edges of low importance based on Ricci curvature, reducing FLOPs by 35%.

problem Pruning neural networks to reduce computational load and improve efficiency.
method RicciNets uses Ricci curvature to prune edges of low importance in a randomly wired neural network, reducing FLOPs.
result Reduction of almost 35% in FLOPs with no performance degradation.

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can model natural language by sequentially 'reading' input tokens and outputting a distributed representation of each token. Due to the sequential nature of RNNs, inference time is linearly dependent on the input length, and all inputs are read regardless of their importance. Efforts to…

2019-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper gives a description of the full space of Bridgeland stability conditions on the bounded derived category of a contraction algebra associated to a 3-fold flop. The main result is that the stability manifold is the universal cover of a naturally associated hyperplane arrangement, which is known to be simplicia…

2019-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

LLoCa makes any network Lorentz-equivariant, achieving high accuracy and efficiency.

problem Limitations of specialized layers in Lorentz-equivariant neural networks.
method LLoCa framework using local reference frames and geometric message passing.
result Models achieve competitive and state-of-the-art accuracy on particle physics tasks.

SSVI efficiently trains sparse Bayesian neural networks with minimal compression and performance loss.

problem Efficiently training Bayesian neural networks with uncertainty quantification.
method SSVI optimizes a sparse subspace basis selection and its parameters alternately, guided by weight distribution statistics.
result SSVI achieves significant compression (10-20x model size reduction) with minimal performance drop (under 3%) and FLOPs reduction (up to 20x) compared to dense Variational Inference.

Reducing the test time resource requirements of a neural network while preserving test accuracy is crucial for running inference on resource-constrained devices. To achieve this goal, we introduce a novel network reparameterization based on the Kronecker-factored eigenbasis (KFE), and then apply Hessian-based structure…

2019-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a fast proximal Newton-type algorithm for minimizing regularized finite sums that returns an εε-suboptimal point in O~(d(n+κd)log(1ε))\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(d(n + \sqrt{κd})\log(\frac{1}ε)) FLOPS, where nn is number of samples, dd is feature dimension, and κκ is the condition number. As long as n>dn > d, the proposed method…

2017-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers enhance EfficientNet models for practical efficiency on Graphcore IPU.

problem Improving practical efficiency of EfficientNet models on high-performance accelerators.
method Group convolutions, proxy-normalized activations, and reduced training resolution.
result Improves practical efficiency for both training and inference on Graphcore IPU.

Many applications require sparse neural networks due to space or inference time restrictions. There is a large body of work on training dense networks to yield sparse networks for inference, but this limits the size of the largest trainable sparse model to that of the largest trainable dense model. In this paper we int…

2019-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks offer high-accuracy solutions to a range of problems, but are costly to run in production systems because of computational and memory requirements during a forward pass. Given a trained network, we propose a techique called Deep Learning Approximation to build a faster network in a tiny fraction of the …

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove that the metric completion of a canonical Ricci-flat Kahler metric on the nonsingular part of a projective Calabi-Yau variety XX with ordinary double point singularities, is a compact metric length space homeomorphic to the projective variety XX itself. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Candelas an…

2012-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Mobile V-MoEs scale down ViTs for resource-constrained vision tasks.

problem Scaling down Vision Transformers for resource-constrained applications.
method Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) applied to entire images, with a stable training procedure.
result Mobile V-MoEs achieve better performance-efficiency trade-offs than dense ViTs.

The random subspace method, known as the pillar of random forests, is good at making precise and robust predictions. However, there is not a straightforward way yet to combine it with deep learning. In this paper, we therefore propose Neural Random Subspace (NRS), a novel deep learning based random subspace method. In …

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

DNAS disentangles neural architecture search for better interpretability and performance.

problem Lack of interpretability in existing neural architecture search methods.
method DNAS disentangles the hidden representation of the controller into semantically meaningful concepts.
result DNAS achieves state-of-the-art performance and competitive architectures.

This work proposes a method to learn sparse representations that are more efficient for large-scale data retrieval.

problem Efficient retrieval of high-dimensional representations from large databases is computationally challenging.
method The approach minimizes the number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) by learning sparse embeddings with uniform non-zero entries.
result The proposed method achieves a similar or better speed-vs-accuracy tradeoff compared to existing baselines.

NPAS trains neural networks with a fixed parameter budget, improving performance and compactness.

problem Training neural networks requires memory, and existing methods struggle with arbitrary parameter budgets.
method NPAS learns to share parameters automatically, covering low and high budgets.
result NPAS and SSNs improve network performance and compactness across various tasks.

We introduce the fibred toric varieties as equivariant CPr\mathbb{C}P^r bundles over lower dimensional toric varieties. An equivalent characterization is that the natural morphisms on them degenerate to bundle projections in the context of variation of toric varieties as GIT quotients. Our main observation is that these…

2010-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

In 1995 D. Joyce explicitly constructed a series of self-dual metrics with torus action on the connected sums of complex projective planes. In this paper we explicitly construct the twistor spaces of some of Joyce's self-dual metrics. Starting from a fiber space whose fibers are compact singular toric surfaces, we appl…

2006-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Long short-term memory (LSTM) has been widely used for sequential data modeling. Researchers have increased LSTM depth by stacking LSTM cells to improve performance. This incurs model redundancy, increases run-time delay, and makes the LSTMs more prone to overfitting. To address these problems, we propose a hidden-laye…

2018-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite the promising results of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), their application on devices with limited resources is still a big challenge; this is mainly due to the huge memory and computation requirements of the CNN. To counter the limitation imposed by the network size, we use pruning to reduce the network …

2020-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗