Many applications require that we learn the parameters of a model from data. EM is a method used to learn the parameters of probabilistic models for which the data for some of the variables in the models is either missing or hidden. There are instances in which this method is slow to converge. Therefore, several accele…
Paper discovers structural dynamics equations from only acceleration data.
problem Discovering equations from only acceleration measurements in structural dynamics.
method Library-based approach with Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) prioritizing parsimonious models.
result Efficacy demonstrated in four structural dynamics examples, including linear and nonlinear systems.
New algorithms accelerate model-based optimization for stochastic problems.
problem Optimizing model-based stochastic optimization problems efficiently.
method Proposed new model-based algorithms with acceleration and minibatch techniques.
result Non-asymptotic convergence guarantees with linear speedup in minibatch size.
SUOD accelerates OD for large, diverse models.
problem Training and scoring new samples with many unsupervised, heterogeneous OD models.
method Data reduction, model approximation, and taskload optimization.
result SUOD accelerates OD for over 20 benchmark datasets and a real-world case.
New method accelerates diffusion models for broader target distributions.
problem Current diffusion models have limited acceleration for certain target distributions.
method Developed a novel accelerated stochastic DDPM sampler.
result Achieved accelerated performance for three broad distribution classes.
Accelerates MMLE using SVGD with Nesterov acceleration.
problem Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation optimization.
method Stein variational gradient descent with Nesterov acceleration.
result Consistently accelerates convergence across various tasks.
Paper accelerates diffusion models, improving sampling speed.
problem Low sampling speed in score-based diffusion models.
method Design of novel training-free algorithms for deterministic and stochastic samplers.
result Accelerated samplers converge faster with improved rates.
AGNES accelerates gradient descent with noisy gradients.
problem Minimizing smooth convex and strongly convex functions with noisy gradients.
method Generalization of Nesterov's accelerated gradient descent algorithm for noisy conditions.
result AGNES achieves acceleration for noisy gradients with a constant of proportionality up to 1.
Accelerates TPP sampling with speculative decoding for faster sequence generation.
problem Efficiently sampling from complex temporal point processes.
method Adapting speculative decoding techniques from language models to TPPs.
result Achieves significant speedup (2-6x) while maintaining distributional accuracy.
PipeDream-2BW accelerates large model training by 20x with minimal memory usage.
problem Training large models requires memory beyond single accelerator capacity.
method Pipeline parallelism, weight gradient coalescing, double buffering.
result Accelerates large model training by up to 20x.
New method speeds up diffusion models without requiring complex assumptions.
problem Slow sampling in diffusion models due to high computational cost.
method Training-free acceleration scheme under minimal assumptions.
result Provable acceleration within O ~ ( d 5 / 4 / ε ) \widetilde{O}(d^{5/4}/\sqrt{\varepsilon}) O ( d 5/4 / ε ) iterations. Paper proposes a new method to speed up diffusion models.
problem High computational cost of sampling from diffusion models.
method Stochastic Runge-Kutta method for acceleration.
result Provable acceleration with reduced score function evaluations.
Improved SDE-BNN model reduces NFEs and accelerates convergence.
problem High computational cost and convergence instability in SDE-BNNs.
method Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG) method integrated into SDE-BNN framework.
result Significantly reduced number of function evaluations (NFEs) and improved predictive accuracy.
Accelerates Riemannian gradient methods with extrapolation.
problem Optimizing functions on manifolds efficiently.
method Extrapolating iterates in Riemannian gradient descent.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate and computational advantage.
Accelerates policy optimization in RL with optimistic and adaptive updates.
problem Improving policy optimization methods in reinforcement learning.
method Integrates foresight into policy improvement step via optimistic and adaptive updates.
result Designs an optimistic policy gradient algorithm, adaptive via meta-gradient learning.
DeepLight accelerates CTR predictions in ad serving by 46X.
problem Significantly increased serving delay and high memory usage for ad serving.
method Explicitly searching feature interactions, pruning layers, promoting sparsity.
result Accelerates model inference by 46X on Criteo dataset.
DANCE optimizes neural network and accelerator design for faster, more efficient DNN execution.
problem Challenges in optimizing neural network and accelerator design for efficient DNN execution.
method Differentiable approach to co-exploration of accelerator and network architecture design.
result Significantly shorter time to achieve superior accuracy and hardware cost metrics.
Surrogate models speed up RL training in dynamic systems.
problem High computational cost of high-fidelity simulations.
method Developed and tested surrogate models for RL training.
result Surrogate models can significantly accelerate RL training.
We present theoretical results on the convergence of \emph{non-convex} accelerated gradient descent in matrix factorization models with ℓ 2 \ell_2 ℓ 2 -norm loss. The purpose of this work is to study the effects of acceleration in non-convex settings, where provable convergence with acceleration should not be considered a \em…
Optimized neural networks for Edge TPU achieve high accuracy in real-time image classification.
problem Designing neural networks for hardware accelerators to achieve optimal performance.
method Hardware-aware neural architecture search and model customization for Edge TPU.
result Improved accuracy-latency tradeoff on Pixel 4's Edge TPU compared to existing models.
In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the sparse Gaussian process formulation. Additionally, the computational bottleneck is …
Study accelerates optimization methods in non-convex problems, but doesn't improve the algorithm's performance.
problem Understanding the behavior of momentum-based acceleration methods in non-convex, high-dimensional landscapes.
method Used dynamical mean field theory to describe the average dynamics of heavy-ball momentum and Nesterov acceleration in a non-convex model.
result Accelerated dynamics but did not improve the algorithm's performance with respect to gradient descent.
Accelerated optimization methods improve robustness and privacy in estimation.
problem Improving robustness and privacy in estimation methods.
method Accelerated gradient methods based on Frank-Wolfe and projected gradient descent, with tailored learning rates and Nesterov's momentum.
result Reduction in iteration complexity, leading to stronger statistical guarantees.
Accelerates optimization in asynchronous systems with sparse updates.
problem Optimizing finite-sum objectives in asynchronous lock-free environments.
method New accelerated SVRG variant with sparse updates.
result Achieves optimal incremental gradient complexity.
We analyze Riemannian accelerated methods using a new framework.
problem Understanding Riemannian accelerated gradient methods.
method Riemannian A-HPE framework, focusing on Euclidean A-HPE insights and metric distortion control.
result Characterization of acceleration for various Riemannian methods.
Inference of latent feature models in the Bayesian nonparametric setting is generally difficult, especially in high dimensional settings, because it usually requires proposing features from some prior distribution. In special cases, where the integration is tractable, we can sample new feature assignments according to …
LA-VDM accelerates VDM using landmarks to improve data analysis.
problem Efficiently analyzing complex datasets with nonuniform sampling densities.
method Landmark-constrained two-stage normalization to accelerate VDM.
result LA-VDM accurately recovers parallel transport and converges to the connection Laplacian.
Improved NiNo networks accelerate Adam training by up to 50%.
problem Accelerating neural network training with stable and efficient methods.
method Proposed NiNo networks that leverage neuron connectivity and graph neural networks to nowcast parameters periodically during Adam training.
result Accelerates Adam training by up to 50% in vision and language tasks.
PF-LaCG removes the need for knowing smoothness and strong convexity parameters for locally accelerated CG.
problem Locally accelerated CG requires knowledge of smoothness and strong convexity parameters.
method Parameter-Free Locally Accelerated CG (PF-LaCG) algorithm.
result PF-LaCG achieves local acceleration without requiring knowledge of smoothness and strong convexity parameters.
Accelerates coordinate descent methods for machine learning problems.
problem Slowness of coordinate descent methods in machine learning.
method Extrapolation-based accelerated coordinate descent.
result Significant speed-up in practice compared to existing methods.
Continuized Nesterov acceleration accelerates stochastic gradient descent and gossip algorithms.
problem Improving the convergence rate of stochastic gradient descent and gossip algorithms.
method Introducing a continuized variant of Nesterov acceleration, which mixes variables continuously and takes gradient steps at random times.
result The continuized Nesterov acceleration achieves convergence rates similar to Nesterov's original acceleration but with random parameters.
Accelerated gradient methods play a central role in optimization, achieving optimal rates in many settings. While many generalizations and extensions of Nesterov's original acceleration method have been proposed, it is not yet clear what is the natural scope of the acceleration concept. In this paper, we study accelera…
This paper analyzes speculative decoding, a method to speed up large language model inferences.
problem Theoretical understanding of speculative decoding is lacking.
method Conceptualizes speculative decoding as a markov chain problem and studies its key properties.
result Reveals fundamental connections between LLM components and their impact on decoding efficiency.
This research analyzes and accelerates score-based diffusion models using discretization and Hessian information.
problem Theoretical foundations and convergence analysis of score-based diffusion models.
method Investigation of various discretization schemes, including Euler, exponential integrators, and midpoint randomization. Proposal of an accelerated sampler based on local linearization method.
result Hessian-based approach achieves faster convergence rates of order $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(\frac{1}{\varepsilon}
ight)$ , significantly improving upon vanilla diffusion models.
Develops accelerated methods for optimization using low-dimensional projected-gradient information.
problem Optimization with low-dimensional projected-gradient information and Nesterov acceleration.
method Randomized-subspace Nesterov accelerated gradient methods for smooth convex and strongly convex optimization.
result Established accelerated oracle-complexity guarantees and unified basis for comparing sketch families.
The paper accelerates LLM inference by adding early exit heads trained in a self-supervised manner.
problem Inference speed in large language models (LLMs) is slow and resource-intensive.
method Adding self-supervised early exit heads at intermediate transformer layers to stop computation early based on confidence thresholds.
result Entropy provides the most reliable confidence metric for stopping computation early.
Accelerates sampling from Gibbs distributions using ARWP method.
problem Sampling from Gibbs distributions efficiently.
method ARWP method, combining Nesterov acceleration and regularized Wasserstein proximal.
result ARWP exhibits higher contraction rate and faster tail exploration.
A geometric framework for metrics of maximal acceleration which is applicable to large proper accelerations is discussed, including a theory of connections associated with the geometry of maximal acceleration. In such a framework it is shown that the uniform bound on the proper maximal acceleration implies an uniform b…
Generative model synthesizes earthquake acceleration data.
problem Robust estimation of ground motions for engineering applications.
method Wasserstein GAN formulation for conditioning on physical variables.
result Trained model synthesizes realistic 3-component accelerograms.
FedAc accelerates Federated Averaging for distributed optimization.
problem Efficiently optimizing distributed machine learning models.
method Federated Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Descent (FedAc) using a potential-based perturbed iterate analysis.
result FedAc achieves faster convergence and lower communication costs than previous methods.
A deep-learning inference accelerator is synthesized from a C-language software program parallelized with Pthreads. The software implementation uses the well-known producer/consumer model with parallel threads interconnected by FIFO queues. The LegUp high-level synthesis (HLS) tool synthesizes threads into parallel FPG…
This research accelerates sampling methods using Nesterov's Acceleration.
problem Improving sampling efficiency in MCMC methods.
method Developed a Hessian-Free High-Resolution ODE reformulation of NAG-SC, injected noise, and discretized the diffusion process.
result Quantified acceleration beyond underdamped Langevin in W 2 W_2 W 2 distance for log-strongly-concave targets. ASBART accelerates Soft BART for faster Bayesian regression.
problem Slow computation in Soft BART.
method Proposed ASBART, a variant of Soft BART.
result ASBART is about 10 times faster than Soft BART with similar accuracy.
New method accelerates Bayesian imaging using Langevin sampling.
problem Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with convex geometry.
method Stochastic relaxed proximal-point iteration targeting posterior distribution.
result Accelerated convergence for κ κ κ -strongly log-concave targets. ANADDH uses deep learning to improve volatility risk management.
problem Traditional Vega hedging strategies are inadequate for rapidly changing markets.
method Combines distributional reinforcement learning with adaptive Nesterov acceleration.
result Significant performance gains over existing hedging techniques.
Nested Slice Sampling accelerates Nested Sampling for GPU acceleration.
problem Challenging inference for complex, multimodal targets.
method Vectorized Nested Slice Sampling using Hit-and-Run Slice Sampling.
result NSS maintains accurate evidence estimates and high-quality posterior samples, robust on multimodal problems.
Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been widely used for a range of complex control tasks. However, slow convergence and sample inefficiency remain challenging problems in RL, especially when handling continuous and high-dimensional state spaces. To tackle this problem, we propose a general acce…
This paper studies accelerations in Q-learning algorithms. We propose an accelerated target update scheme by incorporating the historical iterates of Q functions. The idea is conceptually inspired by the momentum-based accelerated methods in the optimization theory. Conditions under which the proposed accelerated algor…