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skscope simplifies sparsity-constrained optimization in Python.
problem Tedious mathematical deduction and programming for sparsity-constrained optimization.
method Introduces skscope, a Python library that allows users to solve sparsity-constrained optimization problems by just programming the objective function.
result skscope enables state-of-the-art solvers to quickly attain sparse solutions in high-dimensional spaces, achieving up to 80x speedup.
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be sub-optimal for specific classes of problems. In contrast to existing hand-craft…
This paper presents an acceleration framework for packing linear programming problems where the amount of data available is limited, i.e., where the number of constraints m is small compared to the variable dimension n. The framework can be used as a black box to speed up linear programming solvers dramatically, by two…
We developed efficient methods to compute gradients for Neural SDEs, improving training speed and accuracy.
problem Training Neural SDEs requires accurate and efficient computation of gradients, which is challenging due to the complexity of SDEs.
method We introduced a reversible Heun method for solving backwards-in-time SDEs and a Brownian Interval for sampling and reconstructing Brownian motion.
result Our methods significantly improve training speed and accuracy for Neural SDEs, outperforming state-of-the-art techniques.
Convex sparsity-inducing regularizations are ubiquitous in high-dimensional machine learning, but solving the resulting optimization problems can be slow. To accelerate solvers, state-of-the-art approaches consist in reducing the size of the optimization problem at hand. In the context of regression, this can be achiev…
We reduce a broad class of machine learning problems, usually addressed by EM or sampling, to the problem of finding the k extremal rays spanning the conical hull of a data point set. These k "anchors" lead to a global solution and a more interpretable model that can even outperform EM and sampling on generalizatio…
Kernel method has been developed as one of the standard approaches for nonlinear learning, which however, does not scale to large data set due to its quadratic complexity in the number of samples. A number of kernel approximation methods have thus been proposed in the recent years, among which the random features metho…
Hessian-free training has become a popular parallel second or- der optimization technique for Deep Neural Network training. This study aims at speeding up Hessian-free training, both by means of decreasing the amount of data used for training, as well as through reduction of the number of Krylov subspace solver iterati…
The support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used method for classification. Although many efforts have been devoted to develop efficient solvers, it remains challenging to apply SVM to large-scale problems. A nice property of SVM is that the non-support vectors have no effect on the resulting classifier. Motivated by …
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) encode physical conservation laws and prior physical knowledge into the neural networks, ensuring the correct physics is represented accurately while alleviating the need for supervised learning to a great degree. While effective for relatively short-term time integration, when …
In this paper we propose a novel parallel stochastic coordinate descent (SCD) algorithm with convergence guarantees that exhibits strong scalability. We start by studying a state-of-the-art parallel implementation of SCD and identify scalability as well as system-level performance bottlenecks of the respective implemen…
We develop a proxy model based on deep learning methods to accelerate the simulations of oil reservoirs--by three orders of magnitude--compared to industry-strength physics-based PDE solvers. This paper describes a new architectural approach to this task, accompanied by a thorough experimental evaluation on a publicly …
We present an efficient coreset construction algorithm for large-scale Support Vector Machine (SVM) training in Big Data and streaming applications. A coreset is a small, representative subset of the original data points such that a models trained on the coreset are provably competitive with those trained on the origin…
Subset selection from massive data with noised information is increasingly popular for various applications. This problem is still highly challenging as current methods are generally slow in speed and sensitive to outliers. To address the above two issues, we propose an accelerated robust subset selection (ARSS) method…
We present a quantum interior-point method (IPM) for second-order cone programming (SOCP) that runs in time O(nrδ2ζκlog(1/ε)) where r is the rank and n the dimension of the SOCP, δ bounds the distance of intermediate solutions from the cone boundary, ζ…
Optimizes neural networks with blackbox solvers using Time-cost Regularization.
problem Improving neural network performance by integrating efficient solvers for complex problems.
method Optimizes both the primary loss function and the performance of the blackbox solver using Time-cost Regularization. Introduces a hyper-blackbox concept to learn blackbox parameters.
result Significant improvement in neural network performance through optimization of blackbox solvers.
The L0-regularized least squares problem (a.k.a. best subsets) is central to sparse statistical learning and has attracted significant attention across the wider statistics, machine learning, and optimization communities. Recent work has shown that modern mixed integer optimization (MIO) solvers can be used to addre…
During reactive transport modeling, the computational cost associated with chemical reaction calculations is often 10-100 times higher than that of transport calculations. Most of these costs results from chemical equilibrium calculations that are performed at least once in every mesh cell and at every time step of the…
We propose a novel method to accelerate Lloyd's algorithm for K-Means clustering. Unlike previous acceleration approaches that reduce computational cost per iterations or improve initialization, our approach is focused on reducing the number of iterations required for convergence. This is achieved by treating the assig…