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This paper represents a preliminary (pre-reviewing) version of a sublinear variational algorithm for isotropic Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). Further developments of the algorithm for GMMs with diagonal covariance matrices (instead of isotropic clusters) and their corresponding benchmarking results have been published…

2018-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

IMPACC improves consensus clustering for bioinformatics data.

problem Consensus clustering's inefficiency and lack of interpretability for large-scale data.
method Ensemble minipatch co-occurrences, adaptive sampling of observations and features.
result Significantly improved accuracy and interpretability with substantial computational savings.

Finding Tiny Faces (by Hu and Ramanan) proposes a novel approach to find small objects in an image. Our contribution consists in deeply understanding the choices of the paper together with applying and extending a similar method to a real world subject which is the counting of people in a public demonstration.

2018-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm PRACTISE accelerates networks with tiny sets, reducing latency by 22%.

problem Accelerating networks with tiny training sets to improve performance and privacy.
method Proposes a new algorithm PRACTISE based on finetune convexity hypothesis and feature mimicking.
result PRACTISE outperforms previous methods by reducing latency by 22% on ImageNet-1k.

ThriftyNet uses a single convolutional layer recursively to maximize parameter usage.

problem Maximizing the use of parameters in deep convolutional neural networks.
method A single convolutional layer is used recursively, with normalization, non-linearities, downsampling, and shortcuts to maintain model expressivity.
result ThriftyNet achieves competitive performance with significantly fewer parameters.

Study Lie algebras with complex structures, focusing on degenerations and deformations.

problem Understanding the space of Lie algebras with complex structures and their transformations.
method Identifying invariants that remain consistent under degenerations and applying to four-dimensional case.
result Found invariants that help in understanding the behavior of Lie algebras under complex structures.

Paper proposes a GPU-based system for training massive deep learning models in ads systems.

problem Training massive deep learning models with terabyte-scale parameters in ads systems.
method Hierarchical GPU parameter server with 3-layer storage (GPU High-Bandwidth Memory, CPU main memory, SSD).
result 4-node hierarchical GPU parameter server trains a model 2X faster than a 150-node in-memory system.

Improved deep learning model deployment on tiny MCUs with mixed-precision quantization.

problem Memory limitations prevent accurate deployment of DNN models on tiny MCUs.
method Automated mixed-precision quantization using Reinforcement Learning for MCU constraints.
result Mixed-precision models achieve high accuracy with uniform quantization policies.

This work analyzes how frequency components affect CNN predictions and robustness.

problem Lack of frequency-based explanation for CNNs leading to vulnerabilities.
method Frequency component analysis and quantification of their contribution to CNN predictions.
result Adversarial attacks exploit high-frequency features, while robustness comes from low-frequency associations.

AL0\ell_0CORE tensor decomposition reduces computational cost for sparse count data.

problem Efficiently decompose sparse count data matrices.
method Probabilistic Tucker decomposition with 0\ell_0-norm constraint.
result AL0\ell_0CORE achieves similar results to full Tucker decomposition at a fraction of the cost.

POET enables large neural network training on tiny devices with reduced energy.

problem Training large neural networks on memory-limited edge devices.
method Jointly optimizes rematerialization and paging for memory reduction, formulating an MILP for energy-efficient training.
result POET trains ResNet-18 and BERT within Cortex-M memory constraints, outperforming current methods in energy efficiency.

In continual learning (CL), an agent learns from a stream of tasks leveraging prior experience to transfer knowledge to future tasks. It is an ideal framework to decrease the amount of supervision in the existing learning algorithms. But for a successful knowledge transfer, the learner needs to remember how to perform …

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved robustness of machine learning models with controlled Lipschitz constants.

problem Vulnerability of state-of-the-art models to adversarial attacks.
method Proposes a CLL loss that calibrates the margin and Lipschitz constant penalties, improving robustness certificates.
result Consistently outperforms other losses on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Tiny-ImageNet datasets.

We show that in a variety of large-scale deep learning scenarios the gradient dynamically converges to a very small subspace after a short period of training. The subspace is spanned by a few top eigenvectors of the Hessian (equal to the number of classes in the dataset), and is mostly preserved over long periods of tr…

2018-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A new mutual information optimization method using self-supervised binary contrastive learning.

problem Improving self-supervised contrastive learning for better model performance.
method Proposes a novel loss function for contrastive learning that optimizes mutual information in positive and negative pairs.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised contrastive frameworks on various benchmark datasets.

Review of efficient neural networks for TinyML on resource-constrained devices.

problem Resource constraints on ultra-low power MCUs for deep learning models.
method Model compression, quantization, low-rank factorization, model pruning, hardware acceleration, algorithm-architecture co-design.
result Optimized neural network architectures for minimal resource utilization on MCUs.

Sharp results link DLN gradient flow to basis pursuit optimization and GHA phase transitions.

problem Understanding implicit regularization in Diagonal Linear Networks.
method Sharp convergence bounds and characterization of 1\ell_1 minimizers.
result Gradient flow of DLNs with tiny initialization approximates minimizers of basis pursuit optimization problem.

Dropout is often used in deep neural networks to prevent over-fitting. Conventionally, dropout training invokes \textit{random drop} of nodes from the hidden layers of a Neural Network. It is our hypothesis that a guided selection of nodes for intelligent dropout can lead to better generalization as compared to the tra…

2018-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent research showed that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to so-called adversarial perturbations, which are tiny perturbations of the input data purposely designed to fool a machine learning classifier. Most classification models, including deep learning models, are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks.…

2018-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework explains adversarial examples in neural nets.

problem Adversarial examples in deep neural networks are counterintuitive and hard to explain.
method Introduces Dimpled Manifold Model to explain training phases and adversarial examples.
result Shows how adversarial examples arise from training dynamics and dimpling phase.

In this short article we investigate the topology of the moduli space of two-convex embedded tori Sn1×S1Rn+1S^{n-1}\times S^1\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}. We prove that for n3n \geq 3 this moduli space is path-connected, and that for n=2n = 2 the connected components of the moduli space are in bijective correspondence with the knot…

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to improve neural architectures reproducibly.

problem Lack of reproducibility in Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT).
method Differentiable Neural Architecture Transformation (DNAT).
result DNAT outperforms NAT and is applicable to various models and datasets.

GraphXCOVID uses deep semi-supervised learning to identify COVID-19 from chest X-rays with minimal labels.

problem Identifying COVID-19 on chest X-rays with limited labelled data.
method Graph-based deep semi-supervised framework with pseudo-labeling and attention maps.
result Outperforms current supervised models with a tiny fraction of labelled examples.

This work analyzes the Gompertz-Pareto distribution (GPD) of personal income, formed by the combination of the Gompertz curve, representing the overwhelming majority of the economically less favorable part of the population of a country, and the Pareto power law, which describes its tiny richest part. Equations for the…

2010-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparsification is an efficient approach to accelerate CNN inference, but it is challenging to take advantage of sparsity in training procedure because the involved gradients are dynamically changed. Actually, an important observation shows that most of the activation gradients in back-propagation are very close to zero…

2019-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Understanding how neural networks learn remains one of the central challenges in machine learning research. From random at the start of training, the weights of a neural network evolve in such a way as to be able to perform a variety of tasks, like classifying images. Here we study the emergence of structure in the wei…

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Image classifiers are sensitive to small changes, affecting most images in a class.

problem Sensitivity of image classifiers to small perturbations.
method Demonstrated sensitivity for any classifier over images, showing that for most classes, a tiny perturbation can change the classification of a majority of images.
result Image classifiers are sensitive to small perturbations, affecting most images in a class.