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311 claims from 205 papers, showing 101–120 of 205

1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   A new look at survey propagation and its generalizations

   Maneva, Mossel and Wainwright · Journal of the ACM · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“We then show that applying belief propagation---a well-known “message-passing” technique for estimating marginal probabilities---to this family of MRFs recovers a known family of algorithms, ranging from pure survey propagation at one extreme (ρ = 1) to stan…
   2. Unchecked“To that end, we investigate the associated lattice structure, and prove a weight-preserving identity that shows how any MRF with ρ > 0 can be viewed as a “smoothed” version of the uniform distribution over satisfying assignments (ρ = 0).”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

   Wang, Zhang and Grosse · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Our method can prune 80% of the weights of a VGG-16 network on ImageNet at initialization, with only a 1.6% drop in top-1 accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”

3. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Deep learning generalizes because the parameter-function map is biased towards simple functions

   Valle-Pérez, Camargo and Louis · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“By exploiting recently discovered connections between DNNs and Gaussian processes to estimate the marginal likelihood, we produce relatively tight generalization PAC-Bayes error bounds which correlate well with the true error on realistic datasets such as MN…

4. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   ThiNet: A Filter Level Pruning Method for Deep Neural Network Compression

   Luo, Wu and Lin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Similar experiments with ResNet-50 reveal that even for a compact network, ThiNet can also reduce more than half of the parameters and FLOPs, at the cost of roughly 1$\%$ top-5 accuracy drop.”
   2. Unchecked“We formally establish filter pruning as an optimization problem, and reveal that we need to prune filters based on statistics information computed from its next layer, not the current layer, which differentiates ThiNet from existing methods.”

5. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   One ticket to win them all: generalizing lottery ticket initializations across datasets and optimizers

   Morcos, Yu, Paganini and Tian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Moreover, winning tickets generated using larger datasets consistently transferred better than those generated using smaller datasets.”

6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Going after the k-SAT threshold

   Coja-Oghlan and Panagiotou · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“This technique enables us to compute the $k$-SAT threshold up to an additive $\ln2-\frac12+O(1/k)\approx 0.19$.”

7. Computer Science › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques

   U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

   Ronneberger, Philipp and Brox · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Segmentation of a 512x512 image takes less than a second on a recent GPU.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that such a network can be trained end-to-end from very few images and outperforms the prior best method (a sliding-window convolutional network) on the ISBI challenge for segmentation of neuronal structures in electron microscopic stacks.”
   3. Unchecked“Using the same network trained on transmitted light microscopy images (phase contrast and DIC) we won the ISBI cell tracking challenge 2015 in these categories by a large margin.”

8. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   MetaPruning: Meta Learning for Automatic Neural Network Channel Pruning

   Liu, Mu, Zhang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Compared to the state-of-the-art pruning methods, we have demonstrated superior performances on MobileNet V1/V2 and ResNet.”
   2. Unchecked“The search is highly efficient because the weights are directly generated by the trained PruningNet and we do not need any finetuning at search time.”

9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Instability of one-step replica-symmetry-broken phase in satisfiability problems

   A, Parisi and Ricci‐Tersenghi · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“It turns out that 1RSB is always unstable at sufficiently small clauses density alpha or high energy.”
   2. Unchecked“On the other hand, the SAT-UNSAT phase transition seems to be correctly described within 1RSB.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Survey propagation as local equilibrium equations

    Braunstein and Zecchina · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“We show that these equations can be derived as sum-product equations for the computation of marginals in an extended space where the variables are allowed to take an additional value -- $*$ -- when they are not forced by the combinatorial constraints.”

11. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity

    Kusupati, Ramanujan, Somani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Notably, STR boosts the accuracy over existing results by up to 10% in the ultra sparse (99%) regime and can also be used to induce low-rank (structured sparsity) in RNNs.”

12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Drawing Early-Bird Tickets: Towards More Efficient Training of Deep Networks

    You, Li, Xu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper, we discover for the first time that the winning tickets can be identified at the very early training stage, which we term as early-bird (EB) tickets, via low-cost training schemes (e.g., early stopping and low-precision training) at large lear…

13. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Statistical mechanics of the random K -satisfiability model

    Monasson and Zecchina · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1997

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    1. Unchecked“The annealed approximation is proven to be exact for large K.”

14. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Threshold Saturation in Spatially Coupled Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Hassani, Macris and Urbanke · Journal of Statistical Physics · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“Namely, the condensation threshold is not affected by coupling, but the dynamic threshold displays saturation towards the condensation one.”
    2. Unchecked“We prove that the SAT-UNSAT phase transition threshold of an infinite chain is identical to the one of the individual standard model, and is therefore not affected by spatial coupling.”

15. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    No Occurrence Obstructions in Geometric Complexity Theory

    Bürgisser, Ikenmeyer and Panova · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“In that paper it was also proposed to separate these orbit closures by exhibiting occurrence obstructions, which are irreducible representations of GL_{n^2}(C), which occur in one coordinate ring of the orbit closure, but not in the other. We prove that this…

16. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

    Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

    Hubinger, Denison, Mu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We find that such backdoor behavior can be made persistent, so that it is not removed by standard safety training techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training (eliciting unsafe behavior and then training to r…

17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Reconstruction and Clustering in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    A, Restrepo and Tetali · SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“The bounds become asymptoticlally tight as the number of degrees of freedom in each clause diverges.”

18. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    On the cavity method for decimated random constraint satisfaction problems and the analysis of belief propagation guided decimation algorithms

    Ricci-Tersenghi and Semerjian · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We introduce a version of the cavity method for diluted mean-field spin models that allows the computation of thermodynamic quantities similar to the Franz-Parisi quenched potential in sparse random graph models.”

19. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

    Malach, Yehudai, Shalev‐Shwartz and Shamir · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We prove an even stronger hypothesis (as was also conjectured in Ramanujan et al., 2019), showing that for every bounded distribution and every target network with bounded weights, a sufficiently over-parameterized neural network with random weights contains…

20. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Soft Filter Pruning for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    He, Kang, Dong, Fu and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Empirically, SFP from scratch outperforms the previous filter pruning methods.”
    2. Unchecked“Notably, on ILSCRC-2012, SFP reduces more than 42% FLOPs on ResNet-101 with even 0.2% top-5 accuracy improvement, which has advanced the state-of-the-art.”