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Field: Computer Science Clear all

357 claims from 239 papers, showing 121–140 of 239

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.”
  5. 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.”
  6. 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…
  7. 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.”
  8. 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.”
  9. 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…
  10. 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…
  11. 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.”
  12. 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.”
  13. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

    Lenia and Expanded Universe

    Chan · Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE) · 2020

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    1. Supported · 71%“Using semi-automatic search e.g. genetic algorithm, we discovered new phenomena like polyhedral symmetries, individuality, self-replication, emission, growth by ingestion, and saw the emergence of "virtual eukaryotes" that possess internal division of labor…
  14. 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…
  15. 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.”
  16. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A Better Algorithm for Random k -SAT

    Coja‐Oghlan · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We present a polynomial time algorithm that finds a satisfying assignment of F with high probability for constraint densities m/n<(1-eps_k)2^k\ln(k)/k, where eps_k->0.”
  17. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Origin of the computational hardness for learning with binary synapses

    Huang and Kabashima · Physical Review E · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The point-like clusters far apart from each other in the weight space explain the previously observed glassy behavior of stochastic local search heuristics.”
  18. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    NISP: Pruning Networks using Neuron Importance Score Propagation

    Yu, Li, Chen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“In contrast, we argue that it is essential to prune neurons in the entire neuron network jointly based on a unified goal: minimizing the reconstruction error of important responses in the "final response layer" (FRL), which is the second-to-last layer before…
    2. Unchecked“Specifically, we apply feature ranking techniques to measure the importance of each neuron in the FRL, and formulate network pruning as a binary integer optimization problem and derive a closed-form solution to it for pruning neurons in earlier layers.”
  19. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Constraint satisfaction problems with isolated solutions are hard

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“On the other hand we show empirically that the clustered phase of these problems is extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”
  20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Locked Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Physical Review Letters · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“While the phase diagram can be found easily, these problems, in their clustered phase, are extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”

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