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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Sparse Networks from Scratch: Faster Training without Losing Performance

   Dettmers and Zettlemoyer · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper presents sparse momentum, a method that keeps neural network weights sparse throughout training while matching dense performance levels and training up to 5.61 times faster.

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   1. UncheckedSparse momentum is reported to give state-of-the-art sparse-network results on MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, with 8%, 15% and 6% lower relative mean error.“We demonstrate state-of-the-art sparse performance on MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet, decreasing the mean error by a relative 8%, 15%, and 6% compared to other sparse algorithms.”
   2. UncheckedAblation tests in the paper suggest that momentum-based redistribution and growth of weights help more as a network gets deeper and larger.“In our analysis, ablations show that the benefits of momentum redistribution and growth increase with the depth and size of the network.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Embedding Recycling for Language Models

   Saad-Falcon, Singh, Soldaini, D’Arcy, Cohan and Downey · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“For the best-performing baseline in our experiments (DeBERTa-v2 XL), adding a precomputed cache results in a >90% speedup during training and 87-91% speedup for inference, with negligible impact on accuracy.”