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Non-Uniform Parameter-Wise Model Merging

Albert Manuel Orozco Camacho, Stefan Horoi, Guy Wolf +1

Combining multiple machine learning models has long been a technique for enhancing performance, particularly in distributed settings. Traditional approaches, such as model ensemble…

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Not Only the Last-Layer Features for Spurious Correlations: All Layer Deep Feature Reweighting

Humza Wajid Hameed, Geraldin Nanfack, Eugene Belilovsky

Spurious correlations are a major source of errors for machine learning models, in particular when aiming for group-level fairness. It has been recently shown that a powerful appro…

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Accelerating Training with Neuron Interaction and Nowcasting Networks

Boris Knyazev, Abhinav Moudgil, Guillaume Lajoie +2

Neural network training can be accelerated when a learnable update rule is used in lieu of classic adaptive optimizers (e.g. Adam). However, learnable update rules can be costly an…

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Harmony in Diversity: Merging Neural Networks with Canonical Correlation Analysis

Stefan Horoi, Albert Manuel Orozco Camacho, Eugene Belilovsky +1

Combining the predictions of multiple trained models through ensembling is generally a good way to improve accuracy by leveraging the different learned features of the models, howe…

cs.CV2024

From Feature Visualization to Visual Circuits: Effect of Adversarial Model Manipulation

Geraldin Nanfack, Michael Eickenberg, Eugene Belilovsky

Understanding the inner working functionality of large-scale deep neural networks is challenging yet crucial in several high-stakes applications. Mechanistic inter- pretability is…

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ACCO: Accumulate While You Communicate for Communication-Overlapped Sharded LLM Training

Adel Nabli, Louis Fournier, Pierre Erbacher +3

Training LLMs relies on distributed implementations using multiple GPUs to compute gradients in parallel with sharded optimizers. However, synchronizing gradients in data parallel…

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PETRA: Parallel End-to-end Training with Reversible Architectures

Stéphane Rivaud, Louis Fournier, Thomas Pumir +3

Reversible architectures have been shown to be capable of performing on par with their non-reversible architectures, being applied in deep learning for memory savings and generativ…

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LO: Compute-Efficient Meta-Generalization of Learned Optimizers

Benjamin Thérien, Charles-Étienne Joseph, Boris Knyazev +3

Learned optimizers (LOs) have the potential to significantly reduce the wall-clock training time of neural networks. However, they can struggle to optimize unseen tasks (meta-gener…

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WASH: Train your Ensemble with Communication-Efficient Weight Shuffling, then Average

Louis Fournier, Adel Nabli, Masih Aminbeidokhti +3

The performance of deep neural networks is enhanced by ensemble methods, which average the output of several models. However, this comes at an increased cost at inference. Weight a…

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AdaFisher: Adaptive Second Order Optimization via Fisher Information

Damien Martins Gomes, Yanlei Zhang, Eugene Belilovsky +2

First-order optimization methods are currently the mainstream in training deep neural networks (DNNs). Optimizers like Adam incorporate limited curvature information by employing t…

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Simple and Scalable Strategies to Continually Pre-train Large Language Models

Adam Ibrahim, Benjamin Thérien, Kshitij Gupta +5

Large language models (LLMs) are routinely pre-trained on billions of tokens, only to start the process over again once new data becomes available. A much more efficient solution i…

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Channel-Selective Normalization for Label-Shift Robust Test-Time Adaptation

Pedro Vianna, Muawiz Chaudhary, Paria Mehrbod +5

Deep neural networks have useful applications in many different tasks, however their performance can be severely affected by changes in the data distribution. For example, in the b…