13 papers
Leave it to the Specialist: Repair Sparse LLMs with Sparse Fine-Tuning via Sparsity Evolution
Qiao Xiao, Alan Ansell, Boqian Wu +4
Sparse large language models (LLMs) offer an attractive direction toward efficient deployment, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging. The central difficulty is…
When Data Is Scarce: Scaling Sparse Language Models with Repeated Training
Boqian Wu, Qiao Xiao, Patrik Okanovic +6
Scaling laws for dense LLMs under infinite data are well explored, but how sparsity interacts with limited data is not. In this work, we study sparse training in data-constrained r…
Memory-Efficient LLM Training with Dynamic Sparsity: From Stability to Practical Scaling
Qiao Xiao, Boqian Wu, Patrik Okanovic +6
Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) offers a promising paradigm for improving the training and inference efficiency of deep neural networks; however, we find that in large language model…
Sparse-to-Sparse Training of Diffusion Models
Inês Cardoso Oliveira, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Luis A. Leiva
Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful type of generative models that have achieved state-of-the-art results in various image synthesis tasks and have shown potential in other domai…
Deep Ensembling with No Overhead for either Training or Testing: The All-Round Blessings of Dynamic Sparsity
Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Zahra Atashgahi +6
The success of deep ensembles on improving predictive performance, uncertainty estimation, and out-of-distribution robustness has been extensively studied in the machine learning l…
Batch Matrix-form Equations and Implementation of Multilayer Perceptrons
Wieger Wesselink, Bram Grooten, Huub van de Wetering +2
Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) remain fundamental to modern deep learning, yet their algorithmic details are rarely presented in complete, explicit \emph{batch matrix-form}. Rather,…