7 accepted papers
Distributed learning has achieved remarkable success in training deep neural networks (DNNs) on large datasets, but the communication bottleneck limits its scalability. Various compression techniques have been proposed to alleviate this limitation; however, they either use fixed parameters throughou…
Policy gradient methods, which have been extensively studied in the last decade, offer an effective and efficient framework for reinforcement learning problems. However, their performances can often be unsatisfactory, suffering from unreliable reward improvements and slow convergence, due to high va
Commonsense visual–question answering often hinges on knowledge that is missing from the image or the question. Small vision-language models (sVLMs) such as ViLT, VisualBERT, and FLAVA therefore lag behind their larger generative counterparts. To study the effect of careful commonsense knowledge int
Despite the commercial abundance of UAVs aerial data acquisition remains challenging and the existing Asia and North America-centric open-source UAV datasets are small-scale or low-resolution and lack diversity in scene contextuality. Additionally the color content of the scenes solar zenith angle a…
"Multi-modal transformers mark significant progress in different domains, but privacy concerns on high-quality data hinder their further improvement. Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for training models without direct access to the raw data held by diffe…
Sparse tensors appear frequently in federated deep learning, either as a direct artifact of the deep neural network’s gradients, or as a result of an explicit sparsification process. Existing communication primitives are agnostic to the peculiarities of deep learning; consequently, they impose unne…
Gradient compression is a widely-established remedy to tackle the communication bottleneck in distributed training of large deep neural networks (DNNs). Under the error-feedback framework, Top-$k$ sparsification, sometimes with $k$ as little as 0.1% of the gradient size, enables training to the same…