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Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

6 accepted papers

2022

Sparse Progressive Distillation: Resolving Overfitting under Pretrain-and-Finetune Paradigm

ACL 2022long

Conventional wisdom in pruning Transformer-based language models is that pruning reduces the model expressiveness and thus is more likely to underfit rather than overfit. However, under the trending pretrain-and-finetune paradigm, we postulate a counter-traditional hypothesis, that is: pruning incre…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar
2021

A Secure and Efficient Federated Learning Framework for NLP

EMNLP 2021main

In this work, we consider the problem of designing secure and efficient federated learning (FL) frameworks for NLP. Existing solutions under this literature either consider a trusted aggregator or require heavy-weight cryptographic primitives, which makes the performance significantly degraded. More…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2021

Against Membership Inference Attack: Pruning is All You Need

IJCAI 2021poster

The large model size, high computational operations, and vulnerability against membership inference attack (MIA) have impeded deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) popularity, especially on mobile devices. To address the challenge, we envision that the weight pruning technique will help DNNs…

Cited by 61SourcePDFScholar
2021

TAG: Gradient Attack on Transformer-based Language Models

EMNLP 2021finding

Although distributed learning has increasingly gained attention in terms of effectively utilizing local devices for data privacy enhancement, recent studies show that publicly shared gradients in the training process can reveal the private training data (gradient leakage) to a third-party. We have,…

Cited by 90SourcePDFScholar
2019

AutoPrune: Automatic Network Pruning by Regularizing Auxiliary Parameters

NeurIPS 2019poster

Reducing the model redundancy is an important task to deploy complex deep learning models to resource-limited or time-sensitive devices. Directly regularizing or modifying weight values makes pruning procedure less robust and sensitive to the choice of hyperparameters, and it also requires prior kno…

2019

DTWNet: a Dynamic Time Warping Network

NeurIPS 2019poster

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is widely used as a similarity measure in various domains. Due to its invariance against warping in the time axis, DTW provides more meaningful discrepancy measurements between two signals than other dis- tance measures. In this paper, we propose a novel component in an ar…