arXiv:2510. 01878v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-rank gradient optimization for large language models is currently divided into two categories: structured methods that rigorously identify subspaces, and randomized approaches employed primarily for computational efficiency.
By Sahar Rajabi, Nayeema Nonta, Sirisha Rambhatla
arXiv:2609.39855v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the width required for a randomly initialized hidden layer of a neural network to achieve rank lifting. Namely, given a dataset $X \in \mathbb...
By Luca Becchetti, Matteo Russo, Ruben Skorupinski
arXiv:2505. 15284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection is vital for the reliability of deep neural networks, the key of which lies in effectively characterizing the disparities between OoD and In-Distribution (InD) data.
By Kun Fang, Qinghua Tao, Mingzhen He, Kexin Lv, Runze Yang, Haibo Hu, Xiaolin Huang, Jie Yang, Longbing Cao
arXiv:2609.15488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine learning models process large amounts of data, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique to reduce the dimensionality o...
By Kris Lokere, John Fossaceca
arXiv:2512. 06143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists.
By Marcus M. Noack, Mark D. Risser, Hengrui Luo, Vardaan Tekriwal, Ronald J. Pandolfi
arXiv:2606. 17603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), preventing representation collapse by explicitly enforcing a uniform distribution on the unit hypersphere has proven to be effective.
By L\'eo Nicollier (CB, ATT), Enric Meinhardt-Llopis (CB), Max Dunitz (ATT), Marc Pic (ATT), Pablo Mus\'e (CB, IFUMI), Gabriele Facciolo (CB)
The paper introduces the Sparse Landmark Embedding (SLE) kernel, a new framework that removes the need for conditionally negative definite (CND) distance measures in kernel methods and Gaussian Processes. By embedding each input into a sparse feature vector using compactly supported bump functions centered at all training points, any standard positive semi-definite (PSD) kernel can be applied in this embedding space, guaranteeing PSD for arbitrary distance measures. The authors provide theoretical guarantees on PSD, sparsity, stability, and universal approximation, and show through experiments with geodesic and Wasserstein distances that the SLE kernel matches or surpasses domain-specific baselines in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
By Marcus M. Noack, Maher B. Alghalayini, Mark D. Risser
arXiv:2606. 15679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic trace estimation is a standard tool for approximating the trace of a large-scale matrix available only through matrix-vector products.
By Zvonimir Bujanovi\'c, Daniel Kressner, Hrvoje Oli\'c
Methods operating on Vision Transformer (ViT) feature spaces typically rely on Euclidean distance or cosine similarity. This assumes that every direction is equally meaningful, but there is no reason...
Cut‑ViT introduces a task‑specific pruning pipeline for visual foundation models that uses gram anchoring matrices and subspace decomposition to align feature representations between native and pruned DINOv3 models. The method incorporates basis‑agnostic and residual constraints to preserve robustness across spatial and channel dimensions, and employs spectral entropy adaptation to tailor the pruning objective to downstream tasks. Experiments demonstrate that Cut‑ViT achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on six tasks across nine datasets while reducing pruning time to about one minute on a single A100 GPU, using only 20.9% of the time and 45.5% of the GPU memory compared to prior methods.
By Jianjian Yin, Liulei Li, Tao Chen, Yi Chen, Yazhou Yao, Wenguan Wang
arXiv:2606. 07205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The attention mechanism is a cornerstone of modern transformer architectures.
By Justin Y. Chen, Ying Feng, Piotr Indyk, Michael Kapralov, Ekaterina Kochetkova, Boris Prokhorov
arXiv:2606. 19411v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Selecting a fixed-size subset that maximizes the determinant of a positive semidefinite kernel is the MAP problem for a size-constrained determinantal point process and the classical maximum-entropy sampling problem.
By Richard Yi Da Xu