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Automatically Differentiable Nonlinear Tensor Networks (ADNTNs) for Exponential Compression of Deep Neural Networks

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arXiv:2606. 00130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study Automatically Differentiable Nonlinear Tensor Networks (ADNTNs), a family of structured weight generators whose compact core tensors are trained end-to-end by reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD).

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