One of the major challenges in large-scale distributed machine learning involving stochastic gradient methods is the high cost of gradient communication ove...

Pruning methods for deep neural networks based on weight magnitude have shown promise in recent research. We propose a new, highly flexible approach to neura...

The past few years have seen the ability of cooperative Malware Detection Systems (MDS) to detect complex and unknown malware. In a cooperative setting, an M...

The design of compact deep neural networks is a crucial task to enable widespread adoption of deep neural networks in the real-world, particularly for edge a...

Knowledge distillation is a technique that consists in training a student network, usually of a low capacity, to mimic the representation space and the perfo...

In time-to-event data analysis, the main object of interest is the time elapsed between the occurrence of two ordered events, say $E_1, E_2$. Sampling fr...

Training large-scale deep neural networks is a long, time-consuming operation, often requiring many GPUs to accelerate. In large models, the time spent loadi...

Binary neural networks improve computationally efficiency of deep models with a large margin. However, there is still a performance gap between a successful...

Min-max formulations have attracted great attention in the ML community due to the rise of deep generative models and adversarial methods, while understandin...

The determinantal point process (DPP) provides a promising and attractive alternative to simple random sampling in cluster analysis or classification, for th...

Deep neural networks usually have unnecessarily high complexities and possibly many features of low utility, especially for tasks that they are not designed ...

We introduce a novel ensemble learning approach which combines random partitions models through Potts clustering with a non-parametric predictor such as sha...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large ...

Implementation of quantized neural networks on computing hardware leads to considerable speed up and memory saving. However, quantized deep networks are diff...

In the area of hydraulic power generation, there is a great deal of interest in two interdependent domains: operation and maintenance. This interdependence...

The popularity of drones is rapidly increasing across the different sectors of the economy. Aerial capabilities and relatively low costs make drones the perf...

The context of this research is multiobjective optimization where conflicting objectives are present. In this work, these objectives are only available as th...

Traditionally, the design of supply chains for humanitarian operations has been developed distinctly for the different disaster management phases, with littl...

Cities worldwide struggle with overloaded transportation systems and their externalities, such as traffic congestion and emissions. The emerging technology o...

Maintenance planning for hydropower plants is a crucial problem. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the Hydropower Production Function (HPF) formulatio...