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Hardness of Low Rank Approximation of Entrywise Transformed Matrix Products

Neural Information Processing Systems

Some related lower bounds include the work of Backurs et al. [2017] that solving kernel Support V ector Machines (SVM), ridge regression, or Principal Component Analysis (PCA) problems to high accuracy or approximating kernel density estimates up to a constant factor for kernels with



A Unified Fast Gradient Clipping Framework for DP-SGD

Neural Information Processing Systems

A well-known numerical bottleneck in the differentially-private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) algorithm is the computation of the gradient norm for each example in a large input batch. When the loss function in DP-SGD consists of an intermediate linear operation, existing methods in the literature have proposed decompositions of gradients that are amenable to fast norm computations. In this paper, we present a framework that generalizes the above approach to arbitrary (possibly nonlinear) intermediate operations. Moreover, we show that for certain operations, such as fully-connected and embedding layer computations, further improvements to the runtime and storage costs of existing decompositions can be deduced using certain components of our framework. Finally, preliminary numerical experiments are given to demonstrate the substantial effects of the aforementioned improvements.



A Dataset for Finding Humans Using Room Acoustics Mason Wang 1 Samuel Clarke

Neural Information Processing Systems

A room's acoustic properties are a product of the room's geometry, the objects within the room, and their specific positions. A room's acoustic properties can be characterized by its impulse response (RIR) between a source and listener