Recent Advances in Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications

A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). This special issue belongs to the section "Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning".

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School of Science, Technology and Health, York St John University, York YO31 7EX, UK
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Department of Computing & Games, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX, UK
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Department of Computer Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, India
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This cooperative Special Issue, conducted in collaboration with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (https://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla22/), presents a platform for original research in Machine Learning (ML) with an emphasis on applications and innovative algorithms and systems. We welcome submissions from a diverse range of ML-related fields, which may include but are not limited to theoretical research, algorithms, and their practical applications. The emergence of Big Data processing has created an urgent need for novel machine learning algorithms to tackle new challenges. We encourage contributions describing cutting-edge machine-learning techniques and algorithms applied to real-world problems, as well as interdisciplinary research employing machine learning in fields such as medicine, biology, industry, manufacturing, security, education, virtual environments, and gaming.

Dr. Uche Onyekpe
Dr. Yordanka Karayaneva
Prof. Dr. Vasile Palade
Prof. Dr. Mohd Arif Wani
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Keywords

  • machine learning
  • evolutionary algorithms
  • neural network learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • machine learning and information retrieval
  • machine learning on the edge
  • hybrid learning algorithms

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Variable Scale Pruning for Transformer Model Compression in End-to-End Speech Recognition
by Leila Ben Letaifa and Jean-Luc Rouas
Algorithms 2023, 16(9), 398; https://doi.org/10.3390/a16090398 - 23 Aug 2023
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Abstract
Transformer models are being increasingly used in end-to-end speech recognition systems for their performance. However, their substantial size poses challenges for deploying them in real-world applications. These models heavily rely on attention and feedforward layers, with the latter containing a vast number of [...] Read more.
Transformer models are being increasingly used in end-to-end speech recognition systems for their performance. However, their substantial size poses challenges for deploying them in real-world applications. These models heavily rely on attention and feedforward layers, with the latter containing a vast number of parameters that significantly contribute to the model’s memory footprint. Consequently, it becomes pertinent to consider pruning these layers to reduce the model’s size. In this article, our primary focus is on the feedforward layers. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of their parameter count and distribution. Specifically, we examine the weight distribution within each layer and observe how the weight values progress across the transformer model’s blocks. Our findings demonstrate a correlation between the depth of the feedforward layers and the magnitude of their weights. Consequently, layers with higher weight values require less pruning. Building upon this insight, we propose a novel pruning algorithm based on variable rates. This approach sets the pruning rate according to the significance and location of each feedforward layer within the network. To evaluate our new pruning method, we conduct experiments on various datasets. The results reveal its superiority over conventional pruning techniques, such as local pruning and global pruning. Full article
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