Slide: In defense of smart algorithms over hardware acceleration for large-scale deep learning systems

B Chen, T Medini, J Farwell, C Tai… - … of Machine Learning …, 2020 - proceedings.mlsys.org
Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine learning systems.
As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to train large neural networks with …

Space and time efficient kernel density estimation in high dimensions

A Backurs, P Indyk, T Wagner - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Recently, Charikar and Siminelakis (2017) presented a framework for kernel
density estimation in provably sublinear query time, for kernels that possess a certain …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-view geolocalization and disaster map** with street-view and VHR satellite imagery: A case study of Hurricane IAN

H Li, F Deuser, W Yin, X Luo, P Walther, G Mai… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Nature disasters play a key role in sha** human-urban infrastructure interactions. Effective
and efficient response to natural disasters is essential for building resilience and sustainable …

Kernel density estimation through density constrained near neighbor search

M Charikar, M Kapralov, N Nouri… - 2020 IEEE 61st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we revisit the kernel density estimation problem: given a kernel K (x, y) and a
dataset of n points in high dimensional Euclidean space, prepare a data structure that can …

Rehashing kernel evaluation in high dimensions

P Siminelakis, K Rong, P Bailis… - International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Kernel methods are effective but do not scale well to large scale data, especially in high
dimensions where the geometric data structures used to accelerate kernel evaluation suffer …

A tale of two efficient value iteration algorithms for solving linear mdps with large action space

Z Xu, Z Song, A Shrivastava - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Markov Decision Process (MDP) with large action space naturally occurs in many
applications such as language processing, information retrieval, and recommendation …

Sublinear least-squares value iteration via locality sensitive hashing

A Shrivastava, Z Song, Z Xu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.08285, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present the first provable Least-Squares Value Iteration (LSVI) algorithms that have
runtime complexity sublinear in the number of actions. We formulate the value function …

Unique entity estimation with application to the Syrian conflict

B Chen, A Shrivastava, RC Steorts - The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2018 - JSTOR
Entity resolution identifies and removes duplicate entities in large, noisy databases and has
grown in both usage and new developments as a result of increased data availability …

[PDF][PDF] Mutual Information Estimation using LSH Sampling.

R Spring, A Shrivastava - IJCAI, 2020 - ijcai.org
Learning representations in an unsupervised or self-supervised manner is a growing area of
research. Current approaches in representation learning seek to maximize the mutual …

Rose: Robust caches for amazon product search

C Luo, V Lakshman, A Shrivastava, T Cao… - … Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Product search engines like Amazon Search often use caches to improve the customer user
experience; caches can improve both the system's latency as well as search quality …