Sparsity of the Model

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 May 11 1:39
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2025 Nov 14 11:39

Model Sparsity Overview

Model sparsity reduces
Model Complexity
by eliminating parameters that are non-zero but meaningless, effectively decreasing the number of parameters that contribute little to model performance.

Regularization Techniques

  • L0 Norm
    directly counts non-zero parameters and induces sparsity by encouraging parameters to become exactly zero in the model's loss function.
  • L1 Norm
    promotes sparsity by penalizing the absolute values of parameters. However, it is not differentiable at zero, which can pose challenges for gradient-based optimization methods.
Model Sparsity Notion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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