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Autores principales: Wilson, Paul, Zanasi, Fabio, Constantinides, George
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04051
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author Wilson, Paul
Zanasi, Fabio
Constantinides, George
author_facet Wilson, Paul
Zanasi, Fabio
Constantinides, George
contents Modern deep learning models require immense computational resources, motivating research into low-precision training. Quantised training addresses this by representing training components in low-bit integers, but typically relies on discretising real-valued updates. We introduce an alternative approach where the update rule itself is discrete, avoiding the quantisation of continuous updates by design. We establish convergence guarantees for a general class of such discrete schemes, and present a multinomial update rule as a concrete example, supported by empirical evaluation. This perspective opens new avenues for efficient training, particularly for models with inherently discrete structure.
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spellingShingle Convergence for Discrete Parameter Update Schemes
Wilson, Paul
Zanasi, Fabio
Constantinides, George
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Modern deep learning models require immense computational resources, motivating research into low-precision training. Quantised training addresses this by representing training components in low-bit integers, but typically relies on discretising real-valued updates. We introduce an alternative approach where the update rule itself is discrete, avoiding the quantisation of continuous updates by design. We establish convergence guarantees for a general class of such discrete schemes, and present a multinomial update rule as a concrete example, supported by empirical evaluation. This perspective opens new avenues for efficient training, particularly for models with inherently discrete structure.
title Convergence for Discrete Parameter Update Schemes
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04051