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The Benefits of Sparsity in Learning Algorithms
In certain model compression techniques and paradigms you can exploit part sparsity to drastically reduce memory overheads. There are domains where that is true. From a learning algorithm perspective I tend to think of sparsity as not being a friend of any algorithm that's trying to learn from the data but there are probably a lot of areas below the learning algorithm itself where sparsity becomes quite beneficial. And so it's something you get to choose before you start modeling.