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When optimizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a specific image-based task, specialists commonly overshoot the number of convolutional layers in their designs. By implication, these CNNs are unnecessarily resource intensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mats L. Richter , Julius Schöning , Anna Wiedenroth , Ulf Krumnack

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in image classification, and evolutionary computation (EC) methods have recently been surging to automatically design the architectures of CNNs to save the tedious…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Bin Wang , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Topology optimization is computationally demanding that requires the assembly and solution to a finite element problem for each material distribution hypothesis. As a complementary alternative to the traditional physics-based topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Saurabh Banga , Harsh Gehani , Sanket Bhilare , Sagar Patel , Levent Kara

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained a remarkable success on many image classification tasks in recent years. However, the performance of CNNs highly relies upon their architectures. For most state-of-the-art CNNs, their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen

Early advancements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architectures are primarily driven by human expertise and by elaborate design processes. Recently, neural architecture search was proposed with the aim of automating the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been established as the main workhorse in image data processing; nonetheless, they require large amounts of data to train, often produce overconfident predictions, and frequently lack the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sarah Harkins Dayton , Hayden Everett , Ioannis Schizas , David L. Boothe , Vasileios Maroulas

Neural networks have recently had a lot of success for many tasks. However, neural network architectures that perform well are still typically designed manually by experts in a cumbersome trial-and-error process. We propose a new method to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Thomas Elsken , Jan-Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

In recent years, the CNN architectures designed by evolution algorithms have proven to be competitive with handcrafted architectures designed by experts. However, these algorithms need a lot of computational power, which is beyond the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Ousmane Youme , Jean Marie Dembele , Eugene C. Ezin , Christophe Cambier

Although convolutional neural network (CNN) has made great progress, large redundant parameters restrict its deployment on embedded devices, especially mobile devices. The recent compression works are focused on real-value convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jiasong Wu , Hongshan Ren , Youyong Kong , Chunfeng Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Recently, there emerged revived interests of designing automatic programs (e.g., using genetic/evolutionary algorithms) to optimize the structure of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for a specific task. The challenge in designing such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Zhe Li , Xuehan Xiong , Zhou Ren , Ning Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang

Compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is essential for transferring the success of CNNs to a wide variety of applications to mobile devices. In contrast to directly recognizing subtle weights or filters as redundant in a given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Jiayan Qiu , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

With the rise of deep learning technology in practical applications, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been able to assist humans in solving many real-world problems. To enhance the performance of CNNs, numerous network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qi Wang , Zijun Gao , Mingxiu Sui , Taiyuan Mei , Xiaohan Cheng , Iris Li

Neural networks have proven effective at solving difficult problems but designing their architectures can be challenging, even for image classification problems alone. Our goal is to minimize human participation, so we employ evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Esteban Real , Sherry Moore , Andrew Selle , Saurabh Saxena , Yutaka Leon Suematsu , Jie Tan , Quoc Le , Alex Kurakin

Data-efficient image classification is a challenging task that aims to solve image classification using small training data. Neural network-based deep learning methods are effective for image classification, but they typically require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ying Bi , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

In this era of artificial intelligence, deep neural networks like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as front-runners, often surpassing human capabilities. These deep networks are often perceived as the panacea for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Neeraj Kumar Singh , Nikhil R. Pal

Convolutional neural networks (CNN's) are powerful and widely used tools. However, their interpretability is far from ideal. One such shortcoming is the difficulty of deducing a network's ability to generalize to unseen data. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Gunnar Carlsson

The published literature on topology optimization has exploded over the last two decades to include methods that use shape and topological derivatives or evolutionary algorithms formulated on various geometric representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 MohammadMahdi Behzadi , Horea T. Ilies

Within the world of machine learning there exists a wide range of different methods with respective advantages and applications. This paper seeks to present and discuss one such method, namely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Lars Lien Ankile , Morgan Feet Heggland , Kjartan Krange

In recent years, the research community has discovered that deep neural networks (DNNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can yield higher accuracy than all previous solutions to a broad array of machine learning problems. To our…

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