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Emergent hardwares can support mixed precision CNN models inference that assign different bitwidths for different layers. Learning to find an optimal mixed precision model that can preserve accuracy and satisfy the specific constraints on…
This paper proposes a Bayes Net based Monte Carlo optimization for motion planning (BN-MCO). Primarily, we adjust the potential fields determined by goal and start constraints to progressively guide the sampled clusters toward the goal and…
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Feature selection (FS) has become an indispensable task in dealing with today's highly complex pattern recognition problems with massive number of features. In this study, we propose a new wrapper approach for FS based on binary…
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It is known that unsupervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction and clustering is sensitive to the selection of hyperparameters, particularly for deep learning based methods, which hinders its practical use. How to select a proper network…