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We investigate the task of complex NER for the English language. The task is non-trivial due to the semantic ambiguity of the textual structure and the rarity of occurrence of such entities in the prevalent literature. Using pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Amit Pandey , Swayatta Daw , Vikram Pudi

While very deep neural networks have shown effectiveness for computer vision and text classification applications, how to increase the network depth of neural machine translation (NMT) models for better translation quality remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Lijun Wu , Yiren Wang , Yingce Xia , Fei Tian , Fei Gao , Tao Qin , Jianhuang Lai , Tie-Yan Liu

Introducing factors, that is to say, word features such as linguistic information referring to the source tokens, is known to improve the results of neural machine translation systems in certain settings, typically in recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Jordi Armengol-Estapé , Marta R. Costa-jussà , Carlos Escolano

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in many applications. The architectures of DNNs play a crucial role in their performance, which is usually manually designed with rich expertise. However, such a design process is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen , Kay Chen Tan

Neural architecture search (NAS) in expressive search spaces is a computationally hard problem, but it also holds the potential to automatically discover completely novel and performant architectures. To achieve this we need effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Adri Gómez Martín , Felix Möller , Steven McDonagh , Monica Abella , Manuel Desco , Elliot J. Crowley , Aaron Klein , Linus Ericsson

When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters - population size, mutation rate, cloning rate, and number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William J. Teahan

Transferable neural architecture search (TNAS) has been introduced to design efficient neural architectures for multiple tasks, to enhance the practical applicability of NAS in real-world scenarios. In TNAS, architectural knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xun Zhou , Xingyu Wu , Liang Feng , Zhichao Lu , Kay Chen Tan

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) models are proposed to accelerate the inference process while maintaining relatively high performance. However, existing NAT models are difficult to achieve the desired efficiency-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Pei Guo , Yisheng Xiao , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of Neural Architecture Search (NAS), emphasizing its evolution from manual design to automated, computationally-driven approaches. It covers the inception and growth of NAS, highlighting its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Fanfei Meng , Chen-Ao Wang , Lele Zhang

Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Krzysztof Maziarz , Mingxing Tan , Andrey Khorlin , Marin Georgiev , Andrea Gesmundo

Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models, which remove the dependence on previous target tokens from the inputs of the decoder, achieve significantly inference speedup but at the cost of inferior accuracy compared to autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Di He , Tao Qin , Linli Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have traditionally been explored by human experts in a manual search process that is time-consuming and ineffectively explores the massive space of potential solutions. Neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Gerard Jacques van Wyk , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) reduce the inference latency of Autoregressive Transformers (ATs) by predicting words all at once rather than in sequential order. They have achieved remarkable progress in machine translation as well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chenxin An , Jiangtao Feng , Fei Huang , Xipeng Qiu , Lingpeng Kong

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in the field of automated machine learning (AutoML). NAS has outperformed hand-designed networks and made a significant step forward in the field of automating the design of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matej Grobelnik , Joaquin Vanschoren

In machine learning, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) requires domain knowledge of model design and a large amount of trial-and-error to achieve promising performance. Meanwhile, evolutionary algorithms have traditionally relied on fixed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-04 YiMing Yu , Jason Zutty

On-device ML accelerators are becoming a standard in modern mobile system-on-chips (SoC). Neural architecture search (NAS) comes to the rescue for efficiently utilizing the high compute throughput offered by these accelerators. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Berkin Akin , Suyog Gupta , Yun Long , Anton Spiridonov , Zhuo Wang , Marie White , Hao Xu , Ping Zhou , Yanqi Zhou

Neural network architectures found by sophistic search algorithms achieve strikingly good test performance, surpassing most human-crafted network models by significant margins. Although computationally efficient, their design is often very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

Transformer-based entity matching methods have significantly moved the state of the art for less-structured matching tasks such as matching product offers in e-commerce. In order to excel at these tasks, Transformer-based matching methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer