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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful approach for automating neural network design. However, existing NAS methods face critical limitations in real-world deployments: architectures lack adaptability across scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Maolin Wang , Tianshuo Wei , Sheng Zhang , Ruocheng Guo , Wanyu Wang , Shanshan Ye , Lixin Zou , Xuetao Wei , Xiangyu Zhao

Deep learning models operating in the image domain are vulnerable to small input perturbations. For years, robustness to such perturbations was pursued by training models from scratch (i.e., with random initializations) using specialized…

Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) aims to train a single agent to efficiently optimize performance across multiple tasks simultaneously. However, jointly optimizing all tasks often yields imbalanced learning: agents quickly solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Nicholas E. Corrado , Wenyuan Huang , Josiah P. Hanna

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) was first proposed to achieve state-of-the-art performance through the discovery of new architecture patterns, without human intervention. An over-reliance on expert knowledge in the search space design has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Binxin Ru , Pedro Esperanca , Fabio Carlucci

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Differentiable architecture search is prevalent in the field of NAS because of its simplicity and efficiency, where two paradigms, multi-path algorithms and single-path methods, are dominated. Multi-path framework (e.g. DARTS) is intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haoxian Tan , Sheng Guo , Yujie Zhong , Matthew R. Scott , Weilin Huang

In recent years, the learned local descriptors have outperformed handcrafted ones by a large margin, due to the powerful deep convolutional neural network architectures such as L2-Net [1] and triplet based metric learning [2]. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Chaohui Wang

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

In many real-world applications, we often need to handle various deployment scenarios, where the resource constraint and the superclass of interest corresponding to a group of classes are dynamically specified. How to efficiently deploy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jing Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan , Xu Liu , Dinh Phung , Yuanqing Li , Jianfei Cai

Differential Attention (DA) has been proposed as a refinement to standard attention, suppressing redundant or noisy context through a subtractive structure and thereby reducing contextual hallucination. While this design sharpens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tsubasa Takahashi , Shojiro Yamabe , Futa Waseda , Kento Sasaki

Differentiable neural architecture search methods became popular in recent years, mainly due to their low search costs and flexibility in designing the search space. However, these methods suffer the difficulty in optimizing network, so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Yuhui Xu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Bowen Shi , Qi Tian , Hongkai Xiong

Recent work in network quantization has substantially reduced the time and space complexity of neural network inference, enabling their deployment on embedded and mobile devices with limited computational and memory resources. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Bichen Wu , Yanghan Wang , Peizhao Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Peter Vajda , Kurt Keutzer

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture design processes and improve the performance of deep neural networks. Platform-aware NAS methods consider both performance and complexity and can find well-performing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuhei Noda , Shota Saito , Shinichi Shirakawa

Randomized controlled trials typically assume that prognostic covariates are known and available at no cost. In practice, obtaining high-dimensional pretreatment data is costly, forcing a trade-off between covariate-adaptive precision and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Kateryna Husar , Alexander Volfovsky

Recent research works establish deep neural networks as high performing tools for radar target detection, especially on challenging environments (presence of clutter or interferences, multi-target scenarii...). However, the usually large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Noé Lallouet , Tristan Cazenave , Cyrille Enderli , Stéphanie Gourdin

Neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable results in deep neural network design. Differentiable architecture search converts the search over discrete architectures into a hyperparameter optimization problem which can be…

The problem of adversarial examples has shown that modern Neural Network (NN) models could be rather fragile. Among the more established techniques to solve the problem, one is to require the model to be {\it $\epsilon$-adversarially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yuxin Wen , Shuai Li , Kui Jia

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have positioned deep learning (DL) as a pivotal technology in fields like computer vision, data mining, and natural language processing. A critical factor in DL performance is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jiaming Yan

Deep neural networks tend to underestimate uncertainty and produce overly confident predictions. Recently proposed solutions, such as MC Dropout and SDENet, require complex training and/or auxiliary out-of-distribution data. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Akib Mashrur , Wei Luo , Nayyar A. Zaidi , Antonio Robles-Kelly

Recent developments in neural architecture search (NAS) emphasize the significance of considering robust architectures against malicious data. However, there is a notable absence of benchmark evaluations and theoretical guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yongtao Wu , Fanghui Liu , Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel , Grigorios G Chrysos , Volkan Cevher