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Efficient deep learning computing requires algorithm and hardware co-design to enable specialization: we usually need to change the algorithm to reduce memory footprint and improve energy efficiency. However, the extra degree of freedom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Song Han , Han Cai , Ligeng Zhu , Ji Lin , Kuan Wang , Zhijian Liu , Yujun Lin

The design of neural network architectures is frequently either based on human expertise using trial/error and empirical feedback or tackled via large scale reinforcement learning strategies performed over distinct discrete architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yunyang Xiong , Ronak Mehta , Vikas Singh

This paper represents the first effort to explore an automated architecture search for hyperdimensional computing (HDC), a type of brain-inspired neural network. Currently, HDC design is largely carried out in an application-specific ad-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Junhuan Yang , Yi Sheng , Sizhe Zhang , Ruixuan Wang , Kenneth Foreman , Mikell Paige , Xun Jiao , Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

Deep neural networks have proven to be particularly effective in visual and audio recognition tasks. Existing models tend to be computationally expensive and memory intensive, however, and so methods for hardware-oriented approximation have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Erwei Wang , James J. Davis , Ruizhe Zhao , Ho-Cheung Ng , Xinyu Niu , Wayne Luk , Peter Y. K. Cheung , George A. Constantinides

Designing accurate and efficient convolutional neural architectures for vast amount of hardware is challenging because hardware designs are complex and diverse. This paper addresses the hardware diversity challenge in Neural Architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Li Lyna Zhang , Yuqing Yang , Yuhang Jiang , Wenwu Zhu , Yunxin Liu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been growing in popularity. These techniques have been fundamental to automate and speed up the time consuming and error-prone process of synthesizing novel Deep Learning (DL) architectures. NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hadjer Benmeziane , Kaoutar El Maghraoui , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Smail Niar , Martin Wistuba , Naigang Wang

An important step in the task of neural network design, such as hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) or neural architecture search (NAS), is the evaluation of a candidate model's performance. Given fixed computational resources, one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shengcao Cao , Xiaofang Wang , Kris Kitani

Many mission-critical systems are based on GPU for inference. It requires not only high recognition accuracy but also low latency in responding time. Although many studies are devoted to optimizing the structure of deep models for efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Ming Lin , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

The automation of feature extraction of machine learning has been successfully realized by the explosive development of deep learning. However, the structures and hyperparameters of deep neural network architectures also make huge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Wenzhu Shao

Efficient deployment of neural networks (NN) requires the co-optimization of accuracy and latency. For example, hardware-aware neural architecture search has been used to automatically find NN architectures that satisfy a latency constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

This paper addresses the difficult problem of finding an optimal neural architecture design for a given image classification task. We propose a method that aggregates two main results of the previous state-of-the-art in neural architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Moez Baccouche , Stephane Pateux

Transformer-based models have achieved stateof-the-art results in many tasks in natural language processing. However, such models are usually slow at inference time, making deployment difficult. In this paper, we develop an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Henry Tsai , Jayden Ooi , Chun-Sung Ferng , Hyung Won Chung , Jason Riesa

Neural Architecture Search is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods struggle to accurately optimize for real hardware performance, often relying on proxy metrics such as bit operations. We present Surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jason Weitz , Dmitri Demler , Benjamin Hawks , Nhan Tran , Javier Duarte

The rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence necessitates automated approaches to co-design neural network architecture and neural accelerators to maximize system efficiency and address productivity challenges. To enable joint…

Neural architecture search methods are able to find high performance deep learning architectures with minimal effort from an expert. However, current systems focus on specific use-cases (e.g. convolutional image classifiers and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Renato Negrinho , Darshan Patil , Nghia Le , Daniel Ferreira , Matthew Gormley , Geoffrey Gordon

The rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has unveiled critical limitations in current hardware architectures, including constraints in memory capacity, computational efficiency, and interconnection bandwidth. DeepSeek-V3, trained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chenggang Zhao , Chengqi Deng , Chong Ruan , Damai Dai , Huazuo Gao , Jiashi Li , Liyue Zhang , Panpan Huang , Shangyan Zhou , Shirong Ma , Wenfeng Liang , Ying He , Yuqing Wang , Yuxuan Liu , Y. X. Wei

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently become a topic of great interest. However, there is a potentially impactful issue within NAS that remains largely unrecognized: noise. Due to stochastic factors in neural network initialization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu