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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces finds extensive applications in databases, information retrieval, recommender systems, etc. While graph-based methods have emerged as the leading solution for ANNS due to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiancheng Ruan , Tingyang Chen , Renchi Yang , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods, which automatically learn entire neural model or individual neural cell architectures, have recently achieved competitive or state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on variety of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ansel MacLaughlin , Jwala Dhamala , Anoop Kumar , Sriram Venkatapathy , Ragav Venkatesan , Rahul Gupta

Recently, the expert-crafted neural architectures is increasing overtaken by the utilization of neural architecture search (NAS) and automatic generation (and tuning) of network structures which has a close relation to the Hyperparameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seyed Mahdi Shariatzadeh , Mahmood Fathy , Reza Berangi , Mohammad Shahverdy

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) is one of the most trending Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. It drastically reduces search cost by resorting to weight-sharing. However, it also dramatically reduces the search space, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Alexandre Heuillet , Hedi Tabia , Hichem Arioui , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS), as the core of vector databases (VectorDBs), has become widely used in modern AI and ML systems, powering applications from information retrieval to bio-informatics. While graph-based ANNS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dingyi Kang , Dongming Jiang , Hanshen Yang , Hang Liu , Bingzhe Li

While neural architecture search (NAS) has enabled automated machine learning (AutoML) for well-researched areas, its application to tasks beyond computer vision is still under-explored. As less-studied domains are precisely those where we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Junhong Shen , Mikhail Khodak , Ameet Talwalkar

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) constitutes an important operation in a multitude of applications, including recommendation systems, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In the past decade, graph-based ANNS algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Mengzhao Wang , Xiaoliang Xu , Qiang Yue , Yuxiang Wang

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

We introduce the study of the ant colony house-hunting problem from a distributed computing perspective. When an ant colony's nest becomes unsuitable due to size constraints or damage, the colony must relocate to a new nest. The task of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-15 Mohsen Ghaffari , Cameron Musco , Tsvetomira Radeva , Nancy Lynch

The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have received significant attention due to their promising efficiency. Currently, most BNN studies directly adopt widely-used CNN architectures, which can be suboptimal for BNNs. This paper proposes a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Tianchen Zhao , Xuefei Ning , Xiangsheng Shi , Songyi Yang , Shuang Liang , Peng Lei , Jianfei Chen , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

We present a dynamic algorithm for solving the Longest Common Subsequence Problem using Ant Colony Optimization Technique. The Ant Colony Optimization Technique has been applied to solve many problems in Optimization Theory, Machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Arindam Chaudhuri

Architecture search is the process of automatically learning the neural model or cell structure that best suits the given task. Recently, this approach has shown promising performance improvements (on language modeling and image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are computational models inspired by the central nervous system (especially the brain) of animals and are used to estimate or generate unknown approximation functions relied on large amounts of inputs.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Huayu Li

Architecture search optimizes the structure of a neural network for some task instead of relying on manual authoring. However, it is slow, as each potential architecture is typically trained from scratch. In this paper we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mohan Singamsetti , Anmol Mahajan , Matthew Guzdial

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically find effective architectures within a predefined search space. However, the search space is often extremely large. As a result, directly searching in such a large search space is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Daihai Liao , Fanbing Lv , Hengjie Song , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Mingkui Tan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shifted network design from using human intuition to leveraging search algorithms guided by evaluation metrics. We study channel size optimization in convolutional neural networks (CNN) and identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Jia Shu Zhang , Zhe Liu , Andre Fu , Jingxuan Su , Mathieu Tuli , Sepehr Hosseini , Arsh Kadakia , Haoran Wang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a collection of methods to craft the way neural networks are built. Current NAS methods are far from ab initio and automatic, as they use manual backbone architectures or micro building blocks (cells),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anubhav Garg , Amit Kumar Saha , Debo Dutta