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For the goal of automated design of high-performance deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methodology is becoming increasingly important for both academia and industries.Due to the costly stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shengran Hu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He , Zhichao Lu , Jing Wang , Miao Zhang

Given that conventional recommenders, while deeply effective, rely on large distributed systems pre-trained on aggregate user data, incorporating new data necessitates large training cycles, making them slow to adapt to real-time user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rafayel Latif , Satwik Behera , Ali Al-Ebrahim

This paper addresses how a recursive neural network model can automatically leave out useless information and emphasize important evidence, in other words, to perform "weight tuning" for higher-level representation acquisition. We propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jiwei Li

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) produce state-of-art performance on many machine learning tasks but their demand on resources in terms of memory and computational power are often high. Therefore, there is a great interest in optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Joachim Ott , Zhouhan Lin , Ying Zhang , Shih-Chii Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Training deep neural networks with noise and data heterogeneity is a major challenge. We introduce Lightweight Learnable Adaptive Weighting (LiLAW), a method that dynamically adjusts the loss weight of each training sample based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abhishek Moturu , Muhammad Muzammil , Anna Goldenberg , Babak Taati

We introduce a DNN training technique that learns only a fraction of the full parameter set without incurring an accuracy penalty. To do this, our algorithm constrains the total number of weights updated during backpropagation to those with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

In data-parallel synchronous training of deep neural networks, different devices (replicas) run the same program with different partitions of the training batch, but weight update computation is repeated on all replicas, because the weights…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yuanzhong Xu , HyoukJoong Lee , Dehao Chen , Hongjun Choi , Blake Hechtman , Shibo Wang

Increasing demands for adaptability, privacy, and security at the edge have persistently pushed the frontiers for a new generation of machine learning (ML) algorithms with training and inference capabilities on-chip. Weightless Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shengyu Duan , Marcos L. L. Sartori , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev

Batch normalization (BN) is a key facilitator and considered essential for state-of-the-art binary neural networks (BNN). However, the BN layer is costly to calculate and is typically implemented with non-binary parameters, leaving a hurdle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xu Ouyang , Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhangyang Wang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are highly effective unsupervised learning frameworks that can generate very sharp data, even for data such as images with complex, highly multimodal distributions. However GANs are known to be very…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Sitao Xiang , Hao Li

Hyperparameters tuning is a time-consuming approach, particularly when the architecture of the neural network is decided as part of this process. For instance, in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the selection of the number and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Roberto L. Castro , Diego Andrade , Basilio Fraguela

Deep neural networks have been proven to be highly effective tools in various domains, yet their computational and memory costs restrict them from being widely deployed on portable devices. The recent rapid increase of edge computing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ayan Shymyrbay , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil

The prediction accuracy of the deep neural networks (DNNs) after deployment at the edge can suffer with time due to shifts in the distribution of the new data. To improve robustness of DNNs, they must be able to update themselves to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kshitij Bhardwaj , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Maya Gokhale

Learning in deep weight spaces (DWS), where neural networks process the weights of other neural networks, is an emerging research direction, with applications to 2D and 3D neural fields (INRs, NeRFs), as well as making inferences about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Aviv Shamsian , Aviv Navon , David W. Zhang , Yan Zhang , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

Large-scale deep neural networks (DNN) have been successfully used in a number of tasks from image recognition to natural language processing. They are trained using large training sets on large models, making them computationally and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Sek Chai , Aswin Raghavan , David Zhang , Mohamed Amer , Tim Shields

The recent progress on automatically searching augmentation policies has boosted the performance substantially for various tasks. A key component of automatic augmentation search is the evaluation process for a particular augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Keyu Tian , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Luping Zhou , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Obesity is a serious public health concern world-wide, which increases the risk of many diseases, including hypertension, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. To tackle this problem, researchers across the health ecosystem are collecting diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Qinghan Xue , Xiaoran Wang , Samuel Meehan , Jilong Kuang , Alex Gao , Mooi Choo Chuah

Conventional training methods for artificial neural network (ANN) models never achieve zero error rate systematically for large data. A new training method consists of three steps: first create an auxiliary data from conventionally trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bo Deng

Neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms save tremendous labor from human experts. Recent advancements further reduce the computational overhead to an affordable level. However, it is still cumbersome to deploy the NAS techniques in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zhuowei Li , Yibo Gao , Zhenzhou Zha , Zhiqiang HU , Qing Xia , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world. Although adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective methodologies to robustify DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yize Li , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn