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Finding optimal channel dimensions (i.e., the number of filters in DNN layers) is essential to design DNNs that perform well under computational resource constraints. Recent work in neural architecture search aims at automating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Pascal Frossard

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

While linear attention reduces the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers to linear time, it often lags behind in expressivity due to the removal of softmax normalization. This omission eliminates \emph{global competition}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mingwei Xu , Xuan Lin , Xinnan Guo , Wanqing Xu , Wanyun Cui

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an effective continuous relaxation-based network architecture search (NAS) method with low search cost. It has attracted significant attentions in Auto-ML research and becomes one of the most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jun-Wei Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang , Ping-Yang Chen , Santanu Santra , Cheng-Han Chou , Chih-Sheng Huang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have pushed the state-of-the-art for various visual recognition tasks by patch-wise image tokenization followed by self-attention. However, the employment of self-attention modules results in a quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jiachen Lu , Jinghan Yao , Junge Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Hang Xu , Weiguo Gao , Chunjing Xu , Tao Xiang , Li Zhang

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

Recent advances in adversarial attacks show the vulnerability of deep neural networks searched by Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although NAS methods can find network architectures with the state-of-the-art performance, the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhixiong Yue , Baijiong Lin , Xiaonan Huang , Yu Zhang

The Transformer model has been pivotal in advancing fields such as natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision. However, a critical limitation of this model is its quadratic computational and memory complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Firas Khader , Omar S. M. El Nahhas , Tianyu Han , Gustav Müller-Franzes , Sven Nebelung , Jakob Nikolas Kather , Daniel Truhn

Efficiently supporting long context length is crucial for Transformer models. The quadratic complexity of the self-attention computation plagues traditional Transformers. Sliding window-based static sparse attention mitigates the problem by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Dangi , Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Andrea Massa , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

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) has become the de-facto approach for designing accurate and efficient networks for edge devices. Since models are typically quantized for edge deployment, recent work has investigated quantization-aware NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yao Lu , Hiram Rayo Torres Rodriguez , Sebastian Vogel , Nick van de Waterlaat , Pavol Jancura

Reinforcement Learning has yielded promising results for Neural Architecture Search (NAS). In this paper, we demonstrate how its performance can be improved by using a simplified Transformer block to model the policy network. The simplified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Chepuri Shri Krishna , Ashish Gupta , Swarnim Narayan , Himanshu Rai , Diksha Manchanda

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) technologies have been proposed to automate and speed up model design to meet both quality and inference efficiency requirements on a given hardware. Prior arts have shown the capability of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Qian Xu , Victor Li , Crews Darren S

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have attracted much attention and outperformed manually designed architectures on a few high-level vision tasks. In this paper, we propose HiNAS (Hierarchical NAS), an effort towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained enormous popularity in the field of artificial intelligence due to their low power consumption. However, the majority of SNN methods directly inherit the structure of Artificial Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilei Man , Linhai Xie , Shushan Qiao , Yumei Zhou , Delong Shang

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

Multimodal Transformers serve as the backbone for state-of-the-art vision-language models, yet their quadratic attention complexity remains a critical barrier to scalability. In this work, we investigate the viability of Linear Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Armin Gerami , Seyedehanita Madani , Ramani Duraiswami

Hybrids of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) have outperformed pure CNN or ViT architecture. However, since these architectures require large parameters and incur large computational costs, they are unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mikhael Djajapermana , Moritz Reiber , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann

Despite the success of recent Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods on various tasks which have shown to output networks that largely outperform human-designed networks, conventional NAS methods have mostly tackled the optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Hayeon Lee , Eunyoung Hyung , Sung Ju Hwang