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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

The best neural architecture for a given machine learning problem depends on many factors: not only the complexity and structure of the dataset, but also on resource constraints including latency, compute, energy consumption, etc. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Chengrun Yang , Gabriel Bender , Hanxiao Liu , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Madeleine Udell , Yifeng Lu , Quoc Le , Da Huang

Designing quantum neural networks (QNNs) that are both accurate and deployable on NISQ hardware is challenging. Handcrafted ansatze must balance expressivity, trainability, and resource use, while limited qubits often necessitate circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kooshan Maleki , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Optimizing resource utilization in target platforms is key to achieving high performance during DNN inference. While optimizations have been proposed for inference latency, memory footprint, and energy consumption, prior hardware-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler , Nikolaos Dimitriadis , Pascal Frossard

Deep neural networks (DNNs) deployed in a cloud often allow users to query models via the APIs. However, these APIs expose the models to model extraction attacks (MEAs). In this attack, the attacker attempts to duplicate the target model by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Satoru Koda , Ikuya Morikawa

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a collection of methods to craft the way neural networks are built. We apply this idea to Federated Learning (FL), wherein predefined neural network models are trained on the client/device data. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Anubhav Garg , Amit Kumar Saha , Debo Dutta

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shen Yan , Biyi Fang , Faen Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xiao Zeng , Hui Xu , Mi Zhang

Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yong Guo , Yin Zheng , Mingkui Tan , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as one successful technique to find robust deep neural network (DNN) architectures. However, most existing robustness evaluations in NAS only consider $l_{\infty}$ norm-based adversarial noises.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Jialiang Sun , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaoqian Chen

The wide deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in high-performance cloud computing platforms brought to light multi-tenant cloud field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) as a popular choice of accelerator to boost performance due to its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Yukui Luo , Xiaolin Xu , Deliang Fan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. While numerous successful adversarial attacks have been proposed, defenses against these attacks remain relatively understudied. Existing defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Recently backdoor attack has become an emerging threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. To date, most of the existing studies focus on backdoor attack against the uncompressed model; while the vulnerability of compressed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Huy Phan , Cong Shi , Yi Xie , Tianfang Zhang , Zhuohang Li , Tianming Zhao , Jian Liu , Yan Wang , Yingying Chen , Bo Yuan

Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained significant traction in automating the design of neural networks. To reduce search time, differentiable architecture search (DAS) reframes the traditional paradigm of discrete candidate sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoyun Liu , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuqing Zhao , Penghui Ruan

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

In this paper, we assess the security and testability of the state-of-the-art design-for-security (DFS) architectures in the presence of scan-chain locking/obfuscation, a group of solution that has previously proposed to restrict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hadi Mardani Kamali , Kimia Zamiri Azar , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

With the tremendous advances in the architecture and scale of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) over the past few decades, they can easily reach or even exceed the performance of humans in certain tasks. However, a recently discovered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yanxi Li , Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

We achieve very efficient deep learning model deployment that designs neural network architectures to fit different hardware constraints. Given a constraint, most neural architecture search (NAS) methods either sample a set of sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Sian-Yao Huang , Wei-Ta Chu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an important yet challenging task in network design due to its high computational consumption. To address this issue, we propose the Reinforced Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (RE- NAS), which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yukang Chen , Gaofeng Meng , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chang Huang , Lisen Mu , Xinggang Wang