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Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a key retrieval technique for vector database and many data center applications, such as person re-identification and recommendation systems. It is also fundamental to retrieval augmented…

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This survey paper presents a comprehensive examination of Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture search (SNNaS) from a unique hardware/software co-design perspective. SNNs, inspired by biological neurons, have emerged as a promising…

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In the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has become an increasingly important tool within the deep learning community. Despite the many recent successes of NAS, however, most existing approaches operate within highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Charles Jin , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana , Sudip Roy

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a swarm intelligence methodology utilized for solving optimization problems through information transmission mediated by pheromones. As ants sequentially secrete pheromones that subsequently evaporate, the…

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Datacenter network design plays a critical role in AI training by supporting scaling to thousands of accelerators. An open problem, designing a near-optimal throughput oriented network-topology, routing, and collectives-has not been…

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The recent WSNet [1] is a new model compression method through sampling filterweights from a compact set and has demonstrated to be effective for 1D convolutionneural networks (CNNs). However, the weights sampling strategy of WSNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Daquan Zhou , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Kaixin Wang , Jianchao Yang , Jiashi Feng

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) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

Neural network architecture search provides a solution to the automatic design of network structures. However, it is difficult to search the whole network architecture directly. Although using stacked cells to search neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Juan Zou , Shenghong Wu , Yizhang Xia , Weiwei Jiang , Zeping Wu , Jinhua Zheng

Approximate K Nearest Neighbor (AKNN) algorithms play a pivotal role in various AI applications, including information retrieval, computer vision, and natural language processing. Although numerous AKNN algorithms and benchmarks have been…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Xianzhi Zeng , Zhuoyan Wu , Xinjing Hu , Xuanhua Shi , Shixuan Sun , Shuhao Zhang

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) has seen a steep rise in interest over the last few years. Many algorithms for NAS consist of searching through a space of architectures by iteratively choosing an architecture, evaluating its performance by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Colin White , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani

Filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) restricts the search to data objects whose attributes satisfy a given filter and retrieves the top-$K$ objects that are most semantically similar to the query object. Many graph-based ANNS…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tianming Wu , Dixin Tang

In this work, we show that simultaneously training and mixing neural networks is a promising way to conduct Neural Architecture Search (NAS). For hyperparameter optimization, reusing the partially trained weights allows for efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alexander Chebykin , Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great success in automating the design of neural networks, but the prohibitive amount of computations behind current NAS methods requires further investigations in improving the sample efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Linnan Wang , Yiyang Zhao , Yuu Jinnai , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a promising avenue for automatically designing task-specific neural networks. Existing NAS approaches require one complete search for each deployment specification of hardware or objective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhichao Lu , Gautam Sreekumar , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become increasingly popular in the deep learning community recently, mainly because it can provide an opportunity to allow interested users without rich expertise to benefit from the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shiqing Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) marks a milestone in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), boasting simplicity and small search costs. However, DARTS still suffers from frequent performance collapse, which happens when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin , Yukang Chen

Given a vector dataset $\mathcal{X}$ and a query vector $\vec{x}_q$, graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) aims to build a graph index $G$ and approximately return vectors with minimum distances to $\vec{x}_q$ by searching…

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