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One-Shot methods have evolved into one of the most popular methods in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) due to weight sharing and single training of a supernet. However, existing methods generally suffer from two issues: predetermined number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zan Shen , Jiang Qian , Bojin Zhuang , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

In mobile crowdsensing, finding the best match between tasks and users is crucial to ensure both the quality and effectiveness of a crowdsensing system. Existing works usually assume a centralized task assignment by the crowdsensing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Shuo Yang , Zhenzhe Zheng , Shaojie Tang , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

We present an elegant framework of fine-grained neural architecture search (FGNAS), which allows to employ multiple heterogeneous operations within a single layer and can even generate compositional feature maps using several different base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Heewon Kim , Seokil Hong , Bohyung Han , Heesoo Myeong , Kyoung Mu Lee

Neural architecture search (NAS) can have a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing optimal neural network architectures for various tasks. A variant, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Rongrong Ji

A major challenge in recommender systems is handling new users, whom are also called $\textit{cold-start}$ users. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning an optimal series of questions with which to interview cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Hima Varsha Dureddy , Zachary Kaden

Subset selection tasks, arise in recommendation systems and search engines and ask to select a subset of items that maximize the value for the user. The values of subsets often display diminishing returns, and hence, submodular functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Anay Mehrotra , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Although Recommender Systems have been comprehensively studied in the past decade both in industry and academia, most of current recommender systems suffer from the following issues: 1) The data sparsity of the user-item matrix seriously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ze Wang , Hong Li

Mitigating the new user cold-start problem has been critical in the recommendation system for online service providers to influence user experience in decision making which can ultimately affect the intention of users to use a particular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Po-Lin Lai , Chih-Yun Chen , Liang-Wei Lo , Chien-Chin Chen

Recommender systems are popular in e-commerce as they suggest items of interest to users. Researchers have addressed the cold-start problem where either the user or the item is new. However, the situation with both new user and new item has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Fan Min , William Zhu

Selecting appropriate physical models is a critical yet difficult step in many areas of computational science and engineering. In multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), practitioners must choose among numerous closure model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 S. Hänsch , A. Sajdoková , A. Rębowski , F. Miškařík , K. Ramakrishna , F. Schlegel , V. Rybář , R. Alves , P. Kordík

The cold-start user issue further compromises the effectiveness of recommender systems in limiting access to the historical behavioral information. It is an effective pipeline to optimize instructional prompts on a few-shot large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haowei Yang , Yushang Zhao , Sitao Min , Bo Su , Chao Yao , Wei Xu

Among the machine learning applications to business, recommender systems would take one of the top places when it comes to success and adoption. They help the user in accelerating the process of search while helping businesses maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Kiran Rama , Pradeep Kumar , Bharat Bhasker

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 An-Chieh Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Min Sun

Convolutional Neural Networks have been used in a variety of image related applications after their rise in popularity due to ImageNet competition. Convolutional Neural Networks have shown remarkable results in applications including face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Anshumaan Chauhan , Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , S. Vadivel

Sequential recommenders have made great strides in capturing a user's preferences. Nevertheless, the cold-start recommendation remains a fundamental challenge as they typically involve limited user-item interactions for personalization.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Minchang Kim , Yongjin Yang , Jung Hyun Ryu , Taesup Kim

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

Designing effective neural networks is fundamentally important in deep multimodal learning. Most existing works focus on a single task and design neural architectures manually, which are highly task-specific and hard to generalize to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhou Yu , Yuhao Cui , Jun Yu , Meng Wang , Dacheng Tao , Qi Tian

Machine learning promotes the continuous development of signal processing in various fields, including network traffic monitoring, EEG classification, face identification, and many more. However, massive user data collected for training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Fuyi Wang , Leo Yu Zhang , Lei Pan , Shengshan Hu , Robin Doss

Cold-start has being a critical issue in recommender systems with the explosion of data in e-commerce. Most existing studies proposed to alleviate the cold-start problem are also known as hybrid recommender systems that learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yan Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Lixin Duan

Visible-Infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) aims to match cross-modality pedestrian images, breaking through the limitation of single-modality person ReID in dark environment. In order to mitigate the impact of large modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Chaoyou Fu , Yibo Hu , Xiang Wu , Hailin Shi , Tao Mei , Ran He