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In this paper, we propose Efficient Progressive Neural Architecture Search (EPNAS), a neural architecture search (NAS) that efficiently handles large search space through a novel progressive search policy with performance prediction based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yanqi Zhou , Peng Wang , Sercan Arik , Haonan Yu , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Greg Diamos

Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in high dimensions is an integral part of several computer vision systems and gains importance in deep learning with explicit memory representations. Since PQT, FAISS, and SONG started to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Fabian Groh , Lukas Ruppert , Patrick Wieschollek , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), together with model scaling, has shown remarkable progress in designing high accuracy and fast convolutional architecture families. However, as neither NAS nor model scaling considers sufficient hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Sheng Li , Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Andrew Li , Liqun Cheng , Quoc Le , Norman P. Jouppi

Vector search, the task of finding the k-nearest neighbors of a query vector against a database of high-dimensional vectors, underpins many machine learning applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, recommendation systems, and…

Range-filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (RFANNS) is increasingly critical for modern vector databases. However, existing solutions suffer from severe index inflation and construction overhead. Furthermore, they rely exclusively…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhonggen Li , Haoran Yu , Zixuan Xu , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often computation-intensive for efficient deployment on…

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has emerged as a crucial component of database and AI infrastructure. Ever-increasing vector datasets pose significant challenges in terms of performance, cost, and accuracy for ANNS services. None…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Bing Tian , Haikun Liu , Yuhang Tang , Shihai Xiao , Zhuohui Duan , Xiaofei Liao , Xuecang Zhang , Junhua Zhu , Yu Zhang

Automatic algorithm-hardware co-design for DNN has shown great success in improving the performance of DNNs on FPGAs. However, this process remains challenging due to the intractable search space of neural network architectures and hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhen Dong , Yizhao Gao , Qijing Huang , John Wawrzynek , Hayden K. H. So , Kurt Keutzer

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

We present FMAS, a fast multi-objective neural architecture search framework for semantic segmentation. FMAS subsamples the structure and pre-trained parameters of DeepLabV3+, without fine-tuning, dramatically reducing training time during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zhuoran Xiong , Marihan Amein , Olivier Therrien , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

With the continuous popularity of deep learning and representation learning, fast vector search becomes a vital task in various ranking/retrieval based applications, say recommendation, ads ranking and question answering. Neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Weijie Zhao , Shulong Tan , Ping Li

Hybrid search, which jointly optimizes vector similarity and structured predicate filtering, has become a fundamental building block for modern AI-driven systems. While recent predicate-aware ANN indices improve filtering efficiency on…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinkui Zhao , Hengxuan Lou , Yifan Zhang , Junjie Dai , Shuiguang Deng , Jianwei Yin

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine vector similarity search with large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate, context-aware responses. However, co-locating the vector retriever and the LLM on shared GPU infrastructure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junkyum Kim , Divya Mahajan

In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) framework, namely HSCoNAS, to automate the design of deep neural networks (DNNs) with high accuracy but low latency upon target hardware. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Shuo Huai , Weichen Liu

In high-dimensional vector spaces, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a key component in database and artificial intelligence infrastructures. Graph-based methods, particularly HNSW, have emerged as leading solutions among…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mengzhao Wang , Haotian Wu , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao , Yifan Zhu , Wenchao Zhou

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising technique to design efficient and high-performance deep neural networks (DNNs). As the performance requirements of ML applications grow continuously, the hardware accelerators start playing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guihong Li , Sumit K. Mandal , Umit Y. Ogras , Radu Marculescu

Recently, some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques are proposed for the automatic design of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) architectures. They bring great convenience to the use of GCN, but could hardly apply to the Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chunnan Wang , Bozhou Chen , Geng Li , Hongzhi Wang

Customizing Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) for production use has been a challenging task for DL practitioners. This paper intends to expedite the model customization with a model hub that contains the optimized models tiered by their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Linnan Wang , Chenhan Yu , Satish Salian , Slawomir Kierat , Szymon Migacz , Alex Fit Florea

In the dynamic landscape of large-scale web search, Query-Driven Text Summarization (QDTS) aims to generate concise and informative summaries from textual documents based on a given query, which is essential for improving user engagement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zeyu Xiong , Yixuan Nan , Li Gao , Hengzhu Tang , Shuaiqiang Wang , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Vector search (VS) has become a fundamental component in multimodal data management, enabling core functionalities such as image, video, and code retrieval. As vector data scales rapidly, VS faces growing challenges in balancing search,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yitong Song , Xuanhe Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Jianliang Xu