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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are powerful machine learning models and have succeeded in various artificial intelligence tasks. Although various architectures and modules for the DNNs have been proposed, selecting and designing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Shinichi Shirakawa , Yasushi Iwata , Youhei Akimoto

Although remarkable progress has been made on single image super-resolution due to the revival of deep convolutional neural networks, deep learning methods are confronted with the challenges of computation and memory consumption in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Dehua Song , Chang Xu , Xu Jia , Yiyi Chen , Chunjing Xu , Yunhe Wang

The design of neural network architectures is an important component for achieving state-of-the-art performance with machine learning systems across a broad array of tasks. Much work has endeavored to design and build architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Liang-Chieh Chen , Maxwell D. Collins , Yukun Zhu , George Papandreou , Barret Zoph , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Jonathon Shlens

This paper proposes a new extension to Deep Evolutionary Network Structured Evolution (DENSER), called Fast-DENSER++ (F-DENSER++). The vast majority of NeuroEvolution methods that optimise Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DANNs) only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado , Bernardete Ribeiro

Our proposal is on a new stochastic optimizer for non-convex and possibly non-smooth objective functions typically defined over large dimensional design spaces. Towards this, we have tried to bridge noise-assisted global search and faster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Uttam Suman , Mariya Mamajiwala , Mukul Saxena , Ankit Tyagi , Debasish Roy

Classical approaches for estimating optical flow have achieved rapid progress in the last decade. However, most of them are too slow to be applied in real-time video analysis. Due to the great success of deep learning, recent work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Dense retrieval has become the industry standard in large-scale information retrieval systems due to its high efficiency and competitive accuracy. Its core relies on a coarse-to-fine hierarchical architecture that enables rapid candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Huimu Wang , Yiming Qiu , Xingzhi Yao , Zhiguo Chen , Guoyu Tang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Mingming Li

In recent years, deep neural networks have had great success in machine learning and pattern recognition. Architecture size for a neural network contributes significantly to the success of any neural network. In this study, we optimize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yigit Alparslan , Ethan Jacob Moyer , Isamu Mclean Isozaki , Daniel Schwartz , Adam Dunlop , Shesh Dave , Edward Kim

Recently Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has aroused great interest in both academia and industry, however it remains challenging because of its huge and non-continuous search space. Instead of applying evolutionary algorithm or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xinbang Zhang , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

In this paper, we aim at automatically searching an efficient network architecture for dense image prediction. Particularly, we follow the encoder-decoder style and focus on designing a connectivity structure for the decoder. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Huikai Wu , Junge Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

Optimizing a neural network's performance is a tedious and time taking process, this iterative process does not have any defined solution which can work for all the problems. Optimization can be roughly categorized into - Architecture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Siddhartha Dhar Choudhury , Shashank Pandey , Kunal Mehrotra

As the complexity and computational demands of deep learning models rise, the need for effective optimization methods for neural network designs becomes paramount. This work introduces an innovative search mechanism for automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Seyedarmin Azizi , Mahdi Nazemi , Arash Fayyazi , Massoud Pedram

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but few of them can effectively design the number of channels for convolutional neural networks and consume less computational efforts. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Xiaolong Hu , Kaiqiang Xu , Yongjun Xu

Tensor network methods provide a scalable solution to represent high-dimensional data. However, their efficacy is often limited by static, expert-defined structures that fail to adapt to evolving data correlations. We address this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zheng Guo , Aditya Deshpande , Xinyu Wang , Brian C. Kiedrowski , Alex A. Gorodetsky

Deep neural networks achieve outstanding results in challenging image classification tasks. However, the design of network topologies is a complex task and the research community makes a constant effort in discovering top-accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Florian Scheidegger , Luca Benini , Costas Bekas , Cristiano Malossi

We propose a novel algorithm for combined unit and layer pruning of deep neural networks that functions during training and without requiring a pre-trained network to apply. Our algorithm optimally trades-off learning accuracy and pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

We present two novel hyperparameter optimization strategies for optimization of deep learning models with a modular architecture constructed of multiple subnetworks. As complex networks with multiple subnetworks become more frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Alex H. Treacher , Albert Montillo

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

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