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Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

This work introduces a novel, nature-inspired neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm based on ant colony optimization, Continuous Ant-based Neural Topology Search (CANTS), which utilizes synthetic ants that move over a continuous search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 AbdElRahman ElSaid , Joshua Karns , Zimeng Lyu , Alexander Ororbia , Travis Desell

One of the limitations of transformer networks is the sequence length due to the quadratic nature of the attention matrix. Classical self attention uses the entire sequence length, however, the actual attention being used is sparse. Humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Marc Estafanous

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis

We introduce the first Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method to find a better transformer architecture for image recognition. Recently, transformers without CNN-based backbones are found to achieve impressive performance for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Chuming Li , Baopu Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie yan , Wanli Ouyang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically find effective architectures within a predefined search space. However, the search space is often extremely large. As a result, directly searching in such a large search space is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Daihai Liao , Fanbing Lv , Hengjie Song , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Mingkui Tan

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly important. However, due to the quadratic time complexity of attention computation, scaling LLMs to longer contexts incurs extremely slow inference speed and high GPU…

Vision transformers have emerged as a powerful tool across a wide range of applications, yet their inner workings remain only partially understood. In this work, we examine the phenomenon of massive tokens - tokens with exceptionally high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Andrew Lu , Wentinn Liao , Liuhui Wang , Huzheng Yang , Jianbo Shi

To achieve excellent performance with modern neural networks, having the right network architecture is important. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) concerns the automatic discovery of task-specific network architectures. Modern NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Alexander Chebykin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Deep learning has become in recent years a cornerstone tool fueling key innovations in the industry, such as autonomous driving. To attain good performances, the neural network architecture used for a given application must be chosen with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Anthony Cazasnoves , Pierre-Antoine Ganaye , Kévin Sanchis , Tugdual Ceillier

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful tool for many non-differentiable search related problems such as adversarial games. However, the performance of such approach highly depends on the order of the nodes that are considered at each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mehraveh Javan Roshtkhari , Matthew Toews , Marco Pedersoli

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongpeng Zhou , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Modern reasoning models, such as OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek-R1, exhibit impressive problem-solving capabilities but suffer from critical inefficiencies: high inference latency, excessive computational resource consumption, and a tendency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hang Yuan , Bin Yu , Haotian Li , Shijun Yang , Christina Dan Wang , Zhou Yu , Xueyin Xu , Weizhen Qi , Kai Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

We present Neighborhood Attention (NA), the first efficient and scalable sliding-window attention mechanism for vision. NA is a pixel-wise operation, localizing self attention (SA) to the nearest neighboring pixels, and therefore enjoys a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Ali Hassani , Steven Walton , Jiachen Li , Shen Li , Humphrey Shi

The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

While memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) offer an effective solution for few-shot learning (FSL) by integrating deep neural networks with external memory, the capacity requirements and energy overhead of data movement become enormous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hao-Wei Chiang , Chi-Tse Huang , Hsiang-Yun Cheng , Po-Hao Tseng , Ming-Hsiu Lee , An-Yeu , Wu

Understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) process information from prompts remains a significant challenge. To shed light on this "black box," attention visualization techniques have been developed to capture neuron-level perceptions…

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai