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Evolutionary computation has been shown to be a highly effective method for training neural networks, particularly when employed at scale on CPU clusters. Recent work have also showcased their effectiveness on hardware accelerators, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yujin Tang , Yingtao Tian , David Ha

The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

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This paper examines three generic strategies for improving the performance of neuro-evolution techniques aimed at evolving convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These were implemented as part of the Evolutionary eXploration of Augmenting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Travis Desell

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) has made significant strides over the past two decades. However, as problem scales and complexities increase, traditional EMO algorithms face substantial performance limitations due to…

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In this paper, we present Neural Adaptive Tomography (NeAT), the first adaptive, hierarchical neural rendering pipeline for multi-view inverse rendering. Through a combination of neural features with an adaptive explicit representation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Darius Rückert , Yuanhao Wang , Rui Li , Ramzi Idoughi , Wolfgang Heidrich

The increasing demand for on-device training of deep neural networks (DNNs) aims to leverage personal data for high-performance applications while addressing privacy concerns and reducing communication latency. However, resource-constrained…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jinming Lu , Jiayi Tian , Hai Li , Ian Young , Zheng Zhang

Multiagent systems provide an ideal environment for the evaluation and analysis of real-world problems using reinforcement learning algorithms. Most traditional approaches to multiagent learning are affected by long training periods as well…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Unnikrishnan Rajendran Menon , Anirudh Rajiv Menon

Computationally intensive deep neural networks (DNNs) are well-suited to run on GPUs, but newly developed algorithms usually require the heavily optimized DNN routines to work efficiently, and this problem could be even more difficult for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Yu-Sheng Lin , Wei-Chao Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

NeuroEvolution (NE) methods are known for applying Evolutionary Computation to the optimisation of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs). Despite aiding non-expert users to design and train ANNs, the vast majority of NE approaches disregard the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Bernardete Ribeiro , Penousal Machado

Machine learning is a huge field of study in computer science and statistics dedicated to the execution of computational tasks through algorithms that do not require explicit instructions but instead rely on learning patterns from data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jonas da Silveira Bohrer , Bruno Iochins Grisci , Marcio Dorn

NSGA-III is one of the most widely adopted algorithms for tackling many-objective optimization problems. However, its CPU-based design severely limits scalability and computational efficiency. To address the limitations, we propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hao Li , Zhenyu Liang , Ran Cheng

While hardware-software co-design has significantly improved the efficiency of neural network inference, modeling the training phase remains a critical yet underexplored challenge. Training workloads impose distinct constraints,…

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An important goal for the machine learning (ML) community is to create approaches that can learn solutions with human-level capability. One domain where humans have held a significant advantage is visual processing. A significant approach…

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Since soft robotics are composed of compliant materials, they perform better than conventional rigid robotics in specific fields, such as medical applications. However, the field of soft robotics is fairly new, and the design process of…

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Deep neural networks have usually to be compressed and accelerated for their usage in low-power, e.g. mobile, devices. Recently, massively-parallel hardware accelerators were developed that offer high throughput and low latency at low power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Thomas Pfeil

Evolving neural network architectures is a computationally demanding process. Traditional methods often require an extensive search through large architectural spaces and offer limited understanding of how structural modifications influence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Davide Farinati , Frederico J. J. B. Santos , Leonardo Vanneschi , Mauro Castelli

We demonstrate the use of tensor networks for image classification with the TensorNetwork open source library. We explain in detail the encoding of image data into a matrix product state form, and describe how to contract the network in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Stavros Efthymiou , Jack Hidary , Stefan Leichenauer

The t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE) algorithm has become in recent years one of the most used and insightful techniques for the exploratory data analysis of high-dimensional data. tSNE reveals clusters of high-dimensional…

Hand-crafting effective and efficient structures for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming process. To address this challenge, we propose a novel neuro-evolution algorithm based on ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 AbdElRahman A. ElSaid , Alexander G. Ororbia , Travis J. Desell

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a GPU-accelerated inference pipeline for transformer models using NVIDIA TensorRT with mixed-precision optimization. We evaluate BERT-base (110M parameters) and GPT-2 (124M parameters) across…

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