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Diffusion models are emerging expressive generative models, in which a large number of time steps (inference steps) are required for a single image generation. To accelerate such tedious process, reducing steps uniformly is considered as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lijiang Li , Huixia Li , Xiawu Zheng , Jie Wu , Xuefeng Xiao , Rui Wang , Min Zheng , Xin Pan , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong

Automatic methods for generating state-of-the-art neural network architectures without human experts have generated significant attention recently. This is because of the potential to remove human experts from the design loop which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 George Adam , Jonathan Lorraine

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proven effective in discovering new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for scenarios with well-defined accuracy optimization goals. However, previous approaches often involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

Architectures obtained by Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have achieved highly competitive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the prohibitive computation demand of forward-backward propagation in deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Lang Tang , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

Resource-constrained edge deployments demand AI solutions that balance high performance with stringent compute, memory, and energy limitations. In this survey, we present a comprehensive overview of the primary strategies for accelerating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jacob Sander , Achraf Cohen , Venkat R. Dasari , Brent Venable , Brian Jalaian

Edge-Cloud hierarchical systems employing intelligence through Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) endure the dilemma of workload distribution within them. Previous solutions proposed to distribute workloads at runtime according to the state of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Mohanad Odema , Nafiul Rashid , Berken Utku Demirel , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengxin Fu , Yuezun Li

Recently developed deep neural models like NetGAN, CELL, and Variational Graph Autoencoders have made progress but face limitations in replicating key graph statistics on generating large graphs. Diffusion-based methods have emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mingyang Wu , Xiaohui Chen , Li-Ping Liu

In order to address the scalability challenge within Neural Architecture Search (NAS), we speed up NAS training via dynamic hard example mining within a curriculum learning framework. By utilizing an autoencoder that enforces an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Matt Poyser , Toby P. Breckon

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used in image classification tasks, but the process of designing CNN architectures is very complex, so Neural Architecture Search (NAS), automatically searching for optimal CNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

In this work, we propose a novel and scalable solution to address the challenges of developing efficient dense predictions on edge platforms. Our first key insight is that MultiTask Learning (MTL) and hardware-aware Neural Architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Thanh Vu , Yanqi Zhou , Chunfeng Wen , Yueqi Li , Jan-Michael Frahm

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for automatically finding the optimal network architecture has shown some success with competitive performances in various computer vision tasks. However, NAS in general requires a tremendous amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Bokyeung Lee , Kyungdeuk Ko , Jonghwan Hong , Hanseok Ko

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely studied for designing discriminative deep learning models such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. As a large number of priors have been obtained through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jie An , Haoyi Xiong , Jinwen Ma , Jiebo Luo , Jun Huan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained huge attention as a potential energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their inherent high-sparsity activation. However, most prior SNN methods use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Priyadarshini Panda

Due to the recent advances on Neural Architecture Search (NAS), it gains popularity in designing best networks for specific tasks. Although it shows promising results on many benchmarks and competitions, NAS still suffers from its demanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Minje Park

Evolutionary computation-based neural architecture search (ENAS) is a popular technique for automating architecture design of deep neural networks. Despite its groundbreaking applications, there is no theoretical study for ENAS. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Gary G. Yen , Yanan Sun