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Designing complex architectures has been an essential cogwheel in the revolution deep learning has brought about in the past decade. When solving difficult problems in a datadriven manner, a well-tried approach is to take an architecture…

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Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has achieved remarkable performance, yet its learned model representations and decision rationale remain a black box. This impedes both academic research and practical deployment, since researchers…

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In all but the most trivial optimization problems, the structure of the solutions exhibit complex interdependencies between the input parameters. Decades of research with stochastic search techniques has shown the benefit of explicitly…

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We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

This paper introduces MARCO (Multi-Agent Reinforcement learning with Conformal Optimization), a novel hardware-aware framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS) targeting resource-constrained edge devices. By significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Arya Fayyazi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

Document structure analysis, such as zone segmentation and table recognition, is a complex problem in document processing and is an active area of research. The recent success of deep learning in solving various computer vision and machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Shah Rukh Qasim , Hassan Mahmood , Faisal Shafait

The influence of deep learning is continuously expanding across different domains, and its new applications are ubiquitous. The question of neural network design thus increases in importance, as traditional empirical approaches are reaching…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Anton Muravev , Jenni Raitoharju , Moncef Gabbouj

Traditional deep learning compilers rely on heuristics for subgraph generation, which impose extra constraints on graph optimization, e.g., each subgraph can only contain at most one complex operator. In this paper, we propose AGO, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zhiying Xu , Hongding Peng , Wei Wang

Predictive coding is a message-passing framework initially developed to model information processing in the brain, and now also topic of research in machine learning due to some interesting properties. One of such properties is the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Billy Byiringiro , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Neural architecture search enables automation of architecture design. Despite its success, it is computationally costly and does not provide an insight on how to design a desirable architecture. Here we propose a new way of searching neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhenhan Huang , Chunheng Jiang , Pin-Yu Chen , Jianxi Gao

This paper proposes a novel hybrid neuro-symbolic framework for the optimal and scalable deployment of component-based applications in the Cloud. The challenge of efficiently mapping application components to virtual machines (VMs) across…

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Monumental advances in deep learning have led to unprecedented achievements across various domains. While the performance of deep neural networks is indubitable, the architectural design and interpretability of such models are nontrivial.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zachariah Carmichael , Tim Moon , Sam Ade Jacobs

Automatic search of neural architectures for various vision and natural language tasks is becoming a prominent tool as it allows to discover high-performing structures on any dataset of interest. Nevertheless, on more difficult domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Vladimir Nekrasov , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

An important step in the task of neural network design, such as hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) or neural architecture search (NAS), is the evaluation of a candidate model's performance. Given fixed computational resources, one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shengcao Cao , Xiaofang Wang , Kris Kitani

We address the problem of optimizing over functions defined on node subsets in a graph. The optimization of such functions is often a non-trivial task given their combinatorial, black-box and expensive-to-evaluate nature. Although various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Huidong Liang , Xingchen Wan , Xiaowen Dong

Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) aims at designing problem-independent and efficient neural network-based strategies for solving combinatorial problems. The field recently experienced growth by successfully adapting architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michal Lisicki , Arash Afkanpour , Graham W. Taylor

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently gained increased attention, as a class of approaches that automatically searches in an input space of network architectures. A crucial part of the NAS pipeline is the encoding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Michail Chatzianastasis , George Dasoulas , Georgios Siolas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

A major challenge in designing neural network (NN) systems is to determine the best structure and parameters for the network given the data for the machine learning problem at hand. Examples of parameters are the number of layers and nodes,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Gonzalo Diaz , Achille Fokoue , Giacomo Nannicini , Horst Samulowitz