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Deep imagination optimizes decision-making in large trees with limited resources.

problem Optimal planning in large decision trees with limited resources and time.
method Analytical solutions and numerical analysis of sampling capacity allocation.
result Optimal policy is to allocate few samples per level for deep exploration, favoring depth over breadth.

Discovering causal structure among a set of variables is a fundamental problem in many empirical sciences. Traditional score-based casual discovery methods rely on various local heuristics to search for a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) according to a predefined score function. While these methods, e.g., greedy equivalenc…

2019-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) require huge GPU memory when training on modern image/video databases. Unfortunately, the GPU memory is physically finite, which limits the image resolutions and batch sizes that could be used in training for better DNN performance. Unlike solutions that require physically upgrade GPUs, the G…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They are constrained by the available computation resources, especially in enterprise e…

2019-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce "Search with Amortized Value Estimates" (SAVE), an approach for combining model-free Q-learning with model-based Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). In SAVE, a learned prior over state-action values is used to guide MCTS, which estimates an improved set of state-action values. The new Q-estimates are then used…

2019-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes an unbiased optimization method for Bayesian experimental design.

problem Maximizing expected information gain in Bayesian experimental design.
method Randomized multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method combined with stochastic gradient descent.
result An unbiased estimator for the gradient of expected information gain.

Efficiently selects nearest neighbors for labeling to speed up active learning.

problem Intractable active learning and search for large-scale unlabeled data.
method Restricts candidate pool to nearest neighbors of labeled set.
result Achieved similar performance to global approach but reduced computational cost by up to 3 orders of magnitude.

New framework combines simple machines into complex ones for better neural network performance.

problem Improving neural network performance with limited training data.
method Developed a framework using topology and functional analysis to combine simple machines into complex ones, and used kernel methods to find optimal architectures.
result Kernel-inspired networks can outperform classical neural networks when training data is small.

In the 'Big Data' era, many real-world applications like search involve the ranking problem for a large number of items. It is important to obtain effective ranking results and at the same time obtain the results efficiently in a timely manner for providing good user experience and saving computational costs. Valuable …

2017-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Detecting the Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) between two input graphs is fundamental for applications in drug synthesis, malware detection, cloud computing, etc. However, MCS computation is NP-hard, and state-of-the-art MCS solvers rely on heuristic search algorithms which in practice cannot find good solution for large…

2020-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for efficient architecture search called EENA (Efficient Evolution of Neural Archit…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reduces NAS search cost by generating multiple complex architectures in one shot.

problem Finding multiple neural architectures with varying complexities efficiently.
method Uses importance sampling to generate and update multiple distributions of architectures.
result Reduces search cost by finding multiple architectures with different complexities in a single search.

We introduce an approximate search algorithm for fast maximum a posteriori probability estimation in probabilistic programs, which we call Bayesian ascent Monte Carlo (BaMC). Probabilistic programs represent probabilistic models with varying number of mutually dependent finite, countable, and continuous random variable…

2015-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Entropy Search (ES) and Predictive Entropy Search (PES) are popular and empirically successful Bayesian Optimization techniques. Both rely on a compelling information-theoretic motivation, and maximize the information gained about the argmax\arg\max of the unknown function; yet, both are plagued by the expensive computatio…

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly applied to large scale problems because of their prohibitive computational complex…

2019-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

DTS improves inference-time alignment of diffusion models with less compute.

problem Inference-time alignment of diffusion models suffers from inaccurate value estimation and inefficient reuse of past computations.
method Diffusion Tree Sampling (DTS) uses a tree-based approach to propagate terminal rewards and iteratively refine value estimates.
result DTS produces asymptotically exact samples and matches the FID of best-performing baselines with up to 10x less compute.

Modern machine learning algorithms are increasingly computationally demanding, requiring specialized hardware and distributed computation to achieve high performance in a reasonable time frame. Many hyperparameter search algorithms have been proposed for improving the efficiency of model selection, however their adapta…

2018-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.

problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.

Current Neural Architecture Search techniques can suffer from a few shortcomings, including high computational cost, excessive bias from the search space, conceptual complexity or uncertain empirical benefits over random search. In this paper, we present ImmuNeCS, an attempt at addressing these issues with a method tha…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search methods are able to find high performance deep learning architectures with minimal effort from an expert. However, current systems focus on specific use-cases (e.g. convolutional image classifiers and recurrent language models), making them unsuitable for general use-cases that an expert migh…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Additive principal components (APCs for short) are a nonlinear generalization of linear principal components. We focus on smallest APCs to describe additive nonlinear constraints that are approximately satisfied by the data. Thus APCs fit data with implicit equations that treat the variables symmetrically, as opposed t…

2015-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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 study Meta Architecture Search which aims at learning a task-agnostic representation…

2018-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Automatic methods for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have been shown to produce state-of-the-art network models. Yet, their main drawback is the computational complexity of the search process. As some primal methods optimized over a discrete search space, thousands of days of GPU were required for convergence. A rece…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A new DP approach for Conformal Prediction using quantile search.

problem Privacy leakage in uncertainty quantification methods like Conformal Prediction.
method Private Conformity via Quantile Search (P-COQS) using randomized binary search.
result The approach targets the desired (1α)(1 - α)-level of coverage with slight under-covering.

Quality-Diversity algorithms explore multiple high-performing solutions in a search space.

problem Finding multiple high-performing solutions in complex optimization problems.
method Evolutionary computation approach focusing on behavioral space and holistic solution distribution.
result Quality-Diversity algorithms provide a comprehensive view of high-performing solutions in a search space.

Bonsai-Net efficiently discovers state-of-the-art models with fewer parameters.

problem Efficiently discovering state-of-the-art neural architectures with minimal computational expense.
method Bonsai-Net uses a modified differential pruner to explore a relaxed search space.
result Bonsai-Net consistently discovers better architectures than random search with fewer parameters.

We propose an estimator and confidence interval for computing the value of a policy from off-policy data in the contextual bandit setting. To this end we apply empirical likelihood techniques to formulate our estimator and confidence interval as simple convex optimization problems. Using the lower bound of our confiden…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum-assisted VAE improves similarity search in high-dimensional datasets.

problem Finding fast and memory-efficient similarity search in high-dimensional data.
method Construct a space-efficient search index based on the latent space of a Quantum-assisted Variational Autoencoder (QVAE).
result Real-world speedups and memory-efficient scaling to half a billion data points.

We introduce GSimCNN (Graph Similarity Computation via Convolutional Neural Networks) for predicting the similarity score between two graphs. As the core operation of graph similarity search, pairwise graph similarity computation is a challenging problem due to the NP-hard nature of computing many graph distance/simila…

2018-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an emerging topic in machine learning and computer vision. The fundamental ideology of NAS is using an automatic mechanism to replace manual designs for exploring powerful network architectures. One of the key factors of NAS is to scale-up the search space, e.g., increasing the numbe…

2019-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗