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48 results for neural network design

We propose a novel method that makes use of deep neural networks and gradient decent to perform automated design on complex real world engineering tasks. Our approach works by training a neural network to mimic the fitness function of a design optimization task and then, using the differential nature of the neural netw…

2017-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates design of lightweight neural networks for image classification.

problem Designing efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational resources.
method Uses the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm to optimize network architecture.
result Achieves comparable performance to standard methods with fewer design trials.

Generative neural network designs novel 3D molecules with specified properties.

problem Designing molecules with desired properties in chemistry.
method Conditional generative neural network for 3D molecular structures.
result Demonstrated utility in generating novel molecules with specified motifs or composition.

Optimized neural networks for Edge TPU achieve high accuracy in real-time image classification.

problem Designing neural networks for hardware accelerators to achieve optimal performance.
method Hardware-aware neural architecture search and model customization for Edge TPU.
result Improved accuracy-latency tradeoff on Pixel 4's Edge TPU compared to existing models.

New neural network architecture for auction design exploiting permutation symmetry.

problem Designing incentive-compatible auctions that maximize expected revenue.
method Constructed a permutation-equivariant neural network architecture.
result Permutation-equivariant architectures can perfectly recover optimal mechanisms.

Graph neural networks struggle with heterophily, but new designs improve their performance.

problem Graph neural networks struggle with heterophily (networks where connected nodes may have different class labels and dissimilar features).
method Ego- and neighbor-embedding separation, higher-order neighborhoods, and combination of intermediate representations.
result The identified designs increase the accuracy of GNNs by up to 40% and 27% over models without them on synthetic and real networks with heterophily, respectively.

A neural network and evolutionary algorithm framework designs nonlinear optical molecules.

problem Designing efficient nonlinear optical materials.
method Multi-stage Bayesian neural network (msBNN) and corrected Lewis-mode group contribution method (cLGC) combined with evolutionary algorithm (EA).
result Accurately and efficiently designs molecules with different optical properties using a small data set.

New method uses neural networks to optimize experimental designs for complex models.

problem Designing experiments for complex, intractable models with high computational cost.
method Neural mutual information estimation for mutual information maximization.
result Optimal experimental designs and posterior inference can be jointly determined.

RID-Noise improves robust design under noisy conditions using neural networks.

problem Design robustness under noisy environments.
method Robust Inverse Design under Noise (RID-Noise) using conditional invertible neural networks (cINNs).
result RID-Noise achieves more effective robust design compared to state-of-the-art methods.

In this paper, we introduce a novel layer designed to be used as the output of pre-trained neural networks in the context of classification. Based on Associative Memories, this layer can help design Deep Neural Networks which support incremental learning and that can be (partially) trained in real time on embedded devi…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Serenity optimizes neural network execution for edge devices by scheduling with optimal memory footprint.

problem Order of nodes in irregular neural networks affects memory footprint, complicating execution under resource constraints.
method Memory-aware compiler using dynamic programming and graph rewriting to find optimal schedules.
result Achieves optimal peak memory and further improves it with graph rewriting, reducing memory usage by 1.68x-1.86x compared to TensorFlow Lite.

Automates GNN design for molecular property prediction.

problem Designing and tuning GNN architectures for molecular property prediction is labor-intensive.
method Developed a NAS approach to automatically discover high-performing GNN architectures for MPNNs.
result Automatically discovered MPNNs outperform manually designed GNNs in molecular property prediction.

Application of neural networks to a vast variety of practical applications is transforming the way AI is applied in practice. Pre-trained neural network models available through APIs or capability to custom train pre-built neural network architectures with customer data has made the consumption of AI by developers much…

2019-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A new design methodology for neural networks that is guided by traditional algorithm design is presented. To prove our point, we present two heuristics and demonstrate an algorithmic technique for incorporating additional weights in their signal-flow graphs. We show that with training the performance of these networks …

2018-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes experimental designs for intractable models using mutual information bounds.

problem Finding optimal experimental designs for models with intractable data-generating distributions.
method Maximizes mutual information lower bounds parametrized by neural networks, updating network parameters and designs simultaneously.
result Framework enables experimental design for various tasks including parameter estimation and model discrimination.

iDAD uses neural networks to quickly adapt experiments without likelihoods.

problem Performing adaptive experiments in real-time with implicit models.
method iDAD learns a design policy network upfront to make quick design decisions.
result iDAD can make design decisions in milliseconds, unlike traditional BOED approaches.

Explains differences between WL and folklore-WL formulations in graph neural networks.

problem Understanding the differences between WL and folklore-WL formulations in graph neural networks.
method Visual explanation of differences between WL and folklore-WL formulations.
result Clarifies the differences between WL and folklore-WL formulations.

Machine learning has made tremendous progress in recent years and received large amounts of public attention. Though we are still far from designing a full artificially intelligent agent, machine learning has brought us many applications in which computers solve human learning tasks remarkably well. Much of this progre…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, with convolutional neural networks gaining significant achievements in many challenging machine learning fields, hand-crafted neural networks no longer satisfy our requirements as designing a network will cost a lot, and automatically generating architectures has attracted increasingly more attention and focu…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Equivariant neural networks are a class of neural networks designed to preserve symmetries inherent in the data. In this paper, we introduce a general method for modifying a neural network to enforce equivariance, a process we refer to as equivarification. We further show that group convolutional neural networks (G-CNN…

2019-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes ECOC for deep neural network ensembles to improve performance.

problem Designing an ensemble of deep networks is time-consuming and often not beneficial.
method ECOC framework applied to deep networks, with design strategies to balance accuracy and complexity.
result Proposed combinatory technique achieves highest classification performance.

New fusion blocks improve equivariant neural networks for molecular dynamics.

problem Designing equivariant neural networks for tasks with global symmetries.
method Using fusion diagrams from tensor networks to design novel equivariant components.
result Improved performance with fewer parameters on chemical problems.

Improvements in the performance of deep neural networks have often come through the design of larger and more complex networks. As a result, fast memory is a significant limiting factor in our ability to improve network performance. One approach to overcoming this limit is the design of sparse neural networks, which ca…

2018-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This work optimizes neural network bit-width and layer-width for efficiency.

problem Efficient optimization of deep neural networks for reduced size and computational demands.
method Cluster-based tree-structured Parzen estimator for surrogate modeling, Hessian-based pruning for parameter reduction.
result 20% decrease in model size with 12x reduction in search time compared to existing methods.

New neural network improves audio classification accuracy.

problem Challenging audio classification problem in pattern recognition.
method Introduces a Classifier-Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network (CAB-CNN) with an attention mechanism to reduce classifier complexity.
result Significantly improves audio classification performance, achieving more than 10% improvements.

Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. In this paper, we study a fundamental question that arises when designing deep network architectures: Given a target network architecture can we design a smaller ne…

2017-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles co-design of neural hardware and software to improve efficiency.

problem Designing efficient deep learning systems that consider both hardware and software optimizations together.
method Developed a constrained Bayesian optimization framework to automatically identify profitable design points in the joint hardware/software design space.
result Improved energy-delay product by 18% (ResNet) and 40% (DQN) over hand-tuned systems.

The study of deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and, in particular, of deep Reservoir Computing (RC) is gaining an increasing research attention in the neural networks community. The recently introduced Deep Echo State Network (DeepESN) model opened the way to an extremely efficient approach for designing deep neura…

2017-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Module Networks, originally proposed for the task of visual question answering, are a class of neural network architectures that involve human-specified neural modules, each designed for a specific form of reasoning. In current formulations of such networks only the parameters of the neural modules and/or the or…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved neural network approximates analytic and L^p functions efficiently.

problem Efficiently approximating analytic and L^p functions using neural networks.
method Three-dimensional ReLU network architecture for sawtooth functions, improving approximation rates.
result Substantially improved exponential approximation rates for analytic functions and general L^p functions.

An associative memory is a framework of content-addressable memory that stores a collection of message vectors (or a dataset) over a neural network while enabling a neurally feasible mechanism to recover any message in the dataset from its noisy version. Designing an associative memory requires addressing two main task…

2016-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗