An Attention Module for Convolutional Neural Networks

Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current attentional activations-based models: the approximation problem and the insufficient capacity problem of the...

NASB: Neural Architecture Search for Binary Convolutional Neural Networks

Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly reduced the number of arithmetic operations and the size of memory storage needed for CNNs, which makes their deployment on mobile and embedded systems more feasible. However, after binarization, the CNN architecture has to be redesigned and refined significantly due to two reasons:...