Architectural Innovations for Efficient Denoising and Classification: A Manual vs. Neural Architecture Search Comparison

In this paper, we combine image denoising and classification, aiming to enhance human perception of noisy images captured by edge devices, like security cameras. Since edge devices have little computational power, we also optimize for efficiency by proposing a novel architecture that integrates the two tasks. Additionally, we alter a Neural...

Pruning Latent Neurons in Autoencoders using Early-Bird Tickets

Autoencoders seek to encode their input into a bottleneck of latent neurons, and then decode it to reconstruct the input. However, if the input data has an intrinsic dimension (ID) smaller than the number of latent neurons in the bottleneck, this encoding becomes redundant. <br/>In this paper, we study using the Early-Bird (EB) technique, a...

Evolutionary neural cascade search across supernetworks

To achieve excellent performance with modern neural networks, having the right network architecture is important. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) concerns the automatic discovery of task-specific network architectures. Modern NAS approaches leverage super-networks whose subnetworks encode candidate neural network architectures. These...

Reinforcement Learning for Profiled Side-Channel Analysis: Applications of Q-Learning in the SCA Domain

Side-channel attacks (SCA), which use unintended leakage to retrieve a secret cryptographic key, have become more sophisticated over time. With the recent successes of machine learning (ML) and especially deep learning (DL) techniques against cryptographic implementations even in the presence of dedicated countermeasures, various methods have...

Do More Elaborate Search Strategies Lead to Better Neural Architecture Search Performance?

Computer vision tasks, like supervised image classification, are effectively tackled by convolutional neural networks, provided that the architecture, which defines the structure of the network, is set correctly. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a relatively young and increasingly popular field that is concerned with automatically optimizing...