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most citedImportance of Data Loading Pipeline in Training Deep Neural Networks

11 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Training Under Limited Resources

Mahdi Zolnouri, Dounia Lakhmiri, Christophe Tribes +2

Training time budget and size of the dataset are among the factors affecting the performance of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). This paper shows that Neural Architecture Search (NAS),…

stat.ML2023

Scaling Deep Networks with the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm

Dounia Lakhmiri, Mahdi Zolnouri, Vahid Partovi Nia +2

Deep neural networks are getting larger. Their implementation on edge and IoT devices becomes more challenging and moved the community to design lighter versions with similar perfo…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Rethinking Pareto Frontier for Performance Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks

Vahid Partovi Nia, Alireza Ghaffari, Mahdi Zolnouri +1

Performance optimization of deep learning models is conducted either manually or through automatic architecture search, or a combination of both. On the other hand, their performan…

cs.LG2021

Demystifying and Generalizing BinaryConnect

Tim Dockhorn, Yaoliang Yu, Eyyüb Sari +2

BinaryConnect (BC) and its many variations have become the de facto standard for neural network quantization. However, our understanding of the inner workings of BC is still quite…

cs.CV2020★ 11 cited

Importance of Data Loading Pipeline in Training Deep Neural Networks

Mahdi Zolnouri, Xinlin Li, Vahid Partovi Nia

Training large-scale deep neural networks is a long, time-consuming operation, often requiring many GPUs to accelerate. In large models, the time spent loading data takes a signifi…