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20222026
most citedFreeREA: Training-Free Evolution-based Architecture Search

29 citations · 33 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

LVMT: Video Mask Transformer for Long-term Video Segmentation

Narges Norouzi, Niccol`o Cavagnero, Niccolò Cavagnero +4

Existing online video segmentation methods struggle to track objects in long, complex videos with long-term occlusions. We hypothesize that this limitation is caused by (i) the ina…

cs.CV2026

Towards Data-Efficient Video Pre-training with Frozen Image Foundation Models

Svetlana Orlova, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs Dubbelman

Video foundation models achieve strong performance across many video understanding tasks, but typically require large-scale pre-training on massive video datasets, resulting in sub…

cs.CV2026

Orion-Lite: Distilling LLM Reasoning into Efficient Vision-Only Driving Models

Jing Gu, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs Dubbelman

Leveraging the general world knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) holds significant promise for improving the ability of autonomous driving systems to handle rare and complex…

cs.CV2026

PMT: Plain Mask Transformer for Image and Video Segmentation with Frozen Vision Encoders

Niccolò Cavagnero, Narges Norouzi, Gijs Dubbelman +1

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) pre-trained at scale enable a single frozen encoder to serve multiple downstream tasks simultaneously. Recent VFM-based encoder-only models for imag…

cs.CV2026

VidEoMT: Your ViT is Secretly Also a Video Segmentation Model

Narges Norouzi, Idil Esen Zulfikar, Niccolò Cavagnero +4

Existing online video segmentation models typically combine a per-frame segmenter with complex specialized tracking modules. While effective, these modules introduce significant ar…

cs.LG2025

Searching on a Budget: HW-NAS with 10 Latency Probes

Francesco Capuano, Gabriele Tiboni, Niccolò Cavagnero +1

Existing hardware-aware NAS (HW-NAS) methods typically assume access to precise information circa the target device, either via analytical approximations of the post-compilation la…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model

Tommie Kerssies, Niccolò Cavagnero, Alexander Hermans +5

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown remarkable performance and scalability across various computer vision tasks. To apply single-scale ViTs to image segmentation, existing method…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Transient Fault Tolerant Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving

Leonardo Iurada, Niccolò Cavagnero, Fernando Fernandes Dos Santos +3

Deep learning models are crucial for autonomous vehicle perception, but their reliability is challenged by algorithmic limitations and hardware faults. We address the latter by exa…

cs.CV2024

The revenge of BiSeNet: Efficient Multi-Task Image Segmentation

Gabriele Rosi, Claudia Cuttano, Niccolò Cavagnero +2

Recent advancements in image segmentation have focused on enhancing the efficiency of the models to meet the demands of real-time applications, especially on edge devices. However,…

cs.CV2024

PEM: Prototype-based Efficient MaskFormer for Image Segmentation

Niccolò Cavagnero, Gabriele Rosi, Claudia Cuttano +4

Recent transformer-based architectures have shown impressive results in the field of image segmentation. Thanks to their flexibility, they obtain outstanding performance in multipl…

cs.CV2023

Entropic Score metric: Decoupling Topology and Size in Training-free NAS

Niccolò Cavagnero, Luca Robbiano, Francesca Pistilli +2

Neural Networks design is a complex and often daunting task, particularly for resource-constrained scenarios typical of mobile-sized models. Neural Architecture Search is a promisi…

cs.NE2022★ 29 cited

FreeREA: Training-Free Evolution-based Architecture Search

Niccolò Cavagnero, Luca Robbiano, Barbara Caputo +1

In the last decade, most research in Machine Learning contributed to the improvement of existing models, with the aim of increasing the performance of neural networks for the solut…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Fault-Aware Design and Training to Enhance DNNs Reliability with Zero-Overhead

Niccolò Cavagnero, Fernando Dos Santos, Marco Ciccone +3

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) enable a wide series of technological advancements, ranging from clinical imaging, to predictive industrial maintenance and autonomous driving. However,…