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cs.LG2026

Curating Same-Family Neural Networks for LLM-Guided Model Improvement: A Controlled Case Study

Kabir Dev Paul Baghel, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Neural-network repositories contain executable models, recipes, input transformations, and measured accuracies. We study whether one same-family experiment can be curated as prompt…

cs.CV2026

Device-First Feedback: Toward Mobile-Native LLM-Driven Neural Architecture Search

Saif U Din, Muhammad Ahsan Hussain, Radu Timofte +1

Deploying convolutional neural networks generated by large language models (LLMs) on real mobile hardware requires more than GPU validation accuracy: INT8 TensorFlow Lite export, d…

cs.CV2026

Similarity-Guided Curriculum Fine-Tuning of LLMs for Neural Architecture Synthesis

Anujaya Vijayakumar, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Introduce a MinHash-based similarity scheduling framework that constructs a progressive curriculum over neural architecture code for LLM-based neural architecture search (NAS). Usi…

cs.LG2026

Systematic Evaluation of Learning Rate Scheduling Strategies Across Heterogeneous Architectures

Hafsa Mateen, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Choosing a learning rate scheduling strategy is critical to neural network training, but manual selection is costly and rarely exhaustive. While classical AutoML approaches often t…

cs.LG2026

Scaling Closed-Loop Feature Channel Configuration with LLMs

Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Promising initial results in closed-loop large-language-model-based channel-configuration search demonstrated that neural-network widths can be optimized directly through executabl…

cs.LG2026

LEMUR 2: Unlocking Neural Network Diversity for AI

Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Waleed Khalid, Saif U Din +17

Existing NAS benchmarks (e.g., NAS-Bench, NATS-Bench) cover only narrow, task-specific regions of the architectural design space and lack cross-domain or deployment-aware evaluatio…

cs.LG2026

Systematic Exploration of 4-Expert Heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts via Automated Pipeline Search

Yashkumar R Lukhi, Harsh Rameshbhai Moradiya, Radu Timofte +1

We present an automated large-scale search pipeline for heterogeneous 4-Expert Mixture-of-Experts (MoE4) architectures within the LEMUR neural network dataset ecosystem. Building o…

cs.LG2026

Towards Robust Training in NNGPT AutoML Pipeline: A Loss-Optimizer Pairing Selection Study

Anton Abramochkin, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

The choice of loss function and optimizer is an important decision, that shapes further model training. Yet automated architecture search pipelines (AutoML) benefits significantly…

cs.LG2026

Convergence Theory for Iterative LLM-Based Neural Architecture Search: A Parametric Cross-Entropy Framework with Closed-Form Proxy Reliability

Santosh Premi Adhikari, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as generators in iterative neural architecture search (NAS), yet no formal convergence theory exists for this class of algorithms…

cs.LG2026

Delta-Based Neural Architecture Search: LLM Fine-Tuning via Code Diffs

Santosh Premi Adhikari, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for neural architecture generation, yet existing approaches produce complete model implementations from scratch -- computationall…

cs.LG2026

From Code to Prediction: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Neural Network Performance Classification in NNGPT

Mahmoud Hanouneh, Radu Timofte, Dmitry Ignatov

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) frameworks increasingly leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) for tasks such as hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture code generat…

cs.CV2026

Real Image Denoising with Knowledge Distillation for High-Performance Mobile NPUs

Faraz Kayani, Sarmad Kayani, Asad Ahmed +2

While deep-learning-based image restoration has achieved unprecedented fidelity, deployment on mobile Neural Processing Units (NPUs) remains bottlenecked by operator incompatibilit…

cs.CV2026

MobileAgeNet: Lightweight Facial Age Estimation for Mobile Deployment

Arun Kumar, Aswathy Baiju, Radu Timofte +1

Mobile deployment of facial age estimation requires models that balance predictive accuracy with low latency and compact size. In this work, we present MobileAgeNet, a lightweight…

cs.CV2026

Closed-Loop LLM Discovery of Non-Standard Channel Priors in Vision Models

Tolgay Atinc Uzun, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Channel-configuration search, the optimization of layer specifications such as channel widths in deep neural networks, presents a combinatorial challenge constrained by tensor-shap…

cs.CV2026

From Brute Force to Semantic Insight: Performance-Guided Data Transformation Design with LLMs

Usha Shrestha, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable performance in code synthesis; however, data-aware augmentation remains a limiting factor, handled via heuristic design or brute-…

cs.LG2026

From Memorization to Creativity: LLM as a Designer of Novel Neural Architectures

Waleed Khalid, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Large language models (LLMs) excel in program synthesis, yet their capacity for neural architecture design -- balancing syntactic reliability, performance, and structural novelty -…

cs.LG2025

LLM as a Neural Architect: Controlled Generation of Image Captioning Models Under Strict API Contracts

Krunal Jesani, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Neural architecture search (NAS) traditionally requires significant human expertise or automated trial-and-error to design deep learning models. We present NN-Caption, an LLM-guide…

cs.CV2025

Enhancing LLM-Based Neural Network Generation: Few-Shot Prompting and Efficient Validation for Automated Architecture Design

Raghuvir Duvvuri, Chandini Vysyaraju, Avi Goyal +2

Automated neural network architecture design remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Task diversity and computational constraints require both effective architectures a…

cs.CV2025

A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach to Extracting Algorithmic Logic from Neural Networks

Waleed Khalid, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Reusing existing neural-network components is central to research efficiency, yet discovering, extracting, and validating such modules across thousands of open-source repositories…

cs.AI2025

NNGPT: Rethinking AutoML with Large Language Models

Roman Kochnev, Waleed Khalid, Tolgay Atinc Uzun +8

Building self-improving AI systems remains a fundamental challenge in the AI domain. We present NNGPT, an open-source framework that turns a large language model (LLM) into a self-…

cs.LG2025

Preparation of Fractal-Inspired Computational Architectures for Advanced Large Language Model Analysis

Yash Mittal, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

This paper proposes FractalNet, a framework based on fractal design principles that automatically generates and evaluates convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures using rec…

cs.CV2025

AugmentGest: Can Random Data Cropping Augmentation Boost Gesture Recognition Performance?

Nada Aboudeshish, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte

Data augmentation is a crucial technique in deep learning, particularly for tasks with limited dataset diversity, such as skeleton-based datasets. This paper proposes a comprehensi…

cs.CL2025

VIST-GPT: Ushering in the Era of Visual Storytelling with LLMs?

Mohamed Gado, Towhid Taliee, Muhammad Memon +2

Visual storytelling is an interdisciplinary field combining computer vision and natural language processing to generate cohesive narratives from sequences of images. This paper pre…

cs.LG2025

LEMUR Neural Network Dataset: Towards Seamless AutoML

Arash Torabi Goodarzi, Roman Kochnev, Waleed Khalid +8

Neural networks are the backbone of modern artificial intelligence, but designing, evaluating, and comparing them remains labor-intensive. While numerous datasets exist for trainin…