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 treat the scheduler as a secondary hyperparameter, we systematically investigate its impact on classification accuracy across a diverse pool of architectures.
arXiv:2607. 08511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing a learning rate scheduling strategy is critical to neural network training, but manual selection is costly and rarely exhaustive.
arXiv:2509. 23052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a new meta-learning method to determine the optimal learning rate schedule for gradient descent.
arXiv:2606. 23739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an automated large-scale search pipeline for heterogeneous 4-Expert Mixture-of-Experts (MoE4) architectures within the LEMUR neural network dataset ecosystem.
ExpTest is an autonomous learning‑rate controller that uses the training loss curve as an online signal to perform sequential statistical tests on theoretically motivated windows, detecting convergent behavior and triggering learning‑rate reductions. It combines a covariance‑based initial learning‑rate estimate, curvature‑motivated window sizing, and a two‑phase test‑driven decay, relying on the approximately exponential decay predicted under linearized network dynamics. Experiments on regression, classification, forecasting, and natural‑language tasks across various architectures show that ExpTest achieves competitive performance compared to hand‑tuned SGD baselines and recent learning‑rate‑free methods, without requiring manual initial learning‑rate selection or predefined scheduling.
arXiv:2607. 15745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Common practice when training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is to use randomly shuffled mini-batches.
Introduce a MinHash-based similarity scheduling framework that constructs a progressive curriculum over neural architecture code for LLM-based neural architecture search (NAS). Using 128-permutation MinHash signatures over normalised 7-gram source code shingles, we partition the reference pool into similarity bands and present them in increasing architectural heterogeneity, with the best LoRA adapter from each stage merged cumulatively into the backbone.
arXiv:2607. 06796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in various domains including time series analysis, computer vision and natural language processing.
arXiv:2606. 03938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-epoch training is becoming the standard now that compute is growing faster than the supply of high-quality text.
arXiv:2602.03702v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly trained in continual or open-ended settings, where the total training horizon is not known in advance....
The study investigates whether a curated same-family neural network experiment can guide large language model (LLM)-based improvements for a low-performing target model under equal generation and evaluation budgets. Using TuneNNGen, an extension of NNGPT, the authors compare source-guided generation with target-only generation on CIFAR-10, SVHN, Imagenette, and CIFAR-100 datasets, achieving significant accuracy gains across these benchmarks. The results demonstrate that the benefits depend on source-target compatibility and LLM adaptation, rather than merely on stored source accuracy.
arXiv:2510. 14717v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Increasing the batch size during training -- a ''batch ramp'' -- is a promising strategy to accelerate large language model pretraining.
arXiv:2606. 13682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The open shop scheduling problem (OSSP) arises in many industrial and service settings but remains computationally challenging as the number of jobs and machines increases.