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The choice of neural network features can have a large impact on both the accuracy and speed of the network. Despite the current industry shift towards large transformer models, specialized binary classifiers remain critical for numerous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William John Teahan

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates neural network design by using optimization algorithms to navigate architecture spaces, reducing the burden of manual architecture design. While NAS has achieved success, applying it to emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yisheng Yang , Guodong Du , Chean Khim Toa , Ho-Kin Tang , Sim Kuan Goh

Deep learning methods have become very successful at solving many complex tasks such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, manually designing a neural network for a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Maria Baldeon Calisto , Susana Lai-Yuen

Mathematical theory shows us that multilayer feedforward Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) are universal function approximators, capable of approximating any measurable function to any desired degree of accuracy. In practice designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Philip Colangelo , Oren Segal , Alexander Speicher , Martin Margala

In the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has become an increasingly important tool within the deep learning community. Despite the many recent successes of NAS, however, most existing approaches operate within highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Charles Jin , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana , Sudip Roy

We explore efficient neural architecture search methods and show that a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm can discover new architectures with excellent performance. Our approach combines a novel hierarchical genetic representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Hanxiao Liu , Karen Simonyan , Oriol Vinyals , Chrisantha Fernando , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Designing complex architectures has been an essential cogwheel in the revolution deep learning has brought about in the past decade. When solving difficult problems in a datadriven manner, a well-tried approach is to take an architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Attila Nagy , Ábel Boros

Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has successfully identified neural network architectures that exceed human designed ones on large-scale image classification. In this paper, we study NAS for semantic image segmentation. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Chenxi Liu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Wei Hua , Alan Yuille , Li Fei-Fei

Different from handcrafted features, deep neural networks can automatically learn task-specific features from data. Due to this data-driven nature, they have achieved remarkable success in various areas. However, manual design and selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jikuan Qian , Rui Li , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Mingyuan Luo , Zehui Lin , Wenhui Hong , Ruobing Huang , Haining Fan , Dong Ni , Jun Cheng

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

In the past few years, Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DNAS) rapidly imposed itself as the trending approach to automate the discovery of deep neural network architectures. This rise is mainly due to the popularity of DARTS, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Alexandre Heuillet , Ahmad Nasser , Hichem Arioui , Hedi Tabia

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

The fusion of the multi-agent paradigm with evolutionary computation yielded promising results in many optimization problems. Evolutionary multi-agent system (EMAS) are more similar to biological evolution than classical evolutionary…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-08-13 D. Krzywicki , W. Turek , A. Byrski , M. Kisiel-Dorohinicki

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

Recent advances in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have produced state-of-the-art architectures on several tasks. NAS shifts the efforts of human experts from developing novel architectures directly to designing architecture search spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Zalán Borsos , Andrey Khorlin , Andrea Gesmundo

Many evolutionary algorithms (EAs) take advantage of parallel evaluation of candidates. However, if evaluation times vary significantly, many worker nodes (i.e.,\ compute clients) are idle much of the time, waiting for the next generation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jason Liang , Hormoz Shahrzad , Risto Miikkulainen

Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, but it achieved its tremendous success using deep network architectures which are mostly hand-crafted and therefore likely suboptimal. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann

Given the recent impressive accomplishments of language models (LMs) for code generation, we explore the use of LMs as adaptive mutation and crossover operators for an evolutionary neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm. While NAS still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Angelica Chen , David M. Dohan , David R. So

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms automate the task of finding optimal deep learning architectures given an initial search space of possible operations. Developing these search spaces is usually a manual affair with pre-optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Robert Wu , Nayan Saxena , Rohan Jain