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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a research field concerned with utilizing optimization algorithms to design optimal neural network architectures. There are many approaches concerning the architectural search spaces, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

As the application area of convolutional neural networks (CNN) is growing in embedded devices, it becomes popular to use a hardware CNN accelerator, called neural processing unit (NPU), to achieve higher performance per watt than CPUs or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Jaeseong Lee , Duseok Kang , Soonhoi Ha

To search an optimal sub-network within a general deep neural network (DNN), existing neural architecture search (NAS) methods typically rely on handcrafting a search space beforehand. Such requirements make it challenging to extend them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tianyi Chen , Luming Liang , Tianyu Ding , Ilya Zharkov

Automated neural network design has received ever-increasing attention with the evolution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially involving their deployment on embedded and mobile platforms. One of the biggest problems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler , Zhiquan Feng

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

Neural architecture search has shown its great potential in various areas recently. However, existing methods rely heavily on a black-box controller to search architectures, which suffers from the serious problem of lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao Shi

Many studies estimate energy consumption using proxy metrics like memory usage, FLOPs, and inference latency, with the assumption that reducing these metrics will also lower energy consumption in neural networks. This paper, however, takes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Hoang-Loc La , Phuong Hoai Ha

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods, which automatically learn entire neural model or individual neural cell architectures, have recently achieved competitive or state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on variety of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ansel MacLaughlin , Jwala Dhamala , Anoop Kumar , Sriram Venkatapathy , Ragav Venkatesan , Rahul Gupta

A key problem in deep multi-attribute learning is to effectively discover the inter-attribute correlation structures. Typically, the conventional deep multi-attribute learning approaches follow the pipeline of manually designing the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

\textit{Differentiable ARchiTecture Search} (DARTS) has recently become the mainstream of neural architecture search (NAS) due to its efficiency and simplicity. With a gradient-based bi-level optimization, DARTS alternately optimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miao Zhang , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Reza Haffari

Recently, dynamic inference has emerged as a promising way to reduce the computational cost of deep convolutional neural network (CNN). In contrast to static methods (e.g. weight pruning), dynamic inference adaptively adjusts the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zhihang Yuan , Bingzhe Wu , Zheng Liang , Shiwan Zhao , Weichen Bi , Guangyu Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) has recently reshaped our understanding on various vision tasks. Similar to the success of NAS in high-level vision tasks, it is possible to find a memory and computationally efficient solution via NAS with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Qian Ning , Weisheng Dong , Xin Li , Jinjian Wu , Leida Li , Guangming Shi

The recent progress of deep convolutional neural networks has enabled great success in single image super-resolution (SISR) and many other vision tasks. Their performances are also being increased by deepening the networks and developing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Joon Young Ahn , Nam Ik Cho

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a challenging problem. Hierarchical search spaces allow for cheap evaluations of neural network sub modules to serve as surrogate for architecture evaluations. Yet, sometimes the hierarchy is too…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Simon Neumeyer , Julian Stier , Michael Granitzer

The success of deep learning in recent years has lead to a rising demand for neural network architecture engineering. As a consequence, neural architecture search (NAS), which aims at automatically designing neural network architectures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Benedikt Staffler , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada , Frank Hutter

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained significant popularity as an effective tool for designing high performance deep neural networks (DNNs). NAS can be performed via policy gradient, evolutionary algorithms, differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Hanxun Huang , Xingjun Ma , Sarah M. Erfani , James Bailey