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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

Fast Neural Architecture Construction (NAC) is a method to construct deep network architectures by pruning and expansion of a base network. In recent years, several automated search methods for neural network architectures have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Purushotham Kamath , Abhishek Singh , Debo Dutta

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Vic Ciesielski , Haytham M. Fayek , Xiaojun Chang

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have constantly achieved better performance over years by introducing more complex topology, and enlarging the capacity towards deeper and wider CNNs. This makes the manual design of CNNs extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Bin Wang , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu

Neural network architecture search provides a solution to the automatic design of network structures. However, it is difficult to search the whole network architecture directly. Although using stacked cells to search neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Juan Zou , Shenghong Wu , Yizhang Xia , Weiwei Jiang , Zeping Wu , Jinhua Zheng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an important yet challenging task in network design due to its high computational consumption. To address this issue, we propose the Reinforced Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (RE- NAS), which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yukang Chen , Gaofeng Meng , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chang Huang , Lisen Mu , Xinggang Wang

Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) has gained attention for automatically designing neural network architectures. Recent studies use a neural predictor to guide the process, but the high computational costs of gathering training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Xian-Rong Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong , Wei-Neng Chen , Jun Zhang

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

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Automated design methods for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been developed in order to increase the design productivity. We propose a neuroevolution method capable of evolving and optimizing CNNs with respect to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Filip Badan , Lukas Sekanina

In recent years an increasing number of researchers and practitioners have been suggesting algorithms for large-scale neural network architecture search: genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, learning curve extrapolation, and accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 R. Istrate , F. Scheidegger , G. Mariani , D. Nikolopoulos , C. Bekas , A. C. I. Malossi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown excellent results in designing architectures for computer vision problems. NAS alleviates the need for human-defined settings by automating architecture design and engineering. However, NAS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

This paper addresses the difficult problem of finding an optimal neural architecture design for a given image classification task. We propose a method that aggregates two main results of the previous state-of-the-art in neural architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Moez Baccouche , Stephane Pateux

Recently, differentiable search methods have made major progress in reducing the computational costs of neural architecture search. However, these approaches often report lower accuracy in evaluating the searched architecture or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks. Despite the superior performance achieved, the efficiency and generality of existing methods are highly valued due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiawu Zheng , Chenyi Yang , Shaokun Zhang , Yan Wang , Baochang Zhang , Yongjian Wu , Yunsheng Wu , Ling Shao , Rongrong Ji

Evolutionary computation-based neural architecture search (ENAS) is a popular technique for automating architecture design of deep neural networks. Despite its groundbreaking applications, there is no theoretical study for ENAS. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Gary G. Yen , Yanan Sun