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Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

Recently, differentiable neural architecture search methods significantly reduce the search cost by constructing a super network and relax the architecture representation by assigning architecture weights to the candidate operations. All…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xukai Xie , Yuan Zhou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Ensembles of separate neural networks (NNs) have shown superior accuracy and confidence calibration over single NN across tasks. To improve the hardware efficiency of ensembles of separate NNs, recent methods create ensembles within a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Recurrent neural networks are good at solving prediction problems. However, finding a network that suits a problem is quite hard because their performance is strongly affected by their architecture configuration. Automatic architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andrés Camero , Jamal Toutouh , Enrique Alba

Deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance in many computer vision tasks. Most state-of-the-art (SOTA) semantic segmentation and object detection approaches reuse neural network architectures designed for image classification as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jiemin Fang , Yuzhu Sun , Kangjian Peng , Qian Zhang , Yuan Li , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture design processes and improve the performance of deep neural networks. Platform-aware NAS methods consider both performance and complexity and can find well-performing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuhei Noda , Shota Saito , Shinichi Shirakawa

Despite the increasing interest in neural architecture search (NAS), the significant computational cost of NAS is a hindrance to researchers. Hence, we propose to reduce the cost of NAS using proxy data, i.e., a representative subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Automated human emotion recognition from facial expressions is a well-studied problem and still remains a very challenging task. Some efficient or accurate deep learning models have been presented in the literature. However, it is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Monu Verma , Murari Mandal , Satish Kumar Reddy , Yashwanth Reddy Meedimale , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Neural architecture search (NAS) has recently been addressed from various directions, including discrete, sampling-based methods and efficient differentiable approaches. While the former are notoriously expensive, the latter suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Margret Keuper

Developing neural network image classification models often requires significant architecture engineering. In this paper, we study a method to learn the model architectures directly on the dataset of interest. As this approach is expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Barret Zoph , Vijay Vasudevan , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

This paper proposes an efficient neural network (NN) architecture design methodology called Chameleon that honors given resource constraints. Instead of developing new building blocks or using computationally-intensive reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Hongxu Yin , Fei Sun , Yanghan Wang , Marat Dukhan , Yunqing Hu , Yiming Wu , Yangqing Jia , Peter Vajda , Matt Uyttendaele , Niraj K. Jha

Dynamic inference is a feasible way to reduce the computational cost of convolutional neural network(CNN), which can dynamically adjust the computation for each input sample. One of the ways to achieve dynamic inference is to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Zhihang Yuan , Xin Liu , Bingzhe Wu , Guangyu Sun

Stochastic gradient descent is the most prevalent algorithm to train neural networks. However, other approaches such as evolutionary algorithms are also applicable to this task. Evolutionary algorithms bring unique trade-offs that are worth…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jonas Prellberg , Oliver Kramer

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed to automatically tune deep neural networks, but existing search algorithms, e.g., NASNet, PNAS, usually suffer from expensive computational cost. Network morphism, which keeps the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Haifeng Jin , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to automatically design the architecture. We propose an hourglass-inspired approach (HourNAS) for this problem that is motivated by the fact that the effects of the architecture often proceed from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Wei Zhang , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu