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Neural architecture search can discover neural networks with good performance, and One-Shot approaches are prevalent. One-Shot approaches typically require a supernet with weight sharing and predictors that predict the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chia-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Shin Han , Yuan-Yao Sung , Yi Lee , Hung-Yueh Chiang , Kai-Chiang Wu

One of the key steps in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to estimate the performance of candidate architectures. Existing methods either directly use the validation performance or learn a predictor to estimate the performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Minli Li , Wei Zeng , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

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) is a powerful technique for discovering high-performing CNN architectures, but most existing methods rely on costly training or extensive sampling. Zero-shot NAS offers a training-free alternative by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ye Qiao , Jingcheng Li , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Recently, predictor-based algorithms emerged as a promising approach for neural architecture search (NAS). For NAS, we typically have to calculate the validation accuracy of a large number of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), what is…

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Neural architecture search (NAS) has seen a steep rise in interest over the last few years. Many algorithms for NAS consist of searching through a space of architectures by iteratively choosing an architecture, evaluating its performance by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Colin White , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani

Training a supernet matters for one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods since it serves as a basic performance estimator for different architectures (paths). Current methods mainly hold the assumption that a supernet should give a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Shan You , Tao Huang , Mingmin Yang , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang

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

Predictor-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) employs an architecture performance predictor to improve the sample efficiency. However, predictor-based NAS suffers from the severe ``cold-start'' problem, since a large amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Junbo Zhao , Xuefei Ning , Enshu Liu , Binxin Ru , Zixuan Zhou , Tianchen Zhao , Chen Chen , Jiajin Zhang , Qingmin Liao , Yu Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables researchers to automatically explore broad design spaces in order to improve efficiency of neural networks. This efficiency is especially important in the case of on-device deployment, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Łukasz Dudziak , Thomas Chau , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Royson Lee , Hyeji Kim , Nicholas D. Lane

Deep learning has become in recent years a cornerstone tool fueling key innovations in the industry, such as autonomous driving. To attain good performances, the neural network architecture used for a given application must be chosen with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Anthony Cazasnoves , Pierre-Antoine Ganaye , Kévin Sanchis , Tugdual Ceillier

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 (NAS) enabled the discovery of state-of-the-art architectures in many domains. However, the success of NAS depends on the definition of the search space. Current search spaces are defined as a static sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Stanisław Jastrzębski , Quentin de Laroussilhe , Mingxing Tan , Xiao Ma , Neil Houlsby , Andrea Gesmundo

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

Neural architecture search (NAS) with an accuracy predictor that predicts the accuracy of candidate architectures has drawn increasing attention due to its simplicity and effectiveness. Previous works usually employ neural network-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms adopt neural predictors to accelerate the architecture search. The capability of neural predictors to accurately predict the performance metrics of neural architecture is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chen Wei , Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Haihong Hu , Yue Wang , Jimin Liang

Self-attention architectures have emerged as a recent advancement for improving the performance of vision tasks. Manual determination of the architecture for self-attention networks relies on the experience of experts and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuan Zhou , Haiyang Wang , Shuwei Huo , Boyu Wang

Neural structure search (NAS), as the mainstream approach to automate deep neural architecture design, has achieved much success in recent years. However, the performance estimation component adhering to NAS is often prohibitively costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zixuan Liang , Yanan Sun