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Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) has been applied to automatically search high-performance networks for medical image segmentation. The NAS search space usually contains a network topology level (controlling connections among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yufan He , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu

To meet the demand for designing efficient neural networks with appropriate trade-offs between model performance (e.g., classification accuracy) and computational complexity, the differentiable neural architecture distillation (DNAD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xuan Rao , Bo Zhao , Derong Liu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) yields state-of-the-art neural networks that outperform their best manually-designed counterparts. However, previous NAS methods search for architectures under one set of training hyper-parameters (i.e., a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xiaoliang Dai , Alvin Wan , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Zijian He , Zhen Wei , Kan Chen , Yuandong Tian , Matthew Yu , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

In this paper, we investigate a new variant of neural architecture search (NAS) paradigm -- searching with random labels (RLNAS). The task sounds counter-intuitive for most existing NAS algorithms since random label provides few information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Xuanyang Zhang , Pengfei Hou , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

High sensitivity of neural architecture search (NAS) methods against their input such as step-size (i.e., learning rate) and search space prevents practitioners from applying them out-of-the-box to their own problems, albeit its purpose is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Youhei Akimoto , Shinichi Shirakawa , Nozomu Yoshinari , Kento Uchida , Shota Saito , Kouhei Nishida

Neural Architecture Search has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Among them, differential NAS approaches such as DARTS, have gained popularity for the search efficiency. However, they still suffer from three main issues, that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Peng Ye , Tong He , Baopu Li , Tao Chen , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang

Multiplication is arguably the most cost-dominant operation in modern deep neural networks (DNNs), limiting their achievable efficiency and thus more extensive deployment in resource-constrained applications. To tackle this limitation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Huihong Shi , Haoran You , Yang Zhao , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great success in automating the design of neural networks, but the prohibitive amount of computations behind current NAS methods requires further investigations in improving the sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Linnan Wang , Yiyang Zhao , Yuu Jinnai , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca

While recent NAS algorithms are thousands of times faster than the pioneering works, it is often overlooked that they use fewer candidate operations, resulting in a significantly smaller search space. We present PR-DARTS, a NAS algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

This study aims at making the architecture search process more adaptive for one-shot or online training. It is extended from the existing study on differentiable neural architecture search, and we made the backbone architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Renlong Jie , Junbin Gao

Neural architecture search (NAS) in expressive search spaces is a computationally hard problem, but it also holds the potential to automatically discover completely novel and performant architectures. To achieve this we need effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Adri Gómez Martín , Felix Möller , Steven McDonagh , Monica Abella , Manuel Desco , Elliot J. Crowley , Aaron Klein , Linus Ericsson

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

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful tool for many non-differentiable search related problems such as adversarial games. However, the performance of such approach highly depends on the order of the nodes that are considered at each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mehraveh Javan Roshtkhari , Matthew Toews , Marco Pedersoli

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a pivotal technique in automated machine learning. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA)-based methods demonstrate superior search quality but suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingbang Du , Enzhi Zhang , Rui Zhong , Yang Cao , Masaharu Munetomo

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has attracted growing interest. To reduce the search cost, recent work has explored weight sharing across models and made major progress in One-Shot NAS. However, it has been observed that a model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Xing Wang , Min Zheng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Modern solutions to the single image super-resolution (SISR) problem using deep neural networks aim not only at better performance accuracy but also at a lighter and computationally efficient model. To that end, recently, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Yan Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Suryansh Kumar , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool