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Nowadays, cooperative multi-agent systems are used to learn how to achieve goals in large-scale dynamic environments. However, learning in these environments is challenging: from the effect of search space size on learning time to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mahnoosh Mahdavimoghaddam , Amin Nikanjam , Monireh Abdoos

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai

Architecture search is the process of automatically learning the neural model or cell structure that best suits the given task. Recently, this approach has shown promising performance improvements (on language modeling and image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

Feature extractor plays a critical role in text recognition (TR), but customizing its architecture is relatively less explored due to expensive manual tweaking. In this work, inspired by the success of neural architecture search (NAS), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hui Zhang , Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Xiang Bai

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abhishek Singh , Anubhav Garg , Jinan Zhou , Shiv Ram Dubey , Debo Dutta

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shen Yan , Biyi Fang , Faen Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xiao Zeng , Hui Xu , Mi Zhang

In this publication, we assess the ability of a novel Reinforcement Learning-based solution to the problem of Neural Architecture Search, where a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent learns to search for good architectures, rather than to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Amber Cassimon , Siegfried Mercelis , Kevin Mets

The performance of deep reinforcement learning agents is fundamentally constrained by their neural network architecture, a choice traditionally made through expensive hyperparameter searches and then fixed throughout training. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Iman Rahmani , Saman Yazdannik , Morteza Tayefi , Jafar Roshanian

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shahid Siddiqui , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Large pretrained language models have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of downstream tasks. Knowledge Distillation (KD) into a smaller student model addresses their inefficiency, allowing for deployment in resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aashka Trivedi , Takuma Udagawa , Michele Merler , Rameswar Panda , Yousef El-Kurdi , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

In the field of complex action recognition in videos, the quality of the designed model plays a crucial role in the final performance. However, artificially designed network structures often rely heavily on the researchers' knowledge and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Pengzhen Ren , Gang Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Yun Xiao , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen

With the success of deep neural networks, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a way of automatic model design has attracted wide attention. As training every child model from scratch is very time-consuming, recent works leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Yuge Zhang , Zejun Lin , Junyang Jiang , Quanlu Zhang , Yujing Wang , Hui Xue , Chen Zhang , Yaming Yang

Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

Recently, the expert-crafted neural architectures is increasing overtaken by the utilization of neural architecture search (NAS) and automatic generation (and tuning) of network structures which has a close relation to the Hyperparameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seyed Mahdi Shariatzadeh , Mahmood Fathy , Reza Berangi , Mohammad Shahverdy

Team adaptation to new cooperative tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence, which has yet to be fully realized in learning agents. Previous work on multi-agent transfer learning accommodate teams of different sizes, heavily relying on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Rongjun Qin , Feng Chen , Tonghan Wang , Lei Yuan , Xiaoran Wu , Zongzhang Zhang , Chongjie Zhang , Yang Yu

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hard computationally expensive optimization problem with a discrete, vast, and spiky search space. One of the key research efforts dedicated to this space focuses on accelerating NAS via certain proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bo Lyu , Yu Cui , Tuo Shi , Ke Li

Neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed for the automatic creation of new and effective neural network architectures, offering an alternative to the laborious process of manually designing complex architectures. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aaron Serianni , Jugal Kalita

We introduce the first Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method to find a better transformer architecture for image recognition. Recently, transformers without CNN-based backbones are found to achieve impressive performance for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Chuming Li , Baopu Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie yan , Wanli Ouyang

Recent years have witnessed a surging interest in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Various algorithms have been proposed to improve the search efficiency and effectiveness of NAS, i.e., to reduce the search cost and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yao Shu , Shaofeng Cai , Zhongxiang Dai , Beng Chin Ooi , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low