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Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) is a technique used to automatically design the architecture of a neural network for a specific task and target hardware. However, evaluating the performance of candidate architectures is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Nilotpal Sinha , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Anis Kacem , Peyman Rostami , Carl Shneider , Djamila Aouada

Deep learning applications are being transferred from the cloud to edge with the rapid development of embedded computing systems. In order to achieve higher energy efficiency with the limited resource budget, neural networks(NNs) must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hongjiang Chen , Yang Wang , Leibo Liu , Shaojun Wei , Shouyi Yin

Current neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms still require expert knowledge and effort to design a search space for network construction. In this paper, we consider automating the search space design to minimize human interference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daquan Zhou , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaochen Lian , Linjie Yang , Yujing Xue , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

This work presents a novel approach to neural architecture search (NAS) that aims to increase carbon efficiency for the model design process. The proposed framework CE-NAS addresses the key challenge of high carbon cost associated with NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yiyang Zhao , Yunzhuo Liu , Bo Jiang , Tian Guo

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

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

Automatic algorithm-hardware co-design for DNN has shown great success in improving the performance of DNNs on FPGAs. However, this process remains challenging due to the intractable search space of neural network architectures and hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhen Dong , Yizhao Gao , Qijing Huang , John Wawrzynek , Hayden K. H. So , Kurt Keutzer

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful framework for automatically discovering neural architectures that balance accuracy and efficiency. However, as AI transitions from static benchmarks to real-world deployment, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matteo Gambella , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

HardWare-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) has recently gained tremendous attention by automating the design of DNNs deployed in more resource-constrained daily life devices. Despite its promising performance, developing optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Chaojian Li , Zhongzhi Yu , Yonggan Fu , Yongan Zhang , Yang Zhao , Haoran You , Qixuan Yu , Yue Wang , Yingyan Celine Lin

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) technologies have been proposed to automate and speed up model design to meet both quality and inference efficiency requirements on a given hardware. Prior arts have shown the capability of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Qian Xu , Victor Li , Crews Darren S

Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) requires joint optimization of accuracy and latency under device constraints. Traditional supernet-based methods require multiple GPU days per dataset. Large Language Model (LLM)-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyi Zhu , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang

Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) is an efficient approach to automatically co-optimizing neural network performance and hardware energy efficiency, making it particularly useful for the development of Deep Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yinhui Ma , Tomomasa Yamasaki , Zhehui Wang , Tao Luo , Bo Wang

Recent state-of-the-art methods for neural architecture search (NAS) exploit gradient-based optimization by relaxing the problem into continuous optimization over architectures and shared-weights, a noisy process that remains poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Liam Li , Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attentions in both academia and industry. In the early age, researchers mostly applied individual search methods which sample and evaluate the candidate architectures separately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Kaifeng Bi , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Zhengsu Chen , Lanfei Wang , An Xiao , Jianlong Chang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

As machine learning (ML) algorithms get deployed in an ever-increasing number of applications, these algorithms need to achieve better trade-offs between high accuracy, high throughput and low latency. This paper introduces NASH, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mengfei Ji , Yuchun Chang , Baolin Zhang , Zaid Al-Ars

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based neural architecture search (NAS) generally guarantees better convergence yet suffers from the requirement of huge computational resources compared with gradient-based approaches, due to the rollout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jihao Liu , Ming Zhang , Yangting Sun , Boxiao Liu , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have attracted much attention and outperformed manually designed architectures on a few high-level vision tasks. In this paper, we propose HiNAS (Hierarchical NAS), an effort towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

The significant computational cost of multiplications hinders the deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices. While multiplication-free models offer enhanced hardware efficiency, they typically sacrifice accuracy. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yang Xu , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang