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Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) methods co-train billions of architectures in a supernet and estimate their potential accuracy using the network weights detached from the supernet. However, the ranking correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiefeng Peng , Jiqi Zhang , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

One-shot NAS method has attracted much interest from the research community due to its remarkable training efficiency and capacity to discover high performance models. However, the search spaces of previous one-shot based works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ronghao Guo , Chen Lin , Chuming Li , Keyu Tian , Ming Sun , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan

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

One of the most critical problems in weight-sharing neural architecture search is the evaluation of candidate models within a predefined search space. In practice, a one-shot supernet is trained to serve as an evaluator. A faithful ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Ruijun Xu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hua Zheng , Kuang-Hung Liu , Igor Fedorov , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Wei Wen

Despite remarkable progress achieved, most neural architecture search (NAS) methods focus on searching for one single accurate and robust architecture. To further build models with better generalization capability and performance, model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Minghao Chen , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Haibin Ling

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

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

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

One-Shot methods have evolved into one of the most popular methods in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) due to weight sharing and single training of a supernet. However, existing methods generally suffer from two issues: predetermined number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zan Shen , Jiang Qian , Bojin Zhuang , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

One-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely used to discover architectures due to its efficiency. However, previous studies reveal that one-shot performance estimations of architectures might not be well correlated with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Zixuan Zhou , Xuefei Ning , Yi Cai , Jiashu Han , Yiping Deng , Yuhan Dong , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and studies show that increasing the model capacity of an architecture topology (e.g., width expansion) can bring consistent robustness improvements. This reveals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xuefei Ning , Junbo Zhao , Wenshuo Li , Tianchen Zhao , Yin Zheng , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

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) enables finding the best-performing architecture from a search space automatically. Most NAS methods exploit an over-parameterized network (i.e., a supernet) containing all possible architectures (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Youngmin Oh , Hyunju Lee , Bumsub Ham

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently become a topic of great interest. However, there is a potentially impactful issue within NAS that remains largely unrecognized: noise. Due to stochastic factors in neural network initialization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Liam Li , Ameet Talwalkar

Conducting efficient performance estimations of neural architectures is a major challenge in neural architecture search (NAS). To reduce the architecture training costs in NAS, one-shot estimators (OSEs) amortize the architecture training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Zixuan Zhou , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides state-of-the-art results when trained on well-curated datasets with annotated labels. However, annotating data or even having balanced number of samples can be a luxury for practitioners from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aleksandr Timofeev , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted a lot of attention and has been illustrated to bring tangible benefits in a large number of applications in the past few years. Architecture topology and architecture size have been regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Xuanyi Dong , Lu Liu , Katarzyna Musial , Bogdan Gabrys