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Neural networks (NNs) with intensive multiplications (e.g., convolutions and transformers) are capable yet power hungry, impeding their more extensive deployment into resource-constrained devices. As such, multiplication-free networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoran You , Baopu Li , Huihong Shi , Yonggan Fu , Yingyan Celine Lin

The key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is designing how to explore wisely in the huge search space. We propose a new NAS method called TNAS (NAS with trees), which improves search efficiency by exploring only a small number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guocheng Qian , Xuanyang Zhang , Guohao Li , Chen Zhao , Yukang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become increasingly popular in the deep learning community recently, mainly because it can provide an opportunity to allow interested users without rich expertise to benefit from the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shiqing Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Deep learning methods have become very successful at solving many complex tasks such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, manually designing a neural network for a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Maria Baldeon Calisto , Susana Lai-Yuen

In this paper, we present a novel technique to search for hardware architectures of accelerators optimized for end-to-end training of deep neural networks (DNNs). Our approach addresses both single-device and distributed pipeline and tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Muhammad Adnan , Amar Phanishayee , Janardhan Kulkarni , Prashant J. Nair , Divya Mahajan

Architectures obtained by Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have achieved highly competitive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the prohibitive computation demand of forward-backward propagation in deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Lang Tang , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

There is a growing need to deploy machine learning for different tasks on a wide array of new hardware platforms. Such deployment scenarios require tackling multiple challenges, including identifying a model architecture that can achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Elias Jääsaari , Michelle Ma , Ameet Talwalkar , Tianqi Chen

Early neural network architectures were designed by so-called "grad student descent". Since then, the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has developed with the goal of algorithmically designing architectures tailored for a dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sam Green , Craig M. Vineyard , Ryan Helinski , Çetin Kaya Koç

This paper introduces a novel optimization method for differential neural architecture search, based on the theory of prediction with expert advice. Its optimization criterion is well fitted for an architecture-selection, i.e., it minimizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Niv Nayman , Asaf Noy , Tal Ridnik , Itamar Friedman , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

We propose three novel pruning techniques to improve the cost and results of inference-aware Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DNAS). First, we introduce Prunode, a stochastic bi-path building block for DNAS, which can search over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sławomir Kierat , Mateusz Sieniawski , Denys Fridman , Chen-Han Yu , Szymon Migacz , Paweł Morkisz , Alex-Fit Florea

Neural Architecture Search is a powerful approach for automating model design, but existing methods struggle to accurately optimize for real hardware performance, often relying on proxy metrics such as bit operations. We present Surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jason Weitz , Dmitri Demler , Benjamin Hawks , Nhan Tran , Javier Duarte

Deploying quantum machine learning algorithms on near-term quantum hardware requires circuits that respect device-specific gate sets, connectivity constraints, and noise characteristics. We present a hardware-aware Neural Architecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Adil Mubashir Chaudhry , Ali Raza Haider , Hanzla Khan , Muhammad Faryad

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

Designing deep networks that meet strict latency and accuracy constraints on edge accelerators increasingly relies on hardware-aware optimization, including neural architecture search (NAS) guided by device-level metrics. Yet most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Parampuneet Kaur Thind , Vaibhav Katturu , Giacomo Zema , Roberto Del Prete

Efficient evaluation of a network architecture drawn from a large search space remains a key challenge in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Vanilla NAS evaluates each architecture by training from scratch, which gives the true performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca , Tian Guo

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongpeng Zhou , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as one successful technique to find robust deep neural network (DNN) architectures. However, most existing robustness evaluations in NAS only consider $l_{\infty}$ norm-based adversarial noises.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Jialiang Sun , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaoqian Chen

Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly reduced the number of arithmetic operations and the size of memory storage needed for CNNs, which makes their deployment on mobile and embedded systems more feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baozhou Zhu , Zaid Al-Ars , Peter Hofstee

Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, but it achieved its tremendous success using deep network architectures which are mostly hand-crafted and therefore likely suboptimal. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann