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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) continue to achieve great success in classification tasks as innovative techniques and complex multi-path architecture topologies are introduced. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Trevor Londt , Xiaoying Gao , Peter Andreae , Yi Mei

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is challenged by the trade-off between search space exploration and efficiency, especially for complex tasks. While recent LLM-based NAS methods have shown promise, they often suffer from static search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Fei Kong , Xiaohan Shan , Yanwei Hu , Jianmin Li

Neural architecture search (NAS), an important branch of automatic machine learning, has become an effective approach to automate the design of deep learning models. However, the major issue in NAS is how to reduce the large search time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jae-hun Shim , Kyeongbo Kong , Suk-Ju Kang

Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to discover novel architectures in the presence of multiple conflicting objectives. Despite recent progress, the problem of approximating the full Pareto front accurately and efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Zewei Chen , Fengwei Zhou , George Trimponias , Zhenguo Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been regarded as a capable class of models for visual recognition problems. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to develop generic and powerful network architectures, which requires significant efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Yiheng Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei

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

Deep learning algorithms, in particular 2D and 3D fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), have rapidly become the mainstream methodology for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, 2D convolutions cannot fully leverage the rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Zhuotun Zhu , Chenxi Liu , Dong Yang , Alan Yuille , Daguang Xu

This survey paper presents a comprehensive examination of Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture search (SNNaS) from a unique hardware/software co-design perspective. SNNs, inspired by biological neurons, have emerged as a promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Kama Svoboda , Tosiron Adegbija

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to facilitate the design of deep networks for new tasks. Existing techniques rely on two stages: searching over the architecture space and validating the best architecture. NAS algorithms are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Kaicheng Yu , Christian Sciuto , Martin Jaggi , Claudiu Musat , Mathieu Salzmann

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

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

In this paper, we present a general and effective framework for Neural Architecture Search (NAS), named PredNAS. The motivation is that given a differentiable performance estimation function, we can directly optimize the architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Liuchun Yuan , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to automatically design the architecture. We propose an hourglass-inspired approach (HourNAS) for this problem that is motivated by the fact that the effects of the architecture often proceed from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Wei Zhang , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu

Differentiable architecture search has gradually become the mainstream research topic in the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for its high efficiency compared with the early NAS methods. Recent differentiable NAS also aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bo Lyu , Shiping Wen

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained significant popularity as an effective tool for designing high performance deep neural networks (DNNs). NAS can be performed via policy gradient, evolutionary algorithms, differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Hanxun Huang , Xingjun Ma , Sarah M. Erfani , James Bailey

Liquid State Machine (LSM), also known as the recurrent version of Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), has attracted great research interests thanks to its high computational power, biological plausibility from the brain, simple structure and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Shuo Tian , Lianhua Qu , Kai Hu , Nan Li , Lei Wang , Weixia Xu

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

Despite the remarkable successes of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision, it is time-consuming and error-prone to manually design a CNN. Among various Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods that are motivated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Hao Tan , Ran Cheng , Shihua Huang , Cheng He , Changxiao Qiu , Fan Yang , Ping Luo