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Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

Functions of chemical composition are complex and discrete in nature making it impossible to optimize them with gradient methods. Genetic algorithms, which do not use derivative information, are used to maximize the thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Alexander Kerr , Kieran Mullen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an emerging topic in machine learning and computer vision. The fundamental ideology of NAS is using an automatic mechanism to replace manual designs for exploring powerful network architectures. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lanfei Wang , Lingxi Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Jun Guo , Qi Tian

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

In this research, we investigate the possibility of applying a search strategy to genetic algorithms to explore the entire genetic tree structure. Several methods aid in performing tree searches; however, simpler algorithms such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Akshay Hebbar

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

Neural networks have recently had a lot of success for many tasks. However, neural network architectures that perform well are still typically designed manually by experts in a cumbersome trial-and-error process. We propose a new method to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Thomas Elsken , Jan-Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search method that optimises a population of solutions by simulating natural evolution. Good solutions reproduce together to create better candidates. The standard GA assumes that any two solutions can mate.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Aymeric Vie

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks. Despite the superior performance achieved, the efficiency and generality of existing methods are highly valued due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiawu Zheng , Chenyi Yang , Shaokun Zhang , Yan Wang , Baochang Zhang , Yongjian Wu , Yunsheng Wu , Ling Shao , Rongrong Ji

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Andrea Massa , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

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

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) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

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) and network pruning are widely studied efficient AI techniques, but not yet perfect. NAS performs exhaustive candidate architecture search, incurring tremendous search cost. Though (structured) pruning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yanyu Li , Pu Zhao , Geng Yuan , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Xin Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been growing in popularity. These techniques have been fundamental to automate and speed up the time consuming and error-prone process of synthesizing novel Deep Learning (DL) architectures. NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hadjer Benmeziane , Kaoutar El Maghraoui , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Smail Niar , Martin Wistuba , Naigang Wang

Previous works on meta-learning either relied on elaborately hand-designed network structures or adopted specialized learning rules to a particular domain. We propose a universal framework to optimize the meta-learning process automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao shi , Feiyu Xu