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The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

Training Artificial Neural Networks poses a challenging and critical problem in machine learning. Despite the effectiveness of gradient-based learning methods, such as Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), in training neural networks, they do…

The computational complexity of leveraging deep neural networks for extracting deep feature representations is a significant barrier to its widespread adoption, particularly for use in embedded devices. One particularly promising strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Brendan Chwyl , Francis Li , Rongyan Chen , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

Training highly recurrent networks in continuous action spaces is a technical challenge: gradient-based methods suffer from exploding or vanishing gradients, while purely evolutionary searches converge slowly in high-dimensional weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Miles Walter Churchland , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promising results discovering models that are both accurate and fast. For NAS, training a one-shot model has become a popular strategy to rank the relative quality of different architectures (child…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jiahui Yu , Pengchong Jin , Hanxiao Liu , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Mingxing Tan , Thomas Huang , Xiaodan Song , Ruoming Pang , Quoc Le

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

Different from other deep scalable architecture-based NAS approaches, Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) proposes a broad scalable architecture which consists of convolution and enhancement blocks, dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , C. L. Philip Chen

Neural Architectures Search (NAS) becomes more and more popular over these years. However, NAS-generated models tends to suffer greater vulnerability to various malicious attacks. Lots of robust NAS methods leverage adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) typically consists of three main steps: training a super-network, training and evaluating sampled deep neural networks (DNNs), and training the discovered DNN. Most of the existing efforts speed up some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tien-Ju Yang , Yi-Lun Liao , Vivienne Sze

Data-driven methods have made great progress in fault diagnosis, especially deep learning method. Deep learning is suitable for processing big data, and has a strong feature extraction ability to realize end-to-end fault diagnosis systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xudong Li , Yang Hu , Jianhua Zheng , Mingtao Li

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed to release human experts from tedious architecture engineering. However, most current methods are constrained in small-scale search due to the issue of computational resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Jiemin Fang , Yukang Chen , Xinbang Zhang , Qian Zhang , Chang Huang , Gaofeng Meng , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Many existing neural architecture search (NAS) solutions rely on downstream training for architecture evaluation, which takes enormous computations. Considering that these computations bring a large carbon footprint, this paper aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jingjing Xu , Liang Zhao , Junyang Lin , Rundong Gao , Xu Sun , Hongxia Yang

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

State-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often incorporate multi-branch connections, enabling multi-scale feature extraction and enhancing the capture of diverse features. This design improves network capacity and generalisation to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Fergal Stapleton , Daniel García Núñez , Yanan Sun , Edgar Galván

This paper investigates the intriguing question of whether we can create learning algorithms that automatically generate training data, learning environments, and curricula in order to help AI agents rapidly learn. We show that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Felipe Petroski Such , Aditya Rawal , Joel Lehman , Kenneth O. Stanley , Jeff Clune

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing neural architectures by machines, has been considered a key step toward automatic machine learning. One notable NAS branch is the weight-sharing NAS, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guangrun Wang , Changlin Li , Liuchun Yuan , Jiefeng Peng , Xiaoyu Xian , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Liang Lin

Data-driven, automatic design space exploration of neural accelerator architecture is desirable for specialization and productivity. Previous frameworks focus on sizing the numerical architectural hyper-parameters while neglect searching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yujun Lin , Mengtian Yang , Song Han

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently gained increased attention, as a class of approaches that automatically searches in an input space of network architectures. A crucial part of the NAS pipeline is the encoding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Michail Chatzianastasis , George Dasoulas , Georgios Siolas , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

Controversy exists on whether differentiable neural architecture search methods discover wiring topology effectively. To understand how wiring topology evolves, we study the underlying mechanism of several existing differentiable NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Sirui Xie , Shoukang Hu , Xinjiang Wang , Chunxiao Liu , Jianping Shi , Xunying Liu , Dahua Lin