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Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

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

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

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the importance of candidate operations and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaoxing Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Jianlin Su , Xiaokang Yang

Search spaces hallmark the advancement of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Large and complex search spaces with versatile building operators and structures provide more opportunities to brew promising architectures, yet pose severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Bhavna Gopal , Arjun Sridhar , Tunhou Zhang , Yiran Chen

There has been a large literature of neural architecture search, but most existing work made use of heuristic rules that largely constrained the search flexibility. In this paper, we first relax these manually designed constraints and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Kaifeng Bi , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai

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 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

In this paper, we propose Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) where we elaborately design broad scalable architecture dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural Network (BCNN) to solve the above issue. On one hand, the proposed broad scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , Zhiquan Sun , C. L. Philip Chen

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

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based neural architecture search (NAS) generally guarantees better convergence yet suffers from the requirement of huge computational resources compared with gradient-based approaches, due to the rollout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jihao Liu , Ming Zhang , Yangting Sun , Boxiao Liu , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

DARTS is a popular algorithm for neural architecture search (NAS). Despite its great advantage in search efficiency, DARTS often suffers weak stability, which reflects in the large variation among individual trials as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Kaifeng Bi , Changping Hu , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

This paper aims at enlarging the problem of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) from Single-Path and Multi-Path Search to automated Mixed-Path Search. In particular, we model the NAS problem as a sparse supernet using a new continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yan Wu , Aoming Liu , Zhiwu Huang , Siwei Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) marks a milestone in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), boasting simplicity and small search costs. However, DARTS still suffers from frequent performance collapse, which happens when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin , Yukang Chen

Federated Learning (FL) often struggles with data heterogeneity due to the naturally uneven distribution of user data across devices. Federated Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enables collaborative search for optimal model architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xinyuan Huang , Jiechao Gao

The recent progress in neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed scaling the automated design of neural architectures to real-world domains, such as object detection and semantic segmentation. However, one prerequisite for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Thomas Elsken , Benedikt Staffler , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

Recently, much attention has been spent on neural architecture search (NAS), aiming to outperform those manually-designed neural architectures on high-level vision recognition tasks. Inspired by the success, here we attempt to leverage NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chengrong Gong , Zongwen Bai , Chunhua Shen

This paper presents a novel neural architecture search method, called LiDNAS, for generating lightweight monocular depth estimation models. Unlike previous neural architecture search (NAS) approaches, where finding optimized networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) requires joint optimization of accuracy and latency under device constraints. Traditional supernet-based methods require multiple GPU days per dataset. Large Language Model (LLM)-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyi Zhu , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang