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Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design process of high-performing architectures, but remains bottlenecked by expensive performance evaluation. Most existing studies that achieve faster evaluation are mostly tied to cell-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shiwen Qin , Alexander Auras , Shay B. Cohen , Elliot J. Crowley , Michael Moeller , Linus Ericsson , Jovita Lukasik

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) is a key part of evolutionary machine learning, which commonly utilizes evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to automatically design high-performing deep neural architectures. During past years,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Yun Liu , Jiahao Fan , Yanan Sun

The traditional Neural Network-development process requires substantial expert knowledge and relies heavily on intuition and trial-and-error. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks were introduced to robustly search for network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mohamed Shahawy , Elhadj Benkhelifa

In the past decade, advances in deep learning have resulted in breakthroughs in a variety of areas, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech recognition, and reinforcement learning. Specialized, high-performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Colin White , Mahmoud Safari , Rhea Sukthanker , Binxin Ru , Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Debadeepta Dey , Frank Hutter

Automatic methods for generating state-of-the-art neural network architectures without human experts have generated significant attention recently. This is because of the potential to remove human experts from the design loop which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 George Adam , Jonathan Lorraine

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

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

Recently, predictor-based algorithms emerged as a promising approach for neural architecture search (NAS). For NAS, we typically have to calculate the validation accuracy of a large number of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), what is…

Recent studies on neural architecture search have shown that automatically designed neural networks perform as good as expert-crafted architectures. While most existing works aim at finding architectures that optimize the prediction…

Effective and efficient graph representation learning is essential for enabling critical downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and subgraph search. However, existing graph neural network (GNN) architectures often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sixuan Wang , Jiao Yin , Jinli Cao , MingJian Tang , Hua Wang , Yanchun Zhang

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an effective method of finding the global optima of black-box functions. Recently BO has been applied to neural architecture search and shows better performance than pure evolutionary strategies. All these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Lizheng Ma , Jiaxu Cui , Bo Yang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has witnessed prevailing success in image classification and (very recently) segmentation tasks. In this paper, we present the first preliminary study on introducing the NAS algorithm to generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Xinyu Gong , Shiyu Chang , Yifan Jiang , Zhangyang Wang

An important step in the task of neural network design, such as hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) or neural architecture search (NAS), is the evaluation of a candidate model's performance. Given fixed computational resources, one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shengcao Cao , Xiaofang Wang , Kris Kitani

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Kaiqiang Xu , Erhu Zhao , Yongjun Xu

Deep learning has become in recent years a cornerstone tool fueling key innovations in the industry, such as autonomous driving. To attain good performances, the neural network architecture used for a given application must be chosen with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Anthony Cazasnoves , Pierre-Antoine Ganaye , Kévin Sanchis , Tugdual Ceillier

Neural Architecture Search remains a very challenging meta-learning problem. Several recent techniques based on parameter-sharing idea have focused on reducing the NAS running time by leveraging proxy models, leading to architectures with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Minsu Cho , Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hard computationally expensive optimization problem with a discrete, vast, and spiky search space. One of the key research efforts dedicated to this space focuses on accelerating NAS via certain proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bo Lyu , Yu Cui , Tuo Shi , Ke Li

The standard paradigm in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to search for a fully deterministic architecture with specific operations and connections. In this work, we instead propose to search for the optimal operation distribution, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingchen Wan , Binxin Ru , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

Cognitive diagnosis plays a vital role in modern intelligent education platforms to reveal students' proficiency in knowledge concepts for subsequent adaptive tasks. However, due to the requirement of high model interpretability, existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shangshang Yang , Haiping Ma , Cheng Zhen , Ye Tian , Limiao Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Xingyi Zhang

Neural architecture search automates the design of neural network architectures usually by exploring a large and thus complex architecture search space. To advance the architecture search, we present a graph diffusion-based NAS approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Rohan Asthana , Joschua Conrad , Youssef Dawoud , Maurits Ortmanns , Vasileios Belagiannis