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Neural Architecture Search (NAS), the process of automating architecture engineering, is an appealing next step to advancing end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), replacing expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Huahuan Zheng , Keyu An , Zhijian Ou

Neural architecture search (NAS) remains a challenging problem, which is attributed to the indispensable and time-consuming component of performance estimation (PE). In this paper, we provide a novel yet systematic rethinking of PE in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Qiang Wang , Qixiang Ye , Zhenguo Li , Yonghong Tian , Qi Tian

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) has achieved remarkable results in deep neural network design. Differentiable architecture search converts the search over discrete architectures into a hyperparameter optimization problem which can be…

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

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become a key component of AutoML and a standard tool to automate the design of deep neural networks. Recently, training-free NAS as an emerging paradigm has successfully reduced the search costs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhenfeng He , Yao Shu , Zhongxiang Dai , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automatically design deep neural networks of satisfactory performance. Wherein, architecture performance predictor is critical to efficiently value an intermediate neural architecture. But for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Neural architecture search (NAS) is proposed to automate the architecture design process and attracts overwhelming interest from both academia and industry. However, it is confronted with overfitting issue due to the high-dimensional search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yang Jiang , Cong Zhao , Zeyang Dou , Lei Pang

High sensitivity of neural architecture search (NAS) methods against their input such as step-size (i.e., learning rate) and search space prevents practitioners from applying them out-of-the-box to their own problems, albeit its purpose is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Youhei Akimoto , Shinichi Shirakawa , Nozomu Yoshinari , Kento Uchida , Shota Saito , Kouhei Nishida

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained immense popularity owing to its ability to automate neural architecture design. A number of training-free metrics are recently proposed to realize NAS without training, hence making NAS more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yao Shu , Zhongxiang Dai , Zhaoxuan Wu , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

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

Existing Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods either encode neural architectures using discrete encodings that do not scale well, or adopt supervised learning-based methods to jointly learn architecture representations and optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shen Yan , Yu Zheng , Wei Ao , Xiao Zeng , Mi Zhang

We present BN-NAS, neural architecture search with Batch Normalization (BN-NAS), to accelerate neural architecture search (NAS). BN-NAS can significantly reduce the time required by model training and evaluation in NAS. Specifically, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Baopu Li , Chen Lin , Chuming Li , Ming Sun , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

The discovery of neural architectures from simple building blocks is a long-standing goal of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Hierarchical search spaces are a promising step towards this goal but lack a unifying search space design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Simon Schrodi , Danny Stoll , Binxin Ru , Rhea Sukthanker , Thomas Brox , Frank Hutter

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao