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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

We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been used recently to achieve improved performance in various tasks and most prominently in image classification. Yet, current search strategies rely on large labeled datasets, which limit their usage in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sapir Kaplan , Raja Giryes

In differentiable neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms like DARTS, the training set used to update model weight and the validation set used to update model architectures are sampled from the same data distribution. Thus, the uncommon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Ruisi Zhang , Youwei Liang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Pengtao Xie

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 An-Chieh Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Min Sun

The recently proposed training-free NAS methods abandon the training phase and design various zero-cost proxies as scores to identify excellent architectures, arousing extreme computational efficiency for neural architecture search. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Miao Zhang , Wei Huang , Li Wang

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is crucial for enabling computers to understand the emotions conveyed in human communication. With recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL), the performance of SER models has significantly improved.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Thejan Rajapakshe , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Berrak Sisman , Bjorn W. Schuller , Carlos Busso

Deep learning-based pathological image analysis presents unique challenges due to the practical constraints of network design. Most existing methods apply computer vision models directly to medical tasks, neglecting the distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Renao Yan

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Guohao Li , Guocheng Qian , Itzel C. Delgadillo , Matthias Müller , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

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

Differentiable architecture search has gradually become the mainstream research topic in the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for its high efficiency compared with the early NAS methods. Recent differentiable NAS also aims at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bo Lyu , Shiping Wen

Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods are introduced and show impressive performance on many benchmarks. Among those NAS studies, Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT) aims to improve the given neural architecture to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Do-Guk Kim , Heung-Chang Lee

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) was first proposed to achieve state-of-the-art performance through the discovery of new architecture patterns, without human intervention. An over-reliance on expert knowledge in the search space design has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Binxin Ru , Pedro Esperanca , Fabio Carlucci

The design of compact deep neural networks is a crucial task to enable widespread adoption of deep neural networks in the real-world, particularly for edge and mobile scenarios. Due to the time-consuming and challenging nature of manually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Andrew Hryniowski , Francis Li , Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

Continual learning with neural networks is an important learning framework in AI that aims to learn a sequence of tasks well. However, it is often confronted with three challenges: (1) overcome the catastrophic forgetting problem, (2) adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Qiang Gao , Zhipeng Luo , Diego Klabjan

Transferable neural architecture search (TNAS) has been introduced to design efficient neural architectures for multiple tasks, to enhance the practical applicability of NAS in real-world scenarios. In TNAS, architectural knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xun Zhou , Xingyu Wu , Liang Feng , Zhichao Lu , Kay Chen Tan

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

In previous works, only parameter weights of ASR models are optimized under fixed-topology architecture. However, the design of successful model architecture has always relied on human experience and intuition. Besides, many hyperparameters…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Yi-Chen Chen , Jui-Yang Hsu , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Hung-yi Lee

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman