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The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and studies show that increasing the model capacity of an architecture topology (e.g., width expansion) can bring consistent robustness improvements. This reveals…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xuefei Ning , Junbo Zhao , Wenshuo Li , Tianchen Zhao , Yin Zheng , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in designing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models that are both accurate and efficient. Recently, two-stage NAS, e.g. BigNAS, decouples the model training and searching process and achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Chengyue Gong , Vikas Chandra

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in finding better neural network designs. Sample-based NAS is the most reliable approach which aims at exploring the search space and evaluating the most promising architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Han Shi , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok , Tong Zhang

One-Shot methods have evolved into one of the most popular methods in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) due to weight sharing and single training of a supernet. However, existing methods generally suffer from two issues: predetermined number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zan Shen , Jiang Qian , Bojin Zhuang , Shaojun Wang , Jing Xiao

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) enables finding the best-performing architecture from a search space automatically. Most NAS methods exploit an over-parameterized network (i.e., a supernet) containing all possible architectures (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Youngmin Oh , Hyunju Lee , Bumsub Ham

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is widely used to automatically obtain the neural network with the best performance among a large number of candidate architectures. To reduce the search time, zero-shot NAS aims at designing training-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Guihong Li , Yuedong Yang , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Radu Marculescu

Training a supernet matters for one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods since it serves as a basic performance estimator for different architectures (paths). Current methods mainly hold the assumption that a supernet should give a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Shan You , Tao Huang , Mingmin Yang , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang

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) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-shot NAS methods prove to be more efficient in performing NAS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Waqwoya Abebe , Sadegh Jafari , Sixing Yu , Akash Dutta , Jan Strube , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate the search procedure of architecture instead of manual design. Even if recent NAS approaches finish the search within days, lengthy training is still required for a specific architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

One-shot methods have significantly advanced the field of neural architecture search (NAS) by adopting weight-sharing strategy to reduce search costs. However, the accuracy of performance estimation can be compromised by co-adaptation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jianfeng Li , Jiawen Zhang , Feng Wang , Lianbo Ma

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

Gradient-based one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) has significantly reduced the cost of exploring architectural spaces with discrete design choices, such as selecting operations within a model. However, the field faces two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Abhash Kumar Jha , Shakiba Moradian , Arjun Krishnakumar , Martin Rapp , Frank Hutter

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool for automating architecture design. One-Shot NAS techniques, such as DARTS, have gained substantial popularity due to their combination of search efficiency with simplicity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is emerging as a new research direction which has the potential to replace the hand-crafted neural architectures designed for specific tasks. Previous evolution based architecture search requires high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang