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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a research field concerned with utilizing optimization algorithms to design optimal neural network architectures. There are many approaches concerning the architectural search spaces, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

In this paper, we present a general framework to scale graph autoencoders (AE) and graph variational autoencoders (VAE). This framework leverages graph degeneracy concepts to train models only from a dense subset of nodes instead of using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Viet Anh Tran , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In this paper, a neural architecture search (NAS) framework is proposed for 3D medical image segmentation, to automatically optimize a neural architecture from a large design space. Our NAS framework searches the structure of each layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sungwoong Kim , Ildoo Kim , Sungbin Lim , Woonhyuk Baek , Chiheon Kim , Hyungjoo Cho , Boogeon Yoon , Taesup Kim

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

Current neural architecture search (NAS) strategies focus only on finding a single, good, architecture. They offer little insight into why a specific network is performing well, or how we should modify the architecture if we want further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Binxin Ru , Xingchen Wan , Xiaowen Dong , Michael Osborne

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been extensively studied in the past few years. A popular approach is to represent each neural architecture in the search space as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and then search over all DAGs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Colin White , Willie Neiswanger , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani

To achieve excellent performance with modern neural networks, having the right network architecture is important. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) concerns the automatic discovery of task-specific network architectures. Modern NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Alexander Chebykin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Predictor-based methods have substantially enhanced Neural Architecture Search (NAS) optimization. The efficacy of these predictors is largely influenced by the method of encoding neural network architectures. While traditional encodings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

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

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) automatically finds the best task-specific neural network topology, outperforming many manual architecture designs. However, it can be prohibitively expensive as the search requires training thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Chris Zhang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

We propose a combination of a variational autoencoder and a transformer based model which fully utilises graph convolutional and graph pooling layers to operate directly on graphs. The transformer model implements a novel node encoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Joshua Mitton , Hans M. Senn , Klaas Wynne , Roderick Murray-Smith

Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yong Guo , Yin Zheng , Mingkui Tan , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Predicting the properties of a molecule from its structure is a challenging task. Recently, deep learning methods have improved the state of the art for this task because of their ability to learn useful features from the given data. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shengli Jiang , Prasanna Balaprakash

In prediction-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS), performance indicators derived from graph convolutional networks have shown remarkable success. These indicators, achieved by representing feed-forward structures as component graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Minh Le , Nhan Nguyen , Ngoc Hoang Luong

Graphs are a fundamental abstraction for modeling relational data. However, graphs are discrete and combinatorial in nature, and learning representations suitable for machine learning tasks poses statistical and computational challenges. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Aditya Grover , Aaron Zweig , Stefano Ermon

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

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

Latent variable models like the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) are commonly used to learn representations of images. However, for downstream tasks like semantic classification, the representations learned by VAE are less competitive than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-31 Mingtian Zhang , Tim Z. Xiao , Brooks Paige , David Barber