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Among existing Neural Architecture Search methods, DARTS is known for its efficiency and simplicity. This approach applies continuous relaxation of network representation to construct a weight-sharing supernet and enables the identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hongyi He , Longjun Liu , Haonan Zhang , Nanning Zheng

Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) has gained much success in discovering flexible and diverse cell types. To reduce the evaluation gap, the supernet is expected to have identical layers with the target network. However, even…

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Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as powerful architectures for graph-structured data, yet remain constrained by rigid designs and lack quantifiable interpretability. Current state-of-the-art GTs commit to fixed GNN types across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shruti Sarika Chakraborty , Peter Minary

Advanced deep neural networks (DNNs), designed by either human or AutoML algorithms, are growing increasingly complex. Diverse operations are connected by complicated connectivity patterns, e.g., various types of skip connections. Those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xinyu Gong , Boris Hanin , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we propose a Shapley value based method to evaluate operation contribution (Shapley-NAS) for neural architecture search. Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) acquires the optimal architectures by optimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Han Xiao , Ziwei Wang , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

Recently, differentiable search methods have made major progress in reducing the computational costs of neural architecture search. However, these approaches often report lower accuracy in evaluating the searched architecture or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

Transferrable neural architecture search can be viewed as a binary optimization problem where a single optimal path should be selected among candidate paths in each edge within the repeated cell block of the directed a cyclic graph form.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Hyeong Gwon Hong , Pyunghwan Ahn , Junmo Kim

We present a Model Uncertainty-aware Differentiable ARchiTecture Search ($\mu$DARTS) that optimizes neural networks to simultaneously achieve high accuracy and low uncertainty. We introduce concrete dropout within DARTS cells and include a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an automatic technique that can search for well-performed architectures for a specific task. Although NAS surpasses human-designed architecture in many fields, the high computational cost of architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Yuqiao Liu , Haipeng Li , Yanan Sun , Shuaicheng Liu

Designing effective neural networks is a cornerstone of deep learning, and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful tool for automating this process. Among the existing NAS approaches, Differentiable Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Pengjin Wu , Ferrante Neri , Zhenhua Feng

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in the field of automated machine learning (AutoML). NAS has outperformed hand-designed networks and made a significant step forward in the field of automating the design of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Matej Grobelnik , Joaquin Vanschoren

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides a promising avenue for automating the complex design of deep learning (DL) models. However, current differentiable NAS methods often face constraints in efficiency, operation…

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Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown encouraging results in automating the architecture design. Recently, DARTS relaxes the search process with a differentiable formulation that leverages weight-sharing and SGD where all candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Weijun Hong , Guilin Li , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Yunhe Wang , Zhenguo Li , Yong Yu

Strong priors are imposed on the search space of Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS), such that cells of the same type share the same topological structure and each intermediate node retains two operators from distinct nodes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xuan Rao , Bo Zhao , Derong Liu , Cesare Alippi

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

This work introduces improvements to the stability and generalizability of Cyclic DARTS (CDARTS). CDARTS is a Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS)-based approach to neural architecture search (NAS) that uses a cyclic feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Emily Herron , Derek Rose , Steven Young

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

Albeit being a prevalent architecture searching approach, differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is largely hindered by its substantial memory cost since the entire supernet resides in the memory. This is where the single-path DARTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xiaoxing Wang , Xiangxiang Chu , Yuda Fan , Zhexi Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely adopted to design neural networks for various computer vision tasks. One of its most promising subdomains is differentiable NAS (DNAS), where the optimal architecture is found in a…

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