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Current neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms still require expert knowledge and effort to design a search space for network construction. In this paper, we consider automating the search space design to minimize human interference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daquan Zhou , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaochen Lian , Linjie Yang , Yujing Xue , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Neural network-based semantic segmentation has achieved remarkable results when large amounts of annotated data are available, that is, in the supervised case. However, such data is expensive to collect and so methods have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xueqing Deng , Yi Zhu , Yuxin Tian , Shawn Newsam

Efficient evaluation of a network architecture drawn from a large search space remains a key challenge in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Vanilla NAS evaluates each architecture by training from scratch, which gives the true performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca , Tian Guo

This paper proposes a novel medical image segmentation framework, MNAS-Unet, which combines Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and Neural Architecture Search (NAS). MNAS-Unet dynamically explores promising network architectures through MCTS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Liping Meng , Fan Nie , Yunyun Zhang , Chao Han

In the past few years, Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DNAS) rapidly imposed itself as the trending approach to automate the discovery of deep neural network architectures. This rise is mainly due to the popularity of DARTS, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Alexandre Heuillet , Ahmad Nasser , Hichem Arioui , Hedi Tabia

Accurate classification of medical images is essential for modern diagnostics. Deep learning advancements led clinicians to increasingly use sophisticated models to make faster and more accurate decisions, sometimes replacing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lunchen Xie , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Gambella , Danilo Ardagna , Manuel Roveri , Matteo Matteucci , Qingjiang Shi

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

The growing interest in both the automation of machine learning and deep learning has inevitably led to the development of a wide variety of automated methods for neural architecture search. The choice of the network architecture has proven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Martin Wistuba , Ambrish Rawat , Tejaswini Pedapati

Benefiting from the search efficiency, differentiable neural architecture search (NAS) has evolved as the most dominant alternative to automatically design competitive deep neural networks (DNNs). We note that DNNs must be executed under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Hao Kong , Shuo Huai , Hui Chen , Weichen Liu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), a framework which automates the task of designing neural networks, has recently been actively studied in the field of deep learning. However, there are only a few NAS methods suitable for 3D medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Woong Bae , Seungho Lee , Yeha Lee , Beomhee Park , Minki Chung , Kyu-Hwan Jung

Panoptic segmentation is posed as a new popular test-bed for the state-of-the-art holistic scene understanding methods with the requirement of simultaneously segmenting both foreground things and background stuff. The state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yangxin Wu , Gengwei Zhang , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

In this paper, we propose a Neural Architecture Search strategy based on self supervision and semi-supervised learning for the task of semantic segmentation. Our approach builds an optimized neural network (NN) model for this task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Loïc Pauletto , Massih-Reza Amini , Nicolas Winckler

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly regarded for their energy efficiency, inherent activation sparsity, and suitability for real-time processing in edge devices. However, most current SNN methods adopt architectures resembling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yesmine Abdennadher , Giovanni Perin , Riccardo Mazzieri , Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

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

Recent advances in neural architecture search (NAS) demand tremendous computational resources, which makes it difficult to reproduce experiments and imposes a barrier-to-entry to researchers without access to large-scale computation. We aim…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Chris Ying , Aaron Klein , Esteban Real , Eric Christiansen , Kevin Murphy , Frank Hutter

The recent breakthroughs of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have motivated various applications in medical image segmentation. However, most existing work either simply rely on hyper-parameter tuning or stick to a fixed network backbone,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Xingang Yan , Weiwen Jiang , Yiyu Shi , Cheng Zhuo

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

DARTS is a popular algorithm for neural architecture search (NAS). Despite its great advantage in search efficiency, DARTS often suffers weak stability, which reflects in the large variation among individual trials as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Kaifeng Bi , Changping Hu , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

Neural architecture search (NAS) has recently been addressed from various directions, including discrete, sampling-based methods and efficient differentiable approaches. While the former are notoriously expensive, the latter suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Margret Keuper