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The rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence necessitates automated approaches to co-design neural network architecture and neural accelerators to maximize system efficiency and address productivity challenges. To enable joint…

The emergence of neural architecture search (NAS) has greatly advanced the research on network design. Recent proposals such as gradient-based methods or one-shot approaches significantly boost the efficiency of NAS. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Yizhou Zhou , Xiaoyan Sun , Chong Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha , Wenjun Zeng

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) uses a continuous relaxation of network representation and dramatically accelerates Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by almost thousands of times in GPU-day. However, the searching process of DARTS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Huiqun Wang , Ruijie Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Graph Neural Architecture Search (GNAS) has shown promising results in finding the best graph neural network architecture on a given graph dataset. However, existing GNAS methods still require intensive human labor and rich domain knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haishuai Wang , Yang Gao , Xin Zheng , Peng Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Philip S. Yu

For the goal of automated design of high-performance deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methodology is becoming increasingly important for both academia and industries.Due to the costly stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shengran Hu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He , Zhichao Lu , Jing Wang , Miao Zhang

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Neural network architectures found by sophistic search algorithms achieve strikingly good test performance, surpassing most human-crafted network models by significant margins. Although computationally efficient, their design is often very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

Recently Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has aroused great interest in both academia and industry, however it remains challenging because of its huge and non-continuous search space. Instead of applying evolutionary algorithm or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xinbang Zhang , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Conventional neural architecture search (NAS) approaches are based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary strategy, which take more than 3000 GPU hours to find a good model on CIFAR-10. We propose an efficient NAS approach learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

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

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

If NAS methods are solutions, what is the problem? Most existing NAS methods require two-stage parameter optimization. However, performance of the same architecture in the two stages correlates poorly. In this work, we propose a new problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shoukang Hu , Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Jianping Shi , Xunying Liu , Dahua Lin

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) benchmarks and algorithms prioritize well-studied tasks, e.g. image classification on CIFAR or ImageNet. This makes the performance of NAS approaches in more diverse areas poorly understood. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Renbo Tu , Nicholas Roberts , Mikhail Khodak , Junhong Shen , Frederic Sala , Ameet Talwalkar

This work presents a novel approach to neural architecture search (NAS) that aims to reduce energy costs and increase carbon efficiency during the model design process. The proposed framework, called carbon-efficient NAS (CE-NAS), consists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yiyang Zhao , Tian Guo

Improving search efficiency serves as one of the crucial objectives of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, many current approaches ignore the universality of the search strategy and fail to reduce the computational redundancy during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Danpei Zhao , Zhuoran Liu , Bo Yuan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is increasingly popular to automatically explore the accuracy versus computational complexity trade-off of Deep Learning (DL) architectures. When targeting tiny edge devices, the main challenge for DL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Matteo Risso , Alessio Burrello , Luca Benini , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino , Daniele Jahier Pagliari

In this paper, we introduce a new reinforcement learning (RL) based neural architecture search (NAS) methodology for effective and efficient generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture search. The key idea is to formulate the GAN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuan Tian , Qin Wang , Zhiwu Huang , Wen Li , Dengxin Dai , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Olga Fink

A key problem in deep multi-attribute learning is to effectively discover the inter-attribute correlation structures. Typically, the conventional deep multi-attribute learning approaches follow the pipeline of manually designing the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

Point cloud architecture design has become a crucial problem for 3D deep learning. Several efforts exist to manually design architectures with high accuracy in point cloud tasks such as classification, segmentation, and detection. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Guohao Li , Mengmeng Xu , Silvio Giancola , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem