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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been pivotal in finding optimal network configurations for Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). While many methods explore NAS from a global search-space perspective, the employed optimization schemes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yi Ru Wang , Samir Khaki , Weihang Zheng , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Consider the Ants Nearby Treasure Search (ANTS) problem introduced by Feinerman, Korman, Lotker, and Sereni (PODC 2012), where $n$ mobile agents, initially placed at the origin of an infinite grid, collaboratively search for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Yuval Emek , Tobias Langner , Jara Uitto , Roger Wattenhofer

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Resource is an important constraint when deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on mobile and edge devices. Existing works commonly adopt the cell-based search approach, which limits the flexibility of network patterns in learned cell…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tunhou Zhang , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Zhenwen Li , Feng Yan , Chengyu Huang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

The demands for higher performance and accuracy in neural networks (NNs) never end. Existing tensor compilation and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques orthogonally optimize the two goals but actually share many similarities in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Chenggang Zhao , Genghan Zhang , Ao Shen , Mingyu Gao

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

This article presents a unique design for a parser using the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. The paper implements the intuitive thought process of human mind through the activities of artificial ants. The scheme presented here uses a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepyaman Maiti , Ayan Acharya , Amit Konar , Janarthanan Ramadoss

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted a lot of attention and has been illustrated to bring tangible benefits in a large number of applications in the past few years. Architecture topology and architecture size have been regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Xuanyi Dong , Lu Liu , Katarzyna Musial , Bogdan Gabrys

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai

Neural architecture search (NAS) can have a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing optimal neural network architectures for various tasks. A variant, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Rongrong Ji

With the increasing demand and complexity of networks, factors such as balancing the load, improving the performance, reducing delay and finding optimal path between nodes in a computer network have become crucial. The traditional routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chandana M , Sanjeev Thakur

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods significantly reduce the search cost by considering the whole search space as one network, which only needs to be trained once. However, current methods select each operation independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Xiu Su , Tao Huang , Yanxi Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Chang Xu

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Liam Li , Ameet Talwalkar

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have traditionally been explored by human experts in a manual search process that is time-consuming and ineffectively explores the massive space of potential solutions. Neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Gerard Jacques van Wyk , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of Neural Architecture Search (NAS), emphasizing its evolution from manual design to automated, computationally-driven approaches. It covers the inception and growth of NAS, highlighting its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Fanfei Meng , Chen-Ao Wang , Lele Zhang

We consider the problem of extracting accurate average ant trajectories from many (possibly inaccurate) input trajectories contributed by citizen scientists. Although there are many generic software tools for motion tracking and specific…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Livio De La Cruz , Stephen Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev , Paul Shen , Sankar Veeramoni

In this work, we present a simple and general search space shrinking method, called Angle-Based search space Shrinking (ABS), for Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Our approach progressively simplifies the original search space by dropping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yiming Hu , Yuding Liang , Zichao Guo , Ruosi Wan , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei , Qingyi Gu , Jian Sun

When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters - population size, mutation rate, cloning rate, and number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William J. Teahan

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman