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Network Morphism based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most efficient methods, however, knowing where and when to add new neurons or remove dis-functional ones is generally left to black-box Reinforcement Learning models. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Suman Sapkota , Binod Bhattarai

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in designing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models that are both accurate and efficient. Recently, two-stage NAS, e.g. BigNAS, decouples the model training and searching process and achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Chengyue Gong , Vikas Chandra

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods aim to automatically find the optimal deep neural network (DNN) architecture as measured by a given objective function, typically some combination of task accuracy and inference efficiency. For many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ravi Krishna , Aravind Kalaiah , Bichen Wu , Maxim Naumov , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Misha Smelyanskiy , Kurt Keutzer

Ant Colony Optimization algorithm is a magnificent heuristics technique based on the behavior of ants. Parallel computing is a means to achieve the desired results in commensurable execution time. Parallelization of Ant Colony Optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Sandeep U Mane , Pooja S. Lokare , Harsha R. Gaikwad

The standard paradigm in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to search for a fully deterministic architecture with specific operations and connections. In this work, we instead propose to search for the optimal operation distribution, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingchen Wan , Binxin Ru , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

Neural architecture search (NAS) finds high performing networks for a given task. Yet the results of NAS are fairly prosaic; they did not e.g. create a shift from convolutional structures to transformers. This is not least because the…

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a critical component of modern AI systems, such as recommendation engines and retrieval-augmented large language models (RAG-LLMs). However, scaling ANNS to billion-entry datasets exposes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sitian Chen , Amelie Chi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Yusen Li , Xin Yao

The success of deep learning in recent years has lead to a rising demand for neural network architecture engineering. As a consequence, neural architecture search (NAS), which aims at automatically designing neural network architectures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Benedikt Staffler , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada , Frank Hutter

Continual learning with neural networks is an important learning framework in AI that aims to learn a sequence of tasks well. However, it is often confronted with three challenges: (1) overcome the catastrophic forgetting problem, (2) adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Qiang Gao , Zhipeng Luo , Diego Klabjan

Deep learning is increasingly impacting various aspects of contemporary society. Artificial neural networks have emerged as the dominant models for solving an expanding range of tasks. The introduction of Neural Architecture Search (NAS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Simone Sarti , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

This paper presents a study of automatic design of neural network architectures for skeleton-based action recognition. Specifically, we encode a skeleton-based action instance into a tensor and carefully define a set of operations to build…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Haoyuan Zhang , Yonghong Hou , Pichao Wang , Zihui Guo , Wanqing Li

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hard computationally expensive optimization problem with a discrete, vast, and spiky search space. One of the key research efforts dedicated to this space focuses on accelerating NAS via certain proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bo Lyu , Yu Cui , Tuo Shi , Ke Li

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has attracted extensive attention due to its efficiency in searching for cell structures. DARTS mainly focuses on the operation search and derives the cell topology from the operation weights.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yu-Chao Gu , Li-Juan Wang , Yun Liu , Yi Yang , Yu-Huan Wu , Shao-Ping Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng

In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-15 Francesco Paolo Casale , Jonathan Gordon , Nicolo Fusi

This paper introduces neural architecture search (NAS) for the automatic discovery of small models for keyword spotting (KWS) in limited resource environments. We employ a differentiable NAS approach to optimize the structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 David Peter , Wolfgang Roth , Franz Pernkopf

Despite the remarkable successes of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision, it is time-consuming and error-prone to manually design a CNN. Among various Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods that are motivated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Hao Tan , Ran Cheng , Shihua Huang , Cheng He , Changxiao Qiu , Fan Yang , Ping Luo

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 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

Automating the research for the best neural network model is a task that has gained more and more relevance in the last few years. In this context, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents the most effective technique whose results rival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andrea Falanti , Eugenio Lomurno , Stefano Samele , Danilo Ardagna , Matteo Matteucci

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been growing in popularity. These techniques have been fundamental to automate and speed up the time consuming and error-prone process of synthesizing novel Deep Learning (DL) architectures. NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hadjer Benmeziane , Kaoutar El Maghraoui , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Smail Niar , Martin Wistuba , Naigang Wang