English
Related papers

Related papers: Single-level Optimization For Differential Archite…

200 papers

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been successfully applied to tasks like image classification and language modeling for finding efficient high-performance network architectures. In ASR field especially end-to-end ASR, the related…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Xian Shi , Pan Zhou , Wei Chen , Lei Xie

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has attracted growing interest. To reduce the search cost, recent work has explored weight sharing across models and made major progress in One-Shot NAS. However, it has been observed that a model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Xing Wang , Min Zheng

Despite the fast development of differentiable architecture search (DARTS), it suffers from long-standing performance instability, which extremely limits its application. Existing robustifying methods draw clues from the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaoxing Wang , Bo Zhang , Shun Lu , Xiaolin Wei , Junchi Yan

Efficient performance estimation of architectures drawn from large search spaces is essential to Neural Architecture Search. One-Shot methods tackle this challenge by training one supernet to approximate the performance of every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shoukang Hu , Ruochen Wang , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jiashi Feng

This paper proposes Binary ArchitecTure Search (BATS), a framework that drastically reduces the accuracy gap between binary neural networks and their real-valued counterparts by means of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). We show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

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 rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

Automatic neural architecture search techniques are becoming increasingly important in machine learning area. Especially, weight sharing methods have shown remarkable potentials on searching good network architectures with few computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Muyuan Fang , Qiang Wang , Zhao Zhong

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a pivotal technique in automated machine learning. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA)-based methods demonstrate superior search quality but suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingbang Du , Enzhi Zhang , Rui Zhong , Yang Cao , Masaharu Munetomo

Hybrid attention architectures are becoming an increasingly important paradigm for improving LLM inference efficiency while preserving model quality, making hybrid architecture design a central problem. Existing designs often rely on manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Weizhe Chen , Miao Zhang , Junpeng Jiang , Yaping Li , Weili Guan , Liqiang Nie

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has attracted considerable attention as a gradient-based neural architecture search method. Since the introduction of DARTS, there has been little work done on adapting the action space based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Arash Ahmadian , Louis S. P. Liu , Yue Fei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Mahdi S. Hosseini

Neural Architecture Search remains a very challenging meta-learning problem. Several recent techniques based on parameter-sharing idea have focused on reducing the NAS running time by leveraging proxy models, leading to architectures with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Minsu Cho , Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

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

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