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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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) defines the design of Neural Networks as a search problem. Unfortunately, NAS is computationally intensive because of various possibilities depending on the number of elements in the design and the possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Brian Moser , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

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

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

Neural architecture search (NAS) has made tremendous progress in the automatic design of effective neural network structures but suffers from a heavy computational burden. One-shot NAS significantly alleviates the burden through weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Peijie Dong , Xin Niu , Lujun Li , Zhiliang Tian , Xiaodong Wang , Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Dongsheng Li

In spite of the outstanding performance, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is criticized for massive computation. Recently, Zero-shot NAS has emerged as a promising approach by exploiting Zero-cost (ZC) proxies, which markedly reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Xiang Liu , Zhenheng Tang , Xuebo Liu , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Recently, predictor-based algorithms emerged as a promising approach for neural architecture search (NAS). For NAS, we typically have to calculate the validation accuracy of a large number of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), what is…

Early methods in the rapidly developing field of neural architecture search (NAS) required fully training thousands of neural networks. To reduce this extreme computational cost, dozens of techniques have since been proposed to predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Colin White , Arber Zela , Binxin Ru , Yang Liu , Frank Hutter

We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Training-free metrics (a.k.a. zero-cost proxies) are widely used to avoid resource-intensive neural network training, especially in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Recent studies show that existing training-free metrics have several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Haytham M. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising approach for automatically designing neural network architectures. However, the architecture estimation of NAS is computationally expensive and time-consuming because of training multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kun Jing , Luoyu Chen , Jungang Xu , Jianwei Tai , Yiyu Wang , Shuaimin Li

Recent advancements in Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) highlight the efficacy of zero-cost proxies in various NAS benchmarks. Several studies propose the automated design of zero-cost proxies to achieve SOTA performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Xinglin Pan , Zimian Wei , Xiang Liu , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) often trains and evaluates a large number of architectures. Recent predictor-based NAS approaches attempt to alleviate such heavy computation costs with two key steps: sampling some architecture-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junru Wu , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Ye Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Mei Chen , Lu Yuan

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become increasingly popular in the deep learning community recently, mainly because it can provide an opportunity to allow interested users without rich expertise to benefit from the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shiqing Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Reliable yet efficient evaluation of generalisation performance of a proposed architecture is crucial to the success of neural architecture search (NAS). Traditional approaches face a variety of limitations: training each architecture to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Binxin Ru , Clare Lyle , Lisa Schut , Miroslav Fil , Mark van der Wilk , Yarin Gal

Determining the performance of a Deep Neural Network during Neural Architecture Search processes is essential for identifying optimal architectures and hyperparameters. Traditionally, this process requires training and evaluation of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Paolo Romano , Penousal Machado

Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been introduced and show impressive performance on many benchmarks. Among those NAS studies, Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT) aims to adapt the given neural architecture to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Do-Guk Kim , Heung-Chang Lee

Many hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been developed to optimize the topology of neural networks (NN) with the joint objectives of higher accuracy and lower latency. Recently, both accuracy and latency predictors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah