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Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, but it achieved its tremendous success using deep network architectures which are mostly hand-crafted and therefore likely suboptimal. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful automatic alternative to manual design of a neural network. In the zero-shot version, a fast ranking function is used to compare architectures without training them. The outputs of the ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Accurate classification of medical images is essential for modern diagnostics. Deep learning advancements led clinicians to increasingly use sophisticated models to make faster and more accurate decisions, sometimes replacing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lunchen Xie , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Gambella , Danilo Ardagna , Manuel Roveri , Matteo Matteucci , Qingjiang Shi

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the importance of candidate operations and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaoxing Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Jianlin Su , Xiaokang Yang

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai

Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) typically optimises the architecture search process by exploiting the network or gradient properties at initialisation through zero-cost proxies. The existing proxies often rely on labelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rohan Asthana , Joschua Conrad , Maurits Ortmanns , Vasileios Belagiannis

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potential in effectively reducing manual effort in network design by automatically discovering optimal architectures. What is noteworthy is that as of now, object detection is less touched by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ning Wang , Yang Gao , Hao Chen , Peng Wang , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yanning Zhang

In essence, a neural network is an arbitrary differentiable, parametrized function. Choosing a neural network architecture for any task is as complex as searching the space of those functions. For the last few years, 'neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 George Philipp

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Zero-shot proxies, also known as training-free metrics, are widely adopted to reduce the computational overhead in neural network evaluation for scenarios such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), as they do not require any training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , HaythamM. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become a common approach to developing and discovering new neural architectures for different target platforms and purposes. However, scanning the search space is comprised of long training processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tal Hakim

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) yields state-of-the-art neural networks that outperform their best manually-designed counterparts. However, previous NAS methods search for architectures under one set of training hyper-parameters (i.e., a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xiaoliang Dai , Alvin Wan , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Zijian He , Zhen Wei , Kan Chen , Yuandong Tian , Matthew Yu , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

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

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) refers to automatically design the architecture. We propose an hourglass-inspired approach (HourNAS) for this problem that is motivated by the fact that the effects of the architecture often proceed from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Wei Zhang , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chang Xu