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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) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Due to the recent advances on Neural Architecture Search (NAS), it gains popularity in designing best networks for specific tasks. Although it shows promising results on many benchmarks and competitions, NAS still suffers from its demanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Minje Park

The key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is designing how to explore wisely in the huge search space. We propose a new NAS method called TNAS (NAS with trees), which improves search efficiency by exploring only a small number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guocheng Qian , Xuanyang Zhang , Guohao Li , Chen Zhao , Yukang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Sun

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful technique for discovering high-performing CNN architectures, but most existing methods rely on costly training or extensive sampling. Zero-shot NAS offers a training-free alternative by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ye Qiao , Jingcheng Li , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attentions in both academia and industry. In the early age, researchers mostly applied individual search methods which sample and evaluate the candidate architectures separately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Kaifeng Bi , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Zhengsu Chen , Lanfei Wang , An Xiao , Jianlong Chang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in automatically designing scalable network architectures for dense image predictions. However, existing NAS algorithms usually compromise on restricted search space and search on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiong Zhang , Hongmin Xu , Hong Mo , Jianchao Tan , Cheng Yang , Lei Wang , Wenqi Ren

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) has shown promising results discovering models that are both accurate and fast. For NAS, training a one-shot model has become a popular strategy to rank the relative quality of different architectures (child…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jiahui Yu , Pengchong Jin , Hanxiao Liu , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Mingxing Tan , Thomas Huang , Xiaodan Song , Ruoming Pang , Quoc Le

The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

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

Existing Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods either encode neural architectures using discrete encodings that do not scale well, or adopt supervised learning-based methods to jointly learn architecture representations and optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shen Yan , Yu Zheng , Wei Ao , Xiao Zeng , Mi Zhang

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising method for automatically design neural architectures. NAS adopts a search strategy to explore the predefined search space to find outstanding performance architecture with the minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Chen Wei , Chuang Niu , Yiping Tang , Yue Wang , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Due to limited computational cost and energy consumption, most neural network models deployed in mobile devices are tiny. However, tiny neural networks are commonly very vulnerable to attacks. Current research has proved that larger model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Guoyang Xie , Jinbao Wang , Guo Yu , Feng Zheng , Yaochu Jin

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu

Efficient deployment of neural networks (NN) requires the co-optimization of accuracy and latency. For example, hardware-aware neural architecture search has been used to automatically find NN architectures that satisfy a latency constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte