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Neural architecture search (NAS) has seen a steep rise in interest over the last few years. Many algorithms for NAS consist of searching through a space of architectures by iteratively choosing an architecture, evaluating its performance by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Colin White , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing neural architectures by machines, has been considered a key step toward automatic machine learning. One notable NAS branch is the weight-sharing NAS, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guangrun Wang , Changlin Li , Liuchun Yuan , Jiefeng Peng , Xiaoyu Xian , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Liang Lin

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

Differential Neural Architecture Search (NAS) requires all layer choices to be held in memory simultaneously; this limits the size of both search space and final architecture. In contrast, Probabilistic NAS, such as PARSEC, learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Zhicheng Yan , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Bichen Wu , Matt Feiszli

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables finding the best-performing architecture from a search space automatically. Most NAS methods exploit an over-parameterized network (i.e., a supernet) containing all possible architectures (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Youngmin Oh , Hyunju Lee , Bumsub Ham

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

Deep neural networks have recently drawn considerable attention to build and evaluate artificial learning models for perceptual tasks. Here, we present a study on the performance of the deep learning models to deal with global optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Soheila Ghambari , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brévilliers

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yong Guo , Yin Zheng , Mingkui Tan , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an emerging topic in machine learning and computer vision. The fundamental ideology of NAS is using an automatic mechanism to replace manual designs for exploring powerful network architectures. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Lanfei Wang , Lingxi Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Jun Guo , Qi Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abhishek Singh , Anubhav Garg , Jinan Zhou , Shiv Ram Dubey , Debo Dutta

Benefiting from the search efficiency, differentiable neural architecture search (NAS) has evolved as the most dominant alternative to automatically design competitive deep neural networks (DNNs). We note that DNNs must be executed under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Hao Kong , Shuo Huai , Hui Chen , Weichen Liu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently become a topic of great interest. However, there is a potentially impactful issue within NAS that remains largely unrecognized: noise. Due to stochastic factors in neural network initialization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

The success of deep neural networks relies on significant architecture engineering. Recently neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a promise to greatly reduce manual effort in network design by automatically searching for optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ning Wang , Yang Gao , Hao Chen , Peng Wang , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yanning Zhang

Training a supernet matters for one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods since it serves as a basic performance estimator for different architectures (paths). Current methods mainly hold the assumption that a supernet should give a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Shan You , Tao Huang , Mingmin Yang , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang

With the shift towards on-device deep learning, ensuring a consistent behavior of an AI service across diverse compute platforms becomes tremendously important. Our work tackles the emergent problem of reducing predictive inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Rahul Duggal , Hao Zhou , Shuo Yang , Jun Fang , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia

Recent developments in neural architecture search (NAS) emphasize the significance of considering robust architectures against malicious data. However, there is a notable absence of benchmark evaluations and theoretical guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yongtao Wu , Fanghui Liu , Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel , Grigorios G Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Designing neural networks typically relies on manual trial and error or a neural architecture search (NAS) followed by weight training. The former is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the latter often discretizes architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zitong Huang , Mansooreh Montazerin , Ajitesh Srivastava

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

Typically, deep learning architectures are handcrafted for their respective learning problem. As an alternative, neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed where the architecture's structure is learned in an additional optimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Nils Gessert , Alexander Schlaefer