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The fundamental problem in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to efficiently find high-performing architectures from a given search space. We propose a simple but powerful method which we call FEAR, for ranking architectures in any search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Debadeepta Dey , Shital Shah , Sebastien Bubeck

Recent research has suggested that the brain is more shallow than previously thought, challenging the traditionally assumed hierarchical structure of the ventral visual pathway. Here, we demonstrate that optimizing convolutional network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Lukas Kuhn , Sari Saba-Sadiya , Gemma Roig

In recent years Deep Learning reached significant results in many practical problems, such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition and many others. For many years the main goal of the research was to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alexey Letunovskiy , Vladimir Korviakov , Vladimir Polovnikov , Anastasiia Kargapoltseva , Ivan Mazurenko , Yepan Xiong

It is of great significance to estimate the performance of a given model architecture without training in the application of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as it may take a lot of time to evaluate the performance of an architecture. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kunlong Chen , Liu Yang , Yitian Chen , Kunjin Chen , Yidan Xu , Lujun Li

Many automated machine learning methods, such as those for hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization, are computationally expensive because they involve training many different model configurations. In this work, we present a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Martin Wistuba , Tejaswini Pedapati

Classification performance based on ImageNet is the de-facto standard metric for CNN development. In this work we challenge the notion that CNN architecture design solely based on ImageNet leads to generally effective convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Lukas Tuggener , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Thilo Stadelmann

We study the robustness of data-centric methods to find neural network architectures, known as neural architecture search (NAS), against data poisoning. To audit this robustness, we design a poisoning framework that enables the systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zachary Coalson , Huazheng Wang , Qingyun Wu , Sanghyun Hong

Architectures obtained by Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have achieved highly competitive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the prohibitive computation demand of forward-backward propagation in deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Lang Tang , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian

The growing capacity of neural networks has strongly contributed to their success at complex machine learning tasks and the computational demand of such large models has, in turn, stimulated a significant improvement in the hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mohammed Amer , Tomás Maul , Iman Yi Liao

Common Neural Architecture Search methods generate large amounts of candidate architectures that need training in order to assess their performance and find an optimal architecture. To minimize the search time we use different performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 G. G. H. Franken , P. Singh , J. Vanschoren

Efficient evaluation of a network architecture drawn from a large search space remains a key challenge in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Vanilla NAS evaluates each architecture by training from scratch, which gives the true performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca , Tian Guo

This paper presents our approach to accelerate computer architecture simulation by leveraging machine learning techniques. Traditional computer architecture simulations are time-consuming, making it challenging to explore different design…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Wajid Ali , Ayaz Akram

Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly reduced the number of arithmetic operations and the size of memory storage needed for CNNs, which makes their deployment on mobile and embedded systems more feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Baozhou Zhu , Zaid Al-Ars , Peter Hofstee

In this paper we propose a novel approach to model compression termed Architecture Compression. Instead of operating on the weight or filter space of the network like classical model compression methods, our approach operates on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Anubhav Ashok

Neural networks (NNs) have been successfully deployed in many applications. However, architectural design of these models is still a challenging problem. Moreover, neural networks are known to have a lot of redundancy. This increases the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Shayan Hassantabar , Xiaoliang Dai , Niraj K. Jha

The automation of neural architecture design has been a coveted alternative to human experts. Recent works have small search space, which is easier to optimize but has a limited upper bound of the optimal solution. Extra human design is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yuanzheng Ci , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Boyu Chen , Hongwen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Performance predictors have emerged as a promising method to accelerate the evaluation stage of neural architecture search (NAS). These predictors estimate the performance of unseen architectures by learning from the correlation between a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Han Ji , Yuqi Feng , Jiahao Fan , Yanan Sun

We study an alternative use of machine learning. We train neural nets to provide the parameter estimate of a given (structural) econometric model, for example, discrete choice or consumer search. Training examples consist of datasets…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-02-10 Yanhao , Wei , Zhenling Jiang

Neural architecture search can discover neural networks with good performance, and One-Shot approaches are prevalent. One-Shot approaches typically require a supernet with weight sharing and predictors that predict the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chia-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Shin Han , Yuan-Yao Sung , Yi Lee , Hung-Yueh Chiang , Kai-Chiang Wu

Deep learning networks excel at classification, yet identifying minimal architectures that reliably solve a task remains challenging. We present a computational methodology for systematically exploring and analyzing the relationships among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ziwei Zheng , Huizhi Liang , Vaclav Snasel , Vito Latora , Panos Pardalos , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha