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Predictor-based algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tasks. However, these methods suffer from high computation costs, as training the performance predictor usually requires training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ruochen Wang , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Time-intensive performance evaluations significantly impede progress in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To address this, neural predictors leverage surrogate models trained on proxy datasets, allowing for direct performance predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jindi Lv , Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Qing Ye , Wentao Feng , Jiancheng Lv

Methods for neural network hyperparameter optimization and meta-modeling are computationally expensive due to the need to train a large number of model configurations. In this paper, we show that standard frequentist regression models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Bowen Baker , Otkrist Gupta , Ramesh Raskar , Nikhil Naik

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

Prediction-based approaches are widely used in neural architecture search (NAS), where a predictor estimates the performance of candidate architectures to guide selection. However, existing predictors are typically trained via supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liping Deng , MingQing Xiao

Zero-cost proxies are nowadays frequently studied and used to search for neural architectures. They show an impressive ability to predict the performance of architectures by making use of their untrained weights. These techniques allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jovita Lukasik , Michael Moeller , Margret Keuper

Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural architecture search has proven to be a powerful approach to designing and refining neural networks, often boosting their performance and efficiency over manually-designed variations, but comes with computational overhead. While there…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Vasco Lopes , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

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 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

Predictor-based methods have substantially enhanced Neural Architecture Search (NAS) optimization. The efficacy of these predictors is largely influenced by the method of encoding neural network architectures. While traditional encodings…

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

Understanding and modelling the performance of neural architectures is key to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Performance predictors have seen widespread use in low-cost NAS and achieve high ranking correlations between predicted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Fred X. Han , Keith G. Mills , Fabian Chudak , Parsa Riahi , Mohammad Salameh , Jialin Zhang , Wei Lu , Shangling Jui , Di Niu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising and rapidly evolving research area. Training a large number of neural networks requires an exceptional amount of computational power, which makes NAS unreachable for those researchers who have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nikita Klyuchnikov , Ilya Trofimov , Ekaterina Artemova , Mikhail Salnikov , Maxim Fedorov , Evgeny Burnaev

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

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

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) has shown excellent results in designing architectures for computer vision problems. NAS alleviates the need for human-defined settings by automating architecture design and engineering. However, NAS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

Deep learning has made breakthroughs and substantial in many fields due to its powerful automatic representation capabilities. It has been proven that neural architecture design is crucial to the feature representation of data and the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Finding a well-performing architecture is often tedious for both DL practitioners and researchers, leading to tremendous interest in the automation of this task by means of neural architecture search (NAS). Although the community has made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Marius Lindauer , Frank Hutter