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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

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

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DARTS) is becoming more and more popular among Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods because of its high search efficiency and low compute cost. However, the stability of DARTS is very inferior,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an effective continuous relaxation-based network architecture search (NAS) method with low search cost. It has attracted significant attentions in Auto-ML research and becomes one of the most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jun-Wei Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang , Ping-Yang Chen , Santanu Santra , Cheng-Han Chou , Chih-Sheng Huang

With the rapid development of neural architecture search (NAS), researchers found powerful network architectures for a wide range of vision tasks. However, it remains unclear if the searched architecture can transfer across different types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has now become one of the mainstream paradigms of neural architecture search. However, it largely suffers from the well-known performance collapse issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang

\textit{Differentiable ARchiTecture Search} (DARTS) has recently become the mainstream of neural architecture search (NAS) due to its efficiency and simplicity. With a gradient-based bi-level optimization, DARTS alternately optimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miao Zhang , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Reza Haffari

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method but suffers from robustness, generalization, and discrepancy issues. Many efforts have been made towards the performance collapse issue…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yanlin Zhou , Mostafa El-Khamy , Kee-Bong Song

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has emerged as a promising technique for effective neural architecture search, and it mainly contains two steps to find the high-performance architecture: First, the DARTS supernet that consists of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Le Yang , Ziwei Zheng , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Fan Li

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

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is an effective method for data-driven neural network design based on solving a bilevel optimization problem. Despite its success in many architecture search tasks, there are still some concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Fanghui Xue , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an automated technique to design optimal neural network architectures for a specific workload. Conventionally, evaluating candidate networks in NAS involves extensive training, which requires significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tomomasa Yamasaki , Zhehui Wang , Tao Luo , Niangjun Chen , Bo Wang

Among existing Neural Architecture Search methods, DARTS is known for its efficiency and simplicity. This approach applies continuous relaxation of network representation to construct a weight-sharing supernet and enables the identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hongyi He , Longjun Liu , Haonan Zhang , Nanning Zheng

Neural architecture search (NAS) provides a systematic framework for automating the design of neural network architectures, yet its widespread adoption is hindered by prohibitive computational requirements. Existing zero-cost proxy methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

Network architecture search (NAS), in particular the differentiable architecture search (DARTS) method, has shown a great power to learn excellent model architectures on the specific dataset of interest. In contrast to using a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Xuhong Ren , Jianlang Chen , Felix Juefei-Xu , Wanli Xue , Qing Guo , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao , Shengyong Chen

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) provided a fast solution in finding effective network architectures, but suffered from large memory and computing overheads in jointly training a super-network and searching for an optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Yuhui Xu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Guo-Jun Qi , Qi Tian , Hongkai Xiong

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) yields highly efficient gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) by relaxing the discrete operation selection to optimize continuous architecture parameters that maps NAS from the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiuling Zhang , Zhiming Ding

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) marks a milestone in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), boasting simplicity and small search costs. However, DARTS still suffers from frequent performance collapse, which happens when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin , Yukang Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained attraction due to superior classification performance. Differential Architecture Search (DARTS) is a computationally light method. To limit computational resources DARTS makes numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Muhammad Suhaib Tanveer , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Chong-Min Kyung