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Neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed for the automatic creation of new and effective neural network architectures, offering an alternative to the laborious process of manually designing complex architectures. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Aaron Serianni , Jugal Kalita

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained immense popularity owing to its ability to automate neural architecture design. A number of training-free metrics are recently proposed to realize NAS without training, hence making NAS more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yao Shu , Zhongxiang Dai , Zhaoxuan Wu , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

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

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has attracted extensive attention due to its efficiency in searching for cell structures. DARTS mainly focuses on the operation search and derives the cell topology from the operation weights.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yu-Chao Gu , Li-Juan Wang , Yun Liu , Yi Yang , Yu-Huan Wu , Shao-Ping Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Lin , Pichao Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

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

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search is one of the most popular Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods for its search efficiency and simplicity, accomplished by jointly optimizing the model weight and architecture parameters in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiangning Chen , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is a simple yet efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method. During the search stage, DARTS trains a supernet by jointly optimizing architecture parameters and network parameters. During the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is quickly becoming the standard methodology to design neural network models. However, NAS is typically compute-intensive because multiple models need to be evaluated before choosing the best one. To reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Abhinav Mehrotra , Łukasz Dudziak , Nicholas D. Lane

Despite its high search efficiency, differential architecture search (DARTS) often selects network architectures with dominated skip connections which lead to performance degradation. However, theoretical understandings on this issue remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Steven C. H. Hoi

Adversarial robustness of deep learning models has gained much traction in the last few years. Various attacks and defenses are proposed to improve the adversarial robustness of modern-day deep learning architectures. While all these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Chaitanya Devaguptapu , Devansh Agarwal , Gaurav Mittal , Pulkit Gopalani , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

In this paper, we point out that differential architecture search (DARTS) makes gradient of architecture parameters biased for network weights and architecture parameters are updated in different datasets alternatively in the bi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Conducting efficient performance estimations of neural architectures is a major challenge in neural architecture search (NAS). To reduce the architecture training costs in NAS, one-shot estimators (OSEs) amortize the architecture training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Zixuan Zhou , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has driven innovations and created new opportunities across various sectors. However, leveraging domain-specific knowledge often requires automated tools to design and configure models effectively. In the case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

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

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is a promising end to end NAS method which directly optimizes the architecture parameters through general gradient descent. However, DARTS is brittle to the catastrophic failure incurred by the…

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

Existing neural architecture search (NAS) methods often return an architecture with good search performance but generalizes poorly to the test setting. To achieve better generalization, we propose a novel neighborhood-aware NAS formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xiaofang Wang , Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , Kris M. Kitani

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained significant traction in automating the design of neural networks. To reduce search time, differentiable architecture search (DAS) reframes the traditional paradigm of discrete candidate sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoyun Liu , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuqing Zhao , Penghui Ruan