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Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a pivotal technique in automated machine learning. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA)-based methods demonstrate superior search quality but suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingbang Du , Enzhi Zhang , Rui Zhong , Yang Cao , Masaharu Munetomo

Task-agnostic pre-training followed by task-specific fine-tuning is a default approach to train NLU models. Such models need to be deployed on devices across the cloud and the edge with varying resource and accuracy constraints. For a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Vinod Ganesan , Gowtham Ramesh , Pratyush Kumar

Training-free Neural Architecture Search (NAS) efficiently identifies high-performing neural networks using zero-cost (ZC) proxies. Unlike multi-shot and one-shot NAS approaches, ZC-NAS is both (i) time-efficient, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sofia Casarin , Sergio Escalera , Oswald Lanz

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a critical enabler of emotion-aware communication in human-computer interactions. Recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL) have substantially enhanced the performance of SER models through increased…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Thejan Rajapakshe , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Berrak Sisman , Björn Schuller

Automatic methods for generating state-of-the-art neural network architectures without human experts have generated significant attention recently. This is because of the potential to remove human experts from the design loop which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 George Adam , Jonathan Lorraine

The recent progress in neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed scaling the automated design of neural architectures to real-world domains, such as object detection and semantic segmentation. However, one prerequisite for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Thomas Elsken , Benedikt Staffler , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) uses a continuous relaxation of network representation and dramatically accelerates Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by almost thousands of times in GPU-day. However, the searching process of DARTS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Huiqun Wang , Ruijie Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) system development is data and computation intensive. The optimal design of deep neural networks (DNNs) for these systems often require expert knowledge and empirical evaluation. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Shoukang Hu , Xurong Xie , Mingyu Cui , Jiajun Deng , Shansong Liu , Jianwei Yu , Mengzhe Geng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been used recently to achieve improved performance in various tasks and most prominently in image classification. Yet, current search strategies rely on large labeled datasets, which limit their usage in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sapir Kaplan , Raja Giryes

Designing neural architectures requires immense manual efforts. This has promoted the development of neural architecture search (NAS) to automate the design. While previous NAS methods achieve promising results but run slowly, zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yu Shen , Yang Li , Jian Zheng , Wentao Zhang , Peng Yao , Jixiang Li , Sen Yang , Ji Liu , Bin Cui

Early neural network architectures were designed by so-called "grad student descent". Since then, the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has developed with the goal of algorithmically designing architectures tailored for a dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sam Green , Craig M. Vineyard , Ryan Helinski , Çetin Kaya Koç

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) methods co-train billions of architectures in a supernet and estimate their potential accuracy using the network weights detached from the supernet. However, the ranking correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiefeng Peng , Jiqi Zhang , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Differential Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods represent the network architecture as a repetitive proxy directed acyclic graph (DAG) and optimize the network weights and architecture weights alternatively in a differential manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Benteng Ma , Jing Zhang , Yong Xia , Dacheng Tao

This paper proposes a novel cell-based neural architecture search algorithm (NAS), which completely alleviates the expensive costs of data labeling inherited from supervised learning. Our algorithm capitalizes on the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nam Nguyen , J. Morris Chang

In this paper, we investigate a new variant of neural architecture search (NAS) paradigm -- searching with random labels (RLNAS). The task sounds counter-intuitive for most existing NAS algorithms since random label provides few information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Xuanyang Zhang , Pengfei Hou , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) has a great impact by automatically designing effective neural network architectures. However, the prohibitive computational demand of conventional NAS algorithms (e.g. $10^4$ GPU hours) makes it difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Han Cai , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis

In object detection, the detection backbone consumes more than half of the overall inference cost. Recent researches attempt to reduce this cost by optimizing the backbone architecture with the help of Neural Architecture Search (NAS).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhenhong Sun , Ming Lin , Xiuyu Sun , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Rong Jin

DARTS search space (DSS) has become a canonical benchmark for NAS whereas some emerging works pointed out the issue of narrow accuracy range and claimed it would hurt the method ranking. We observe some recent studies already suffer from…

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