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The key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is designing how to explore wisely in the huge search space. We propose a new NAS method called TNAS (NAS with trees), which improves search efficiency by exploring only a small number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guocheng Qian , Xuanyang Zhang , Guohao Li , Chen Zhao , Yukang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Evolutionary computation (EC)-based neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable performance in the automatic design of neural architectures. However, the high computational cost associated with evaluating searched architectures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yangyang Li , Guanlong Liu , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shahid Siddiqui , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongpeng Zhou , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Caiyang Yu , Xianggen Liu , Yifan Wang , Yun Liu , Wentao Feng , Deng Xiong , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters - population size, mutation rate, cloning rate, and number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William J. Teahan

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai

In this paper, we propose Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) where we elaborately design broad scalable architecture dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural Network (BCNN) to solve the above issue. On one hand, the proposed broad scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , Zhiquan Sun , C. L. Philip Chen

Bilinear Matrix Inequalities (BMIs) are fundamental to control system design but are notoriously difficult to solve due to their nonconvexity. This study addresses BMI-based control optimization problems by adapting and integrating advanced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Syue-Cian Lin , Wei-Yu Chiu , Chien-Feng Wu

The effectiveness of Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) is influenced by the design of the search space. Nevertheless, common methods including the global search space, scalable search space and hierarchical search space have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Juan Zou , Han Chu , Yizhang Xia , Junwen Xu , Yuan Liu , Zhanglu Hou

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hot topic in the field of automated machine learning and outperforms humans in designing neural architectures on quite a few machine learning tasks. Motivated by the natural representation form of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Xuan Wu , Linhan Jia , Xiuyi Zhang , Liang Chen , Yanchun Liang , You Zhou , Chunguo Wu

The Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) is a popular method to deal with nonconvex and/or stochastic optimization problems when the gradient information is not available. Being based on the CMA-ES, the recently proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Ilya Loshchilov , Tobias Glasmachers , Hans-Georg Beyer

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

The covariance matrix adaptive evolution strategy (CMA-ES) has been widely used in the field of 2D/3D registration in recent years. This optimization method exhibits exceptional robustness and usability for complex surgical scenarios.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Zhirun Zhang , Minheng Chen

In recent years, the CNN architectures designed by evolution algorithms have proven to be competitive with handcrafted architectures designed by experts. However, these algorithms need a lot of computational power, which is beyond the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Ousmane Youme , Jean Marie Dembele , Eugene C. Ezin , Christophe Cambier

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Restart strategy helps the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) to increase the probability of finding the global optimum in optimization, while a single run CMA-ES is easy to be trapped in local optima. In this paper,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yang Lou , Shiu Yin Yuen , Guanrong Chen , Xin Zhang