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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

Recently, much attention has been spent on neural architecture search (NAS), aiming to outperform those manually-designed neural architectures on high-level vision recognition tasks. Inspired by the success, here we attempt to leverage NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chengrong Gong , Zongwen Bai , Chunhua Shen

In this work, we employ neural architecture search (NAS) to enhance the efficiency of deploying diverse machine learning (ML) tasks on in-memory computing (IMC) architectures. Initially, we design three fundamental components inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Md Hasibul Amin , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Ramtin Zand

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

To defend deep neural networks from adversarial attacks, adversarial training has been drawing increasing attention for its effectiveness. However, the accuracy and robustness resulting from the adversarial training are limited by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yuwei Ou , Yuqi Feng , Yanan Sun

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search, i.e., DARTS, has drawn great attention in neural architecture search. It tries to find the optimal architecture in a shallow search network and then measures its performance in a deep evaluation network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hongyuan Yu , Houwen Peng , Yan Huang , Jianlong Fu , Hao Du , Liang Wang , Haibin Ling

Recently Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has aroused great interest in both academia and industry, however it remains challenging because of its huge and non-continuous search space. Instead of applying evolutionary algorithm or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xinbang Zhang , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

The covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) is a stochastic search algorithm using a multivariate normal distribution for continuous black-box optimization. In addition to strong empirical results, part of the CMA-ES can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Ryoki Hamano , Shinichi Shirakawa , Masahiro Nomura

This paper introduces NSGA-Net -- an evolutionary approach for neural architecture search (NAS). NSGA-Net is designed with three goals in mind: (1) a procedure considering multiple and conflicting objectives, (2) an efficient procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Vishnu Boddeti , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf

In this paper, we propose Efficient Progressive Neural Architecture Search (EPNAS), a neural architecture search (NAS) that efficiently handles large search space through a novel progressive search policy with performance prediction based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yanqi Zhou , Peng Wang , Sercan Arik , Haonan Yu , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Greg Diamos

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Andrea Massa , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

In many practical optimization problems, the derivatives of the functions to be optimized are unavailable or unreliable. Such optimization problems are solved using derivative-free optimization techniques. One of the state-of-the-art…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Najeeb Khan

Despite the state-of-the-art performance of the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES), high-dimensional black-box optimization problems are challenging tasks. Such problems often involve a property called low effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kento Uchida , Teppei Yamaguchi , Shinichi Shirakawa

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

Fabricating neural models for a wide range of mobile devices demands for a specific design of networks due to highly constrained resources. Both evolution algorithms (EA) and reinforced learning methods (RL) have been dedicated to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Ruijun Xu , Hailong Ma

Designing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for mobile devices is challenging because mobile models need to be small and fast, yet still accurate. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to design and improve mobile CNNs on all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mingxing Tan , Bo Chen , Ruoming Pang , Vijay Vasudevan , Mark Sandler , Andrew Howard , Quoc V. Le

Recent works have demonstrated that deep learning (DL) based compressed sensing (CS) implementation can accelerate Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging by reconstructing MR images from sub-sampled k-space data. However, network architectures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Jiangpeng Yan , Shuo Chen , Yongbing Zhang , Xiu Li

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre