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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

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linnan Wang , Saining Xie , Teng Li , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) employs evolutionary algorithms to find high-performing neural architectures automatically, and has achieved great success. However, compared to the empirical success, its rigorous theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Yanan Sun

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a favoured method for unearthing effective neural architectures. Recent development of large models has intensified the demand for faster search speeds and more accurate search results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Wang Qinsi , Ke Jinghan , Liang Zhi , Zhang Sihai

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an important yet challenging task in network design due to its high computational consumption. To address this issue, we propose the Reinforced Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (RE- NAS), which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yukang Chen , Gaofeng Meng , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chang Huang , Lisen Mu , Xinggang Wang

This paper proposes Binary ArchitecTure Search (BATS), a framework that drastically reduces the accuracy gap between binary neural networks and their real-valued counterparts by means of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). We show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically excavate the optimal network architecture with superior test performance. Recent neural architecture search (NAS) approaches rely on validation loss or accuracy to find the superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Joonhyun Jeong , Joonsang Yu , Geondo Park , Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo

One of the key steps in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to estimate the performance of candidate architectures. Existing methods either directly use the validation performance or learn a predictor to estimate the performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Minli Li , Wei Zeng , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Vasco Lopes , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

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

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

Different from other deep scalable architecture-based NAS approaches, Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) proposes a broad scalable architecture which consists of convolution and enhancement blocks, dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , C. L. Philip Chen

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has received massive attention in recent years, mainly because it significantly reduces the computational cost through weight sharing and continuous relaxation. However, more recent works find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Miao Zhang , Jilin Hu , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Bin Yang , Gholamreza Haffari

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) is a key part of evolutionary machine learning, which commonly utilizes evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to automatically design high-performing deep neural architectures. During past years,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Yun Liu , Jiahao Fan , Yanan Sun

A myriad of recent breakthroughs in hand-crafted neural architectures for visual recognition have highlighted the urgent need to explore hybrid architectures consisting of diversified building blocks. Meanwhile, neural architecture search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Changlin Li , Tao Tang , Guangrun Wang , Jiefeng Peng , Bing Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang