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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) continue to achieve great success in classification tasks as innovative techniques and complex multi-path architecture topologies are introduced. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Trevor Londt , Xiaoying Gao , Peter Andreae , Yi Mei

We propose a novel strategy for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) based on Bregman iterations. Starting from a sparse neural network our gradient-based one-shot algorithm gradually adds relevant parameters in an inverse scale space manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Leon Bungert , Tim Roith , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger

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

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in automatically designing scalable network architectures for dense image predictions. However, existing NAS algorithms usually compromise on restricted search space and search on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiong Zhang , Hongmin Xu , Hong Mo , Jianchao Tan , Cheng Yang , Lei Wang , Wenqi Ren

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) often trains and evaluates a large number of architectures. Recent predictor-based NAS approaches attempt to alleviate such heavy computation costs with two key steps: sampling some architecture-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junru Wu , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Ye Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Mei Chen , Lu Yuan

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have traditionally been explored by human experts in a manual search process that is time-consuming and ineffectively explores the massive space of potential solutions. Neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Gerard Jacques van Wyk , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown excellent results in designing architectures for computer vision problems. NAS alleviates the need for human-defined settings by automating architecture design and engineering. However, NAS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abhishek Singh , Anubhav Garg , Jinan Zhou , Shiv Ram Dubey , Debo Dutta

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

The emergence of neural architecture search (NAS) has greatly advanced the research on network design. Recent proposals such as gradient-based methods or one-shot approaches significantly boost the efficiency of NAS. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Yizhou Zhou , Xiaoyan Sun , Chong Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha , Wenjun Zeng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is challenged by the trade-off between search space exploration and efficiency, especially for complex tasks. While recent LLM-based NAS methods have shown promise, they often suffer from static search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Fei Kong , Xiaohan Shan , Yanwei Hu , Jianmin Li

Existing Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods either encode neural architectures using discrete encodings that do not scale well, or adopt supervised learning-based methods to jointly learn architecture representations and optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shen Yan , Yu Zheng , Wei Ao , Xiao Zeng , Mi Zhang

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

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a challenging problem. Hierarchical search spaces allow for cheap evaluations of neural network sub modules to serve as surrogate for architecture evaluations. Yet, sometimes the hierarchy is too…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Simon Neumeyer , Julian Stier , Michael Granitzer

Differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) is known for its capacity in the automatic generation of superior neural networks. However, DNAS based methods suffer from memory usage explosion when the search space expands, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zheyu Yan , Weiwen Jiang , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) emerged as a way to automatically optimize neural networks for a specific task and dataset. Despite an abundance of research on NAS for images and natural language applications, similar studies for time…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-12-05 Denis Levchenko , Efstratios Rappos , Shabnam Ataee , Biagio Nigro , Stephan Robert-Nicoud

3D face alignment is a very challenging and fundamental problem in computer vision. Existing deep learning-based methods manually design different networks to regress either parameters of a 3D face model or 3D positions of face vertices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhichao Jiang , Hongsong Wang , Xi Teng , Baopu Li