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Deep learning has made breakthroughs and substantial in many fields due to its powerful automatic representation capabilities. It has been proven that neural architecture design is crucial to the feature representation of data and the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

The search space of neural architecture search (NAS) for convolutional neural network (CNN) is huge. To reduce searching cost, most NAS algorithms use fixed outer network level structure, and search the repeatable cell structure only. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Chunnan Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Guosheng Feng , Fei Geng

Automatic neural architecture design has shown its potential in discovering powerful neural network architectures. Existing methods, no matter based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithms (EA), conduct architecture search in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Renqian Luo , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates neural network design by using optimization algorithms to navigate architecture spaces, reducing the burden of manual architecture design. While NAS has achieved success, applying it to emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yisheng Yang , Guodong Du , Chean Khim Toa , Ho-Kin Tang , Sim Kuan Goh

This paper proposes a neural architecture search space using ResNet as a framework, with search objectives including parameters for convolution, pooling, fully connected layers, and connectivity of the residual network. In addition to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shang Wang , Huanrong Tang , Jianquan Ouyang

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

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

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

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

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) is a technique used to automatically design the architecture of a neural network for a specific task and target hardware. However, evaluating the performance of candidate architectures is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Nilotpal Sinha , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Anis Kacem , Peyman Rostami , Carl Shneider , Djamila Aouada

The effort devoted to hand-crafting neural network image classifiers has motivated the use of architecture search to discover them automatically. Although evolutionary algorithms have been repeatedly applied to neural network topologies,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Esteban Real , Alok Aggarwal , Yanping Huang , Quoc V Le

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising method for automatically design neural architectures. NAS adopts a search strategy to explore the predefined search space to find outstanding performance architecture with the minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Chen Wei , Chuang Niu , Yiping Tang , Yue Wang , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

Deep learning methods have become very successful at solving many complex tasks such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, manually designing a neural network for a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Maria Baldeon Calisto , Susana Lai-Yuen

In the recent past, the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has enabled researchers to broadly explore the design space using learning-based methods. Apart from finding better neural network architectures, the idea of automation has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Qing Lu , Weiwen Jiang , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu

Supernet is a core component in many recent Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. It not only helps embody the search space but also provides a (relative) estimation of the final performance of candidate architectures. Thus, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Beichen Zhang , Xiaoxing Wang , Xiaohan Qin , Junchi Yan

We propose a new method for learning the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that is more efficient than recent state-of-the-art methods based on reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms. Our approach uses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Chenxi Liu , Barret Zoph , Maxim Neumann , Jonathon Shlens , Wei Hua , Li-Jia Li , Li Fei-Fei , Alan Yuille , Jonathan Huang , Kevin Murphy

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