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The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based neural architecture search (NAS) generally guarantees better convergence yet suffers from the requirement of huge computational resources compared with gradient-based approaches, due to the rollout…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jihao Liu , Ming Zhang , Yangting Sun , Boxiao Liu , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

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

We present new Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) cells for image classification using a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach called DARTS. We are interested in the ReNet architecture, which is a RNN based approach presented as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Brian Moser , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Typically, deep learning architectures are handcrafted for their respective learning problem. As an alternative, neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed where the architecture's structure is learned in an additional optimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Nils Gessert , Alexander Schlaefer

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

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have attracted much attention and outperformed manually designed architectures on a few high-level vision tasks. In this paper, we propose HiNAS (Hierarchical NAS), an effort towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Haokui Zhang , Ying Li , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

We present BN-NAS, neural architecture search with Batch Normalization (BN-NAS), to accelerate neural architecture search (NAS). BN-NAS can significantly reduce the time required by model training and evaluation in NAS. Specifically, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Baopu Li , Chen Lin , Chuming Li , Ming Sun , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Transferable neural architecture search (TNAS) has been introduced to design efficient neural architectures for multiple tasks, to enhance the practical applicability of NAS in real-world scenarios. In TNAS, architectural knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xun Zhou , Xingyu Wu , Liang Feng , Zhichao Lu , Kay Chen Tan

Neural networks for image recognition have evolved through extensive manual design from simple chain-like models to structures with multiple wiring paths. The success of ResNets and DenseNets is due in large part to their innovative wiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Saining Xie , Alexander Kirillov , Ross Girshick , Kaiming He

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design process of high-performing architectures, but remains bottlenecked by expensive performance evaluation. Most existing studies that achieve faster evaluation are mostly tied to cell-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shiwen Qin , Alexander Auras , Shay B. Cohen , Elliot J. Crowley , Michael Moeller , Linus Ericsson , Jovita Lukasik

Deep Neural networks are efficient and flexible models that perform well for a variety of tasks such as image, speech recognition and natural language understanding. In particular, convolutional neural networks (CNN) generate a keen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yesmina Jaafra , Jean Luc Laurent , Aline Deruyver , Mohamed Saber Naceur

Neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms save tremendous labor from human experts. Recent advancements further reduce the computational overhead to an affordable level. However, it is still cumbersome to deploy the NAS techniques in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zhuowei Li , Yibo Gao , Zhenzhou Zha , Zhiqiang HU , Qing Xia , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The standard paradigm in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to search for a fully deterministic architecture with specific operations and connections. In this work, we instead propose to search for the optimal operation distribution, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingchen Wan , Binxin Ru , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great success in the automatic design of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the best way to use data to search network architectures is still unclear and under exploration. Previous work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zhen Dong , Kaicheng Zhou , Guohao Li , Qiang Zhou , Mingfei Guo , Bernard Ghanem , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the discovery of neural networks that meet specified criteria, yet its evaluation procedures are often hardcoded, limiting the ability to introduce new metrics. This issue is especially pronounced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Atah Nuh Mih , Jianzhou Wang , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Hung Cao

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been regarded as a capable class of models for visual recognition problems. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to develop generic and powerful network architectures, which requires significant efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Yiheng Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attentions in both academia and industry. In the early age, researchers mostly applied individual search methods which sample and evaluate the candidate architectures separately and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Kaifeng Bi , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Zhengsu Chen , Lanfei Wang , An Xiao , Jianlong Chang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian

Neural architecture search has attracted wide attentions in both academia and industry. To accelerate it, researchers proposed weight-sharing methods which first train a super-network to reuse computation among different operators, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Qi Tian