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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) can have a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing optimal neural network architectures for various tasks. A variant, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Rongrong Ji

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

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to facilitate the design of deep networks for new tasks. Existing techniques rely on two stages: searching over the architecture space and validating the best architecture. NAS algorithms are currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Kaicheng Yu , Christian Sciuto , Martin Jaggi , Claudiu Musat , Mathieu Salzmann

DARTS is a popular algorithm for neural architecture search (NAS). Despite its great advantage in search efficiency, DARTS often suffers weak stability, which reflects in the large variation among individual trials as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Kaifeng Bi , Changping Hu , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely studied for designing discriminative deep learning models such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. As a large number of priors have been obtained through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jie An , Haoyi Xiong , Jinwen Ma , Jiebo Luo , Jun Huan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a key tool in identifying optimal configurations of deep neural networks tailored to specific tasks. However, training and assessing numerous architectures introduces considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haoming Zhang , Ran Cheng

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promising results discovering models that are both accurate and fast. For NAS, training a one-shot model has become a popular strategy to rank the relative quality of different architectures (child…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jiahui Yu , Pengchong Jin , Hanxiao Liu , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Mingxing Tan , Thomas Huang , Xiaodan Song , Ruoming Pang , Quoc Le

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained increasing attention in the community of architecture design. One of the key factors behind the success lies in the training efficiency created by the weight sharing (WS) technique. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Shuaicheng Niu , Jiaxiang Wu , Yifan Zhang , Yong Guo , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

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

Weight-sharing supernets are crucial for performance estimation in cutting-edge neural architecture search (NAS) frameworks. Despite their ability to generate diverse subnetworks without retraining, the quality of these subnetworks is not…

Time-intensive performance evaluations significantly impede progress in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To address this, neural predictors leverage surrogate models trained on proxy datasets, allowing for direct performance predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jindi Lv , Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Qing Ye , Wentao Feng , Jiancheng Lv

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

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 paper, we propose a Shapley value based method to evaluate operation contribution (Shapley-NAS) for neural architecture search. Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) acquires the optimal architectures by optimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Han Xiao , Ziwei Wang , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

This paper aims at enlarging the problem of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) from Single-Path and Multi-Path Search to automated Mixed-Path Search. In particular, we model the NAS problem as a sparse supernet using a new continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yan Wu , Aoming Liu , Zhiwu Huang , Siwei Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing network architectures by machines, is hoped and expected to bring about a new revolution in machine learning. Despite these high expectation, the effectiveness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Changlin Li , Jiefeng Peng , Liuchun Yuan , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin , Xiaojun Chang