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Bio-inspired neural networks are attractive for their adversarial robustness, energy frugality, and closer alignment with cortical physiology, yet they often lag behind back-propagation (BP) based models in accuracy and ability to scale. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Imane Hamzaoui , Riyadh Baghdadi

In modern deep learning research, finding optimal (or near optimal) neural network models is one of major research directions and it is widely studied in many applications. In this paper, the main research trends of neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Youngkee Kim , Won Joon Yun , Youn Kyu Lee , Soyi Jung , Joongheon Kim

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Despite remarkable progress achieved, most neural architecture search (NAS) methods focus on searching for one single accurate and robust architecture. To further build models with better generalization capability and performance, model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Minghao Chen , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Haibin Ling

Weight sharing promises to make neural architecture search (NAS) tractable even on commodity hardware. Existing methods in this space rely on a diverse set of heuristics to design and train the shared-weight backbone network, a.k.a. the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kaicheng Yu , René Ranftl , Mathieu Salzmann

In this paper, we attempt to address the challenge of applying Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms, specifically the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS), to long-tailed datasets where class distribution is highly imbalanced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Chenxia Tang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool to automatically design deep neural networks for many tasks, including image classification. Due to the significant computational burden of the search phase, most NAS methods have focused…

Weight sharing is a fundamental concept in neural architecture search (NAS), enabling gradient-based methods to explore cell-based architectural spaces significantly faster than traditional black-box approaches. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arjun Krishnakumar , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

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

Recent state-of-the-art methods for neural architecture search (NAS) exploit gradient-based optimization by relaxing the problem into continuous optimization over architectures and shared-weights, a noisy process that remains poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Liam Li , Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Previous works on meta-learning either relied on elaborately hand-designed network structures or adopted specialized learning rules to a particular domain. We propose a universal framework to optimize the meta-learning process automatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao shi , Feiyu Xu

Current neural architecture search (NAS) methods are often limited by their predefined, restrictive search spaces. While recent large language model (LLM)-assisted NAS methods enable open-ended search spaces, they often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuiko Sakuma , Masakazu Yoshimura , Marcel Gröpl , Zitang Sun , Junji Otsuka , Atsushi Irie , Takeshi Ohashi

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

There is a growing interest in automated neural architecture search (NAS). To improve the efficiency of NAS, previous approaches adopt weight sharing method to force all models share the same set of weights. However, it has been observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xiang Li , Chen Lin , Chuming Li , Ming Sun , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

The success of deep learning in recent years has lead to a rising demand for neural network architecture engineering. As a consequence, neural architecture search (NAS), which aims at automatically designing neural network architectures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Benedikt Staffler , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada , Frank Hutter

The key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is designing how to explore wisely in the huge search space. We propose a new NAS method called TNAS (NAS with trees), which improves search efficiency by exploring only a small number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guocheng Qian , Xuanyang Zhang , Guohao Li , Chen Zhao , Yukang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Sun

Neural network architectures found by sophistic search algorithms achieve strikingly good test performance, surpassing most human-crafted network models by significant margins. Although computationally efficient, their design is often very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

As deep neural networks achieve unprecedented performance in various tasks, neural architecture search (NAS), a research field for designing neural network architectures with automated processes, is actively underway. More recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Youngkee Kim , Soyi Jung , Minseok Choi , Joongheon Kim

Neural structure search (NAS), as the mainstream approach to automate deep neural architecture design, has achieved much success in recent years. However, the performance estimation component adhering to NAS is often prohibitively costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zixuan Liang , Yanan Sun

Improving the efficiency of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a challenging but significant task that has received much attention. Previous works mainly adopted the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) and improved its search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chongjun Tu , Peng Ye , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Baopu Li , Wanli Ouyang