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Efficient identification of people and objects, segmentation of regions of interest and extraction of relevant data in images, texts, audios and videos are evolving considerably in these past years, which deep learning methods, combined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jeovane Honorio Alves , Lucas Ferrari de Oliveira

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in many applications. The architectures of DNNs play a crucial role in their performance, which is usually manually designed with rich expertise. However, such a design process is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen , Kay Chen Tan

In the last decade, most research in Machine Learning contributed to the improvement of existing models, with the aim of increasing the performance of neural networks for the solution of a variety of different tasks. However, such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Niccolò Cavagnero , Luca Robbiano , Barbara Caputo , Giuseppe Averta

This paper introduces NSGA-Net -- an evolutionary approach for neural architecture search (NAS). NSGA-Net is designed with three goals in mind: (1) a procedure considering multiple and conflicting objectives, (2) an efficient procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Vishnu Boddeti , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven successful in image generation tasks. However, GAN training is inherently unstable. Although many works try to stabilize it by manually modifying GAN architecture, it requires much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Guohao Ying , Xin He , Bin Gao , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

Evolutionary computation (EC)-based neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable performance in the automatic design of neural architectures. However, the high computational cost associated with evaluating searched architectures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yangyang Li , Guanlong Liu , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

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

Modern convolutional networks such as ResNet and NASNet have achieved state-of-the-art results in many computer vision applications. These architectures consist of stages, which are sets of layers that operate on representations in the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Artur Jordao , Fernando Akio , Maiko Lie , William Robson Schwartz

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) continues to serve a key roll in the design and development of neural networks for task specific deployment. Modern NAS techniques struggle to deal with ever increasing search space complexity and compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Arjun Sridhar , Yiran Chen

The performance of a deep neural network is heavily dependent on its architecture and various neural architecture search strategies have been developed for automated network architecture design. Recently, evolutionary neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Ran Cheng , Kuangrong Hao

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained widespread attention for its transformative potential in deep learning model design. However, the vast and complex search space of NAS leads to significant computational and time costs. Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingye Zhou , Caiyang Yu , Chenwei Tang

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shahid Siddiqui , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

In this work, we propose a novel evolutionary algorithm for neural architecture search, applicable to global search spaces. The algorithm's architectural representation organizes the topology in multiple hierarchical modules, while the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Aristeidis Christoforidis , George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a collection of methods to craft the way neural networks are built. Current NAS methods are far from ab initio and automatic, as they use manual backbone architectures or micro building blocks (cells),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anubhav Garg , Amit Kumar Saha , Debo Dutta

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) automates neural network design, improving efficiency over manual approaches. However, efficiently discovering high-performance neural network architectures that simultaneously optimize multiple objectives…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , Yong Zhang , Ran Cheng , Kaizhou Gao , Dunwei Gong

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongpeng Zhou , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan