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Automated neural network design has received ever-increasing attention with the evolution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially involving their deployment on embedded and mobile platforms. One of the biggest problems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler , Zhiquan Feng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides state-of-the-art results when trained on well-curated datasets with annotated labels. However, annotating data or even having balanced number of samples can be a luxury for practitioners from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aleksandr Timofeev , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Search space design is very critical to neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms. We propose a fine-grained search space comprised of atomic blocks, a minimal search unit that is much smaller than the ones used in recent NAS algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jieru Mei , Yingwei Li , Xiaochen Lian , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Alan Yuille , Jianchao Yang

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

While neural architecture search (NAS) has enabled automated machine learning (AutoML) for well-researched areas, its application to tasks beyond computer vision is still under-explored. As less-studied domains are precisely those where we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Junhong Shen , Mikhail Khodak , Ameet Talwalkar

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abhishek Singh , Anubhav Garg , Jinan Zhou , Shiv Ram Dubey , Debo Dutta

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become the de fecto tools in the industry in automating the design of deep neural networks for various applications, especially those driven by mobile and edge devices with limited computing resources.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ruiyang Qin , Yuting Hu , Zheyu Yan , Jinjun Xiong , Ahmed Abbasi , Yiyu Shi

If NAS methods are solutions, what is the problem? Most existing NAS methods require two-stage parameter optimization. However, performance of the same architecture in the two stages correlates poorly. In this work, we propose a new problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shoukang Hu , Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Jianping Shi , Xunying Liu , Dahua Lin

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an approach for automatically designing a neural network architecture without human effort or expert knowledge. However, the high computational cost of NAS limits its use in commercial applications. Two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Rei Sato , Jun Sakuma , Youhei Akimoto

We propose to incorporate neural architecture search (NAS) into general-purpose multi-task learning (GP-MTL). Existing NAS methods typically define different search spaces according to different tasks. In order to adapt to different task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yuan Gao , Haoping Bai , Zequn Jie , Jiayi Ma , Kui Jia , Wei Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong

Differential Neural Architecture Search (NAS) requires all layer choices to be held in memory simultaneously; this limits the size of both search space and final architecture. In contrast, Probabilistic NAS, such as PARSEC, learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Zhicheng Yan , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Bichen Wu , Matt Feiszli

Multiplication is arguably the most cost-dominant operation in modern deep neural networks (DNNs), limiting their achievable efficiency and thus more extensive deployment in resource-constrained applications. To tackle this limitation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Huihong Shi , Haoran You , Yang Zhao , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

Deformable Attention Transformers (DAT) have shown remarkable performance in computer vision tasks by adaptively focusing on informative image regions. However, their data-dependent sampling mechanism introduces irregular memory access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wendong Mao , Mingfan Zhao , Jianfeng Guan , Qiwei Dong , Zhongfeng Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Liam Li , Ameet Talwalkar

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have made significant improvements to reach the desired accuracy to be employed in a wide variety of Machine Learning (ML) applications. Recently the Google Brain's team demonstrated the ability of Capsule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Alberto Marchisio , Andrea Massa , Vojtech Mrazek , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) framework, namely HSCoNAS, to automate the design of deep neural networks (DNNs) with high accuracy but low latency upon target hardware. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Xiangzhong Luo , Di Liu , Shuo Huai , Weichen Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved breakthrough success in a great number of applications in the past few years. It could be time to take a step back and analyze the good and bad aspects in the field of NAS. A variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

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