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We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained enormous popularity in the field of artificial intelligence due to their low power consumption. However, the majority of SNN methods directly inherit the structure of Artificial Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilei Man , Linhai Xie , Shushan Qiao , Yumei Zhou , Delong Shang

Neural architecture search (NAS), an important branch of automatic machine learning, has become an effective approach to automate the design of deep learning models. However, the major issue in NAS is how to reduce the large search time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jae-hun Shim , Kyeongbo Kong , Suk-Ju Kang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has brought significant progress in recent image recognition tasks. Most existing NAS methods apply restricted search spaces, which limits the upper-bound performance of searched models. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Lujun Li , Menglong Lu , Xin Niu , Peijie Dong , Dongsheng Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) relies heavily on labeled data, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming to obtain. In this paper, we propose a novel NAS method based on an unsupervised paradigm, specifically Masked Autoencoders (MAE),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yiming Hu , Xiangxiang Chu , Yong Wang

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) provides a baseline for searching effective network architectures based gradient, but it is accompanied by huge computational overhead in searching and training network architecture. Recently, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zhaowen Wang , Wei Zhang , Zhiming Wang

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) substantially improves the search efficiency by training one supernet to estimate the performance of every possible child architecture (i.e., subnet). However, the inconsistency of characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xin He , Jiangchao Yao , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Ka Chu Cheung , Simon See , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is quickly becoming the go-to approach to optimize the structure of Deep Learning (DL) models for complex tasks such as Image Classification or Object Detection. However, many other relevant applications of…

Gradient-based one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) has significantly reduced the cost of exploring architectural spaces with discrete design choices, such as selecting operations within a model. However, the field faces two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Abhash Kumar Jha , Shakiba Moradian , Arjun Krishnakumar , Martin Rapp , Frank Hutter

To deploy deep learning algorithms on resource-limited scenarios, an emerging device-resistive random access memory (ReRAM) has been regarded as promising via analog computing. However, the practicability of ReRAM is primarily limited due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Nanyang Ye , Jingbiao Mei , Zhicheng Fang , Yuwen Zhang , Ziqing Zhang , Huaying Wu , Xiaoyao Liang

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become an essential tool for designing effective and efficient neural networks. In this paper, we investigate the geometric properties of neural architecture spaces commonly used in differentiable NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Matteo Gambella , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown encouraging results in automating the architecture design. Recently, DARTS relaxes the search process with a differentiable formulation that leverages weight-sharing and SGD where all candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Weijun Hong , Guilin Li , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Yunhe Wang , Zhenguo Li , Yong Yu

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a critical enabler of emotion-aware communication in human-computer interactions. Recent advancements in Deep Learning (DL) have substantially enhanced the performance of SER models through increased…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Thejan Rajapakshe , Rajib Rana , Sara Khalifa , Berrak Sisman , Björn Schuller

Neural architecture search (NAS) remains a challenging problem, which is attributed to the indispensable and time-consuming component of performance estimation (PE). In this paper, we provide a novel yet systematic rethinking of PE in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Qiang Wang , Qixiang Ye , Zhenguo Li , Yonghong Tian , Qi Tian

Weight sharing is a popular approach to reduce the cost of neural architecture search (NAS) by reusing the weights of shared operators from previously trained child models. However, the rank correlation between the estimated accuracy and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Jin Xu , Xu Tan , Kaitao Song , Renqian Luo , Yichong Leng , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Li

This paper proposes a novel cell-based neural architecture search algorithm (NAS), which completely alleviates the expensive costs of data labeling inherited from supervised learning. Our algorithm capitalizes on the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nam Nguyen , J. Morris Chang

The usefulness and value of Multi-step Machine Learning (ML), where a task is organized into connected sub-tasks with known intermediate inference goals, as opposed to a single large model learned end-to-end without intermediate sub-tasks,…

Neural architecture search (NAS) has seen a steep rise in interest over the last few years. Many algorithms for NAS consist of searching through a space of architectures by iteratively choosing an architecture, evaluating its performance by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Colin White , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani