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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

Early neural network architectures were designed by so-called "grad student descent". Since then, the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has developed with the goal of algorithmically designing architectures tailored for a dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sam Green , Craig M. Vineyard , Ryan Helinski , Çetin Kaya Koç

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great promise in designing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models that are both accurate and efficient. Recently, two-stage NAS, e.g. BigNAS, decouples the model training and searching process and achieves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Chengyue Gong , Vikas Chandra

As progress is made on training machine learning models on incrementally expanding classification tasks (i.e., incremental learning), a next step is to translate this progress to industry expectations. One technique missing from incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 James Seale Smith , Zachary Seymour , Han-Pang Chiu

Accurate classification of medical images is essential for modern diagnostics. Deep learning advancements led clinicians to increasingly use sophisticated models to make faster and more accurate decisions, sometimes replacing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lunchen Xie , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Gambella , Danilo Ardagna , Manuel Roveri , Matteo Matteucci , Qingjiang Shi

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

Automatic methods for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have been shown to produce state-of-the-art network models. Yet, their main drawback is the computational complexity of the search process. As some primal methods optimized over a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Asaf Noy , Niv Nayman , Tal Ridnik , Nadav Zamir , Sivan Doveh , Itamar Friedman , Raja Giryes , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a pivotal technique in automated machine learning. Evolutionary Algorithm (EA)-based methods demonstrate superior search quality but suffer from prohibitive computational costs, while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingbang Du , Enzhi Zhang , Rui Zhong , Yang Cao , Masaharu Munetomo

Neural architecture search (NAS) typically consists of three main steps: training a super-network, training and evaluating sampled deep neural networks (DNNs), and training the discovered DNN. Most of the existing efforts speed up some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tien-Ju Yang , Yi-Lun Liao , Vivienne Sze

Integrating the principles of approximate computing into the design of hardware-aware deep neural networks (DNN) has led to DNNs implementations showing good output quality and highly optimized hardware parameters such as low latency or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Michal Pinos , Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

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

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,…

High sensitivity of neural architecture search (NAS) methods against their input such as step-size (i.e., learning rate) and search space prevents practitioners from applying them out-of-the-box to their own problems, albeit its purpose is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Youhei Akimoto , Shinichi Shirakawa , Nozomu Yoshinari , Kento Uchida , Shota Saito , Kouhei Nishida

Efficient performance estimation of architectures drawn from large search spaces is essential to Neural Architecture Search. One-Shot methods tackle this challenge by training one supernet to approximate the performance of every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shoukang Hu , Ruochen Wang , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jiashi Feng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an exciting new field which promises to be as much as a game-changer as Convolutional Neural Networks were in 2012. Despite many great works leading to substantial improvements on a variety of tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Antoine Yang , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

The significant computational cost of multiplications hinders the deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices. While multiplication-free models offer enhanced hardware efficiency, they typically sacrifice accuracy. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yang Xu , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

Designing domain specific neural networks is a time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive task. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) exists to simplify domain-specific model development but there is a gap in the literature for time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tobias King , Yexu Zhou , Tobias Röddiger , Michael Beigl

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely adopted to design neural networks for various computer vision tasks. One of its most promising subdomains is differentiable NAS (DNAS), where the optimal architecture is found in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Konstanty Subbotko , Wojciech Jablonski , Piotr Bilinski

AI technology has made remarkable achievements in computational pathology (CPath), especially with the help of deep neural networks. However, the network performance is highly related to architecture design, which commonly requires human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sheyang Tang , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Lina Chen , Sonal Varma , Corwyn Rowsell , Savvas Damaskinos , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Zhou Wang