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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…

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Neural architecture search (NAS) has recently been addressed from various directions, including discrete, sampling-based methods and efficient differentiable approaches. While the former are notoriously expensive, the latter suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Margret Keuper

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been shown to outperform hand-designed models and help to democratize AI. However, NAS methods often start from scratch with each new task, making them computationally expensive and limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search is one of the most popular Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods for its search efficiency and simplicity, accomplished by jointly optimizing the model weight and architecture parameters in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiangning Chen , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

Recent advances on Out-of-Distribution (OoD) generalization reveal the robustness of deep learning models against distribution shifts. However, existing works focus on OoD algorithms, such as invariant risk minimization, domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Haoyue Bai , Fengwei Zhou , Lanqing Hong , Nanyang Ye , S. -H. Gary Chan , Zhenguo Li

Building a surrogate model of an objective function has shown to be effective to assist evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to solve real-world complex optimisation problems which involve either computationally expensive numerical simulations or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xiaoran Ruan , Ke Li , Bilel Derbel , Arnaud Liefooghe

Evolutionary computation-based neural architecture search (ENAS) is a popular technique for automating architecture design of deep neural networks. Despite its groundbreaking applications, there is no theoretical study for ENAS. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Gary G. Yen , Yanan Sun

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

Choosing the right system architecture for the problem at hand is challenging due to the large design space and high uncertainty in the early stage of the design process. Formulating the architecting process as an optimization problem may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jasper H. Bussemaker , Paul Saves , Nathalie Bartoli , Thierry Lefebvre , Rémi Lafage

Neural architecture search has attracted wide attentions in both academia and industry. To accelerate it, researchers proposed weight-sharing methods which first train a super-network to reuse computation among different operators, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Qi Tian

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Kaiqiang Xu , Erhu Zhao , Yongjun Xu

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

To achieve excellent performance with modern neural networks, having the right network architecture is important. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) concerns the automatic discovery of task-specific network architectures. Modern NAS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Alexander Chebykin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

The search space of neural architecture search (NAS) for convolutional neural network (CNN) is huge. To reduce searching cost, most NAS algorithms use fixed outer network level structure, and search the repeatable cell structure only. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Chunnan Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Guosheng Feng , Fei Geng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has received extensive attention due to its capability to discover neural network architectures in an automated manner. aw_nas is an open-source Python framework implementing various NAS algorithms in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Songyi Yang , Tianchen Zhao , Niansong Zhang , Tianyi Lu , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is emerging as a new research direction which has the potential to replace the hand-crafted neural architectures designed for specific tasks. Previous evolution based architecture search requires high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Search has been proposed as an effective method for self-improving language models and agentic systems, both for post-training sample generation and for inference. However, widely used methods such as best-of-N sampling and tree search face…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guowei Xu , Zhenting Qi , Huangyuan Su , Weirui Ye , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Sham M. Kakade , Yilun Du

Stochastic, iterative search methods such as Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are proven to be efficient optimizers. However, they require evaluation of the candidate solutions which may be prohibitively expensive in many real world…

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In this report paper we first present a report of the Advanced Machine Learning Course Project on the provided data set and then present a novel heuristic algorithm for exact Bayesian network (BN) structure discovery that uses decomposable…

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