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In this paper, we present a general and effective framework for Neural Architecture Search (NAS), named PredNAS. The motivation is that given a differentiable performance estimation function, we can directly optimize the architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Liuchun Yuan , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Neuroevolution has greatly promoted Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture design and its applications, while there is a lack of methods available across different DNN types concerning both their scale and performance. In this study, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Zhenhao Shuai , Hongbo Liu , Zhaolin Wan , Wei-Jie Yu , Jun Zhang

This paper introduces a novel optimization method for differential neural architecture search, based on the theory of prediction with expert advice. Its optimization criterion is well fitted for an architecture-selection, i.e., it minimizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Niv Nayman , Asaf Noy , Tal Ridnik , Itamar Friedman , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Designing complex architectures has been an essential cogwheel in the revolution deep learning has brought about in the past decade. When solving difficult problems in a datadriven manner, a well-tried approach is to take an architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Attila Nagy , Ábel Boros

Neural network architecture search provides a solution to the automatic design of network structures. However, it is difficult to search the whole network architecture directly. Although using stacked cells to search neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Juan Zou , Shenghong Wu , Yizhang Xia , Weiwei Jiang , Zeping Wu , Jinhua Zheng

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

Recently, differentiable neural architecture search methods significantly reduce the search cost by constructing a super network and relax the architecture representation by assigning architecture weights to the candidate operations. All…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xukai Xie , Yuan Zhou , Sun-Yuan Kung

This paper proposes a neural architecture search space using ResNet as a framework, with search objectives including parameters for convolution, pooling, fully connected layers, and connectivity of the residual network. In addition to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shang Wang , Huanrong Tang , Jianquan Ouyang

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

The goals of this research were to search for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, suitable for an on-device processor with limited computing resources, performing at substantially lower Network Architecture Search (NAS) costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Chakkrit Termritthikun , Yeshi Jamtsho , Jirarat Ieamsaard , Paisarn Muneesawang , Ivan Lee

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to optimize deep neural networks' architecture for better accuracy or smaller computational cost and has recently gained more research interests. Despite various successful approaches proposed to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Bas van Stein , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automatically design deep neural networks of satisfactory performance. Wherein, architecture performance predictor is critical to efficiently value an intermediate neural architecture. But for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Neural network architectures found by sophistic search algorithms achieve strikingly good test performance, surpassing most human-crafted network models by significant margins. Although computationally efficient, their design is often very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Recent advances in adversarial attacks show the vulnerability of deep neural networks searched by Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although NAS methods can find network architectures with the state-of-the-art performance, the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhixiong Yue , Baijiong Lin , Xiaonan Huang , Yu Zhang

Neuroevolutionary algorithms, automatic searches of neural network structures by means of evolutionary techniques, are computationally costly procedures. In spite of this, due to the great performance provided by the architectures which are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Unai Garciarena , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) and network pruning are widely studied efficient AI techniques, but not yet perfect. NAS performs exhaustive candidate architecture search, incurring tremendous search cost. Though (structured) pruning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yanyu Li , Pu Zhao , Geng Yuan , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Xin Chen

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

3D neural networks are widely used in real-world applications (e.g., AR/VR headsets, self-driving cars). They are required to be fast and accurate; however, limited hardware resources on edge devices make these requirements rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Shengyu Zhao , Kevin Shao , Song Han