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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

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) have gained extensive attention for their superior inferencing efficiency and compression ratio compared to traditional full-precision networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of BNNs, designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zhihao Lin , Yongtao Wang , Jinhe Zhang , Xiaojie Chu , Haibin Ling

Despite the empirical success of neural architecture search (NAS) in deep learning applications, the optimality, reproducibility and cost of NAS schemes remain hard to assess. In this paper, we propose Generative Adversarial NAS (GA-NAS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei , Fred X. Han , Di Niu , Mohammad Salameh , Keith Mills , Shuo Lian , Wei Lu , Shangling Jui

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) based neural architecture search (NAS) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet for estimating the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing network architectures by machines, is hoped and expected to bring about a new revolution in machine learning. Despite these high expectation, the effectiveness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Changlin Li , Jiefeng Peng , Liuchun Yuan , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin , Xiaojun Chang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

Vanilla neural architecture search using evolutionary algorithms (EA) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet to estimate the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool for automating effective image processing DNN designing. The ranking has been advocated to design an efficient performance predictor for NAS. The previous contrastive method solves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Bicheng Guo , Tao Chen , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Peng Ye , Jiming Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that aims to automate the procedure of architecture design has achieved promising results in many computer vision fields. In this paper, we propose an AdversarialNAS method specially tailored for Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Chen Gao , Yunpeng Chen , Si Liu , Zhenxiong Tan , Shuicheng Yan

Practical use of neural networks often involves requirements on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find networks under such requirements is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing neural architectures by machines, has been considered a key step toward automatic machine learning. One notable NAS branch is the weight-sharing NAS, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guangrun Wang , Changlin Li , Liuchun Yuan , Jiefeng Peng , Xiaoyu Xian , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Liang Lin

The performance of a deep neural network is heavily dependent on its architecture and various neural architecture search strategies have been developed for automated network architecture design. Recently, evolutionary neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Ran Cheng , Kuangrong Hao

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, but it achieved its tremendous success using deep network architectures which are mostly hand-crafted and therefore likely suboptimal. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hard computationally expensive optimization problem with a discrete, vast, and spiky search space. One of the key research efforts dedicated to this space focuses on accelerating NAS via certain proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bo Lyu , Yu Cui , Tuo Shi , Ke Li

Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) requires joint optimization of accuracy and latency under device constraints. Traditional supernet-based methods require multiple GPU days per dataset. Large Language Model (LLM)-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyi Zhu , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang

Neural structure search (NAS), as the mainstream approach to automate deep neural architecture design, has achieved much success in recent years. However, the performance estimation component adhering to NAS is often prohibitively costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zixuan Liang , Yanan Sun

We achieve very efficient deep learning model deployment that designs neural network architectures to fit different hardware constraints. Given a constraint, most neural architecture search (NAS) methods either sample a set of sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Sian-Yao Huang , Wei-Ta Chu