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Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

Deep learning has made breakthroughs and substantial in many fields due to its powerful automatic representation capabilities. It has been proven that neural architecture design is crucial to the feature representation of data and the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Weight sharing is a fundamental concept in neural architecture search (NAS), enabling gradient-based methods to explore cell-based architectural spaces significantly faster than traditional black-box approaches. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arjun Krishnakumar , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Abhishek Singh , Anubhav Garg , Jinan Zhou , Shiv Ram Dubey , Debo Dutta

This paper addresses the difficult problem of finding an optimal neural architecture design for a given image classification task. We propose a method that aggregates two main results of the previous state-of-the-art in neural architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Moez Baccouche , Stephane Pateux

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Vic Ciesielski , Haytham M. Fayek , Xiaojun Chang

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

With the success of deep neural networks, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a way of automatic model design has attracted wide attention. As training every child model from scratch is very time-consuming, recent works leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Yuge Zhang , Zejun Lin , Junyang Jiang , Quanlu Zhang , Yujing Wang , Hui Xue , Chen Zhang , Yaming Yang

Weight sharing promises to make neural architecture search (NAS) tractable even on commodity hardware. Existing methods in this space rely on a diverse set of heuristics to design and train the shared-weight backbone network, a.k.a. the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kaicheng Yu , René Ranftl , Mathieu Salzmann

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-shot NAS methods prove to be more efficient in performing NAS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Waqwoya Abebe , Sadegh Jafari , Sixing Yu , Akash Dutta , Jan Strube , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

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) automatically finds the best task-specific neural network topology, outperforming many manual architecture designs. However, it can be prohibitively expensive as the search requires training thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Chris Zhang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) technologies have emerged in many domains to jointly learn the architectures and weights of the neural network. However, most existing NAS works claim they are task-specific and focus only on optimizing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sen Yang , Wankou Yang , Zhen Cui

In the past decade, advances in deep learning have resulted in breakthroughs in a variety of areas, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech recognition, and reinforcement learning. Specialized, high-performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Colin White , Mahmoud Safari , Rhea Sukthanker , Binxin Ru , Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Debadeepta Dey , Frank Hutter

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong