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Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

In the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has become an increasingly important tool within the deep learning community. Despite the many recent successes of NAS, however, most existing approaches operate within highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Charles Jin , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana , Sudip Roy

In prediction-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS), performance indicators derived from graph convolutional networks have shown remarkable success. These indicators, achieved by representing feed-forward structures as component graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Minh Le , Nhan Nguyen , Ngoc Hoang Luong

Enabling efficient deep neural network (DNN) inference on edge devices with different hardware constraints is a challenging task that typically requires DNN architectures to be specialized for each device separately. To avoid the huge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mark Deutel , Simon Geis , Axel Plinge

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Recent years have witnessed the popularity and success of graph neural networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS), which has made impressive success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao , Weiwei Tu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linnan Wang , Saining Xie , Teng Li , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to learning representation on graphs in many relational tasks. Recently, researchers study neural architecture search (NAS) to reduce the dependence of human expertise and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Xinzhe Han , Zheng-jun Zha , Qingming Huang

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

Transferrable neural architecture search can be viewed as a binary optimization problem where a single optimal path should be selected among candidate paths in each edge within the repeated cell block of the directed a cyclic graph form.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Hyeong Gwon Hong , Pyunghwan Ahn , Junmo Kim

Searching for a more compact network width recently serves as an effective way of channel pruning for the deployment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) under hardware constraints. To fulfill the searching, a one-shot supernet is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Chang Xu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks. Despite the superior performance achieved, the efficiency and generality of existing methods are highly valued due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiawu Zheng , Chenyi Yang , Shaokun Zhang , Yan Wang , Baochang Zhang , Yongjian Wu , Yunsheng Wu , Ling Shao , Rongrong Ji

This paper proposes a novel differentiable architecture search method by formulating it into a distribution learning problem. We treat the continuously relaxed architecture mixing weight as random variables, modeled by Dirichlet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Xiangning Chen , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

In this paper, we propose Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) where we elaborately design broad scalable architecture dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural Network (BCNN) to solve the above issue. On one hand, the proposed broad scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , Zhiquan Sun , C. L. Philip Chen

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been popularly used for analyzing non-Euclidean data such as social network data and biological data. Despite their success, the design of graph neural networks requires a lot of manual work and domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yang Gao , Hong Yang , Peng Zhang , Chuan Zhou , Yue Hu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) emerged recently as a standard toolkit for learning from data on graphs. Current GNN designing works depend on immense human expertise to explore different message-passing mechanisms, and require manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Jincan Deng , Beichen Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Li Su , Qingming Huang

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

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful automatic alternative to manual design of a neural network. In the zero-shot version, a fast ranking function is used to compare architectures without training them. The outputs of the ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates