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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

The traditional Neural Network-development process requires substantial expert knowledge and relies heavily on intuition and trial-and-error. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks were introduced to robustly search for network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mohamed Shahawy , Elhadj Benkhelifa

Recently, Neural Architecture Search has achieved great success in large-scale image classification. In contrast, there have been limited works focusing on architecture search for object detection, mainly because the costly ImageNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Junran Peng , Ming Sun , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Tieniu Tan , Junjie Yan

Evolution-based neural architecture search requires high computational resources, resulting in long search time. In this work, we propose a framework of applying the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) to the neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

The rapid proliferation of computing domains relying on Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a pressing need for efficient and accurate deep-learning (DL) models that can run on low-power devices. However, traditional DL models tend…

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful framework for automatically discovering neural architectures that balance accuracy and efficiency. However, as AI transitions from static benchmarks to real-world deployment, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matteo Gambella , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Neural architecture search (NAS) has fostered various fields of machine learning. Despite its prominent dedications, many have criticized the intrinsic limitations of high computational cost. We aim to ameliorate this by proposing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Kwanghee Choi , Minyoung Choe , Hyelee Lee

Modern solutions to the single image super-resolution (SISR) problem using deep neural networks aim not only at better performance accuracy but also at a lighter and computationally efficient model. To that end, recently, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Yan Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Suryansh Kumar , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

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

The results of training a neural network are heavily dependent on the architecture chosen; and even a modification of only its size, however small, typically involves restarting the training process. In contrast to this, we begin training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Rupert Mitchell , Robin Menzenbach , Kristian Kersting , Martin Mundt

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms automate the task of finding optimal deep learning architectures given an initial search space of possible operations. Developing these search spaces is usually a manual affair with pre-optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Robert Wu , Nayan Saxena , Rohan Jain

Neural architecture search (NAS), which automatically designs the architectures of deep neural networks, has achieved breakthrough success over many applications in the past few years. Among different classes of NAS methods, evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xiangning Xie , Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Gary G. Yen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising approach for automatically designing neural network architectures. However, the architecture estimation of NAS is computationally expensive and time-consuming because of training multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kun Jing , Luoyu Chen , Jungang Xu , Jianwei Tai , Yiyu Wang , Shuaimin Li

Neuroevolution automates the complex task of neural network design but often ignores the inherent adversarial fragility of evolved models which is a barrier to adoption in safety-critical scenarios. While robust training methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Inês Valentim , Nuno Antunes , Nuno Lourenço

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms adopt neural predictors to accelerate the architecture search. The capability of neural predictors to accurately predict the performance metrics of neural architecture is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chen Wei , Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Haihong Hu , Yue Wang , Jimin Liang

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) has been applied to automate the design of neural networks in real-world applications. A large number of algorithms have been developed to improve the search cost or the performance of the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yao Shu , Yizhou Chen , Zhongxiang Dai , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Neural architecture search has been shown to hold great promise towards the automation of deep learning. However in spite of its potential, neural architecture search remains quite costly. To this point, we propose a novel gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Efi Kokiopoulou , Anja Hauth , Luciano Sbaiz , Andrea Gesmundo , Gabor Bartok , Jesse Berent