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Neural Architecture Search methods are effective but often use complex algorithms to come up with the best architecture. We propose an approach with three basic steps that is conceptually much simpler. First we train N random architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Wei Wen , Hanxiao Liu , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Gabriel Bender , Pieter-Jan Kindermans

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Current neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms still require expert knowledge and effort to design a search space for network construction. In this paper, we consider automating the search space design to minimize human interference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daquan Zhou , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaochen Lian , Linjie Yang , Yujing Xue , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Automatic methods for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have been shown to produce state-of-the-art network models. Yet, their main drawback is the computational complexity of the search process. As some primal methods optimized over a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-11 Asaf Noy , Niv Nayman , Tal Ridnik , Nadav Zamir , Sivan Doveh , Itamar Friedman , Raja Giryes , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Due to their high computational efficiency on a continuous space, gradient optimization methods have shown great potential in the neural architecture search (NAS) domain. The mapping of network representation from the discrete space to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Jiankun Liu , Weiping Wang

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has recently been addressed from various directions, including discrete, sampling-based methods and efficient differentiable approaches. While the former are notoriously expensive, the latter suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Arber Zela , Frank Hutter , Margret Keuper

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful approach for automating neural network design. However, existing NAS methods face critical limitations in real-world deployments: architectures lack adaptability across scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Maolin Wang , Tianshuo Wei , Sheng Zhang , Ruocheng Guo , Wanyu Wang , Shanshan Ye , Lixin Zou , Xuetao Wei , Xiangyu Zhao

In computer vision research, the process of automating architecture engineering, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), has gained substantial interest. Due to the high computational costs, most recent approaches to NAS as well as the few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Margret Keuper

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently become a topic of great interest. However, there is a potentially impactful issue within NAS that remains largely unrecognized: noise. Due to stochastic factors in neural network initialization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has received increasing attention because of its exceptional merits in automating the design of Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures. However, the performance evaluation process, as a key part of NAS,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaotian Song , Xiangning Xie , Zeqiong Lv , Gary G. Yen , Weiping Ding , Jiancheng Lv , Yanan Sun

Understanding and modelling the performance of neural architectures is key to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Performance predictors have seen widespread use in low-cost NAS and achieve high ranking correlations between predicted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Fred X. Han , Keith G. Mills , Fabian Chudak , Parsa Riahi , Mohammad Salameh , Jialin Zhang , Wei Lu , Shangling Jui , Di Niu

Neural Architecture Search has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, many assumptions, that require human definition, related with the problems being solved or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural architecture search (NAS) can have a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing optimal neural network architectures for various tasks. A variant, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Rongrong Ji

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

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Chun-Ting Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

The key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is designing how to explore wisely in the huge search space. We propose a new NAS method called TNAS (NAS with trees), which improves search efficiency by exploring only a small number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guocheng Qian , Xuanyang Zhang , Guohao Li , Chen Zhao , Yukang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Sun

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) is a technique used to automatically design the architecture of a neural network for a specific task and target hardware. However, evaluating the performance of candidate architectures is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Nilotpal Sinha , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Anis Kacem , Peyman Rostami , Carl Shneider , Djamila Aouada

We propose a novel strategy for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) based on Bregman iterations. Starting from a sparse neural network our gradient-based one-shot algorithm gradually adds relevant parameters in an inverse scale space manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Leon Bungert , Tim Roith , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger