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Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches propose novel training-free metrics called zero-shot proxies to substantially reduce the search time compared to the traditional training-based NAS. Despite the success on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Sweta Priyadarshi , Zhuojin Li

Recently, zero-shot (or training-free) Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches have been proposed to liberate NAS from the expensive training process. The key idea behind zero-shot NAS approaches is to design proxies that can predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Guihong Li , Duc Hoang , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Ming Lin , Zhangyang Wang , Radu Marculescu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful technique for discovering high-performing CNN architectures, but most existing methods rely on costly training or extensive sampling. Zero-shot NAS offers a training-free alternative by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ye Qiao , Jingcheng Li , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has significantly improved productivity in the design and deployment of neural networks (NN). As NAS typically evaluates multiple models by training them partially or completely, the improved productivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yash Akhauri , J. Pablo Munoz , Nilesh Jain , Ravi Iyer

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hua Zheng , Kuang-Hung Liu , Igor Fedorov , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Wei Wen

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

Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Lin , Pichao Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

In spite of the outstanding performance, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is criticized for massive computation. Recently, Zero-shot NAS has emerged as a promising approach by exploiting Zero-cost (ZC) proxies, which markedly reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Xiang Liu , Zhenheng Tang , Xuebo Liu , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Zero-cost proxies (ZC proxies) are a recent architecture performance prediction technique aiming to significantly speed up algorithms for neural architecture search (NAS). Recent work has shown that these techniques show great promise, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Arjun Krishnakumar , Colin White , Arber Zela , Renbo Tu , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) typically optimises the architecture search process by exploiting the network or gradient properties at initialisation through zero-cost proxies. The existing proxies often rely on labelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rohan Asthana , Joschua Conrad , Maurits Ortmanns , Vasileios Belagiannis

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) frameworks have been successful in finding optimal architectures for given conditions (e.g., performance or latency). However, they search for optimal architectures in terms of their performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hyeonjeong Ha , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Training-free network architecture search (NAS) aims to discover high-performing networks with zero-cost proxies, capturing network characteristics related to the final performance. However, network rankings estimated by previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Junghyup Lee , Bumsub Ham

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

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

Designing neural architectures requires immense manual efforts. This has promoted the development of neural architecture search (NAS) to automate the design. While previous NAS methods achieve promising results but run slowly, zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yu Shen , Yang Li , Jian Zheng , Wentao Zhang , Peng Yao , Jixiang Li , Sen Yang , Ji Liu , Bin Cui

Recent advancements in Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) highlight the efficacy of zero-cost proxies in various NAS benchmarks. Several studies propose the automated design of zero-cost proxies to achieve SOTA performance but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peijie Dong , Lujun Li , Xinglin Pan , Zimian Wei , Xiang Liu , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is quickly becoming the standard methodology to design neural network models. However, NAS is typically compute-intensive because multiple models need to be evaluated before choosing the best one. To reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Abhinav Mehrotra , Łukasz Dudziak , Nicholas D. Lane

Training-free Neural Architecture Search (NAS) efficiently identifies high-performing neural networks using zero-cost (ZC) proxies. Unlike multi-shot and one-shot NAS approaches, ZC-NAS is both (i) time-efficient, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sofia Casarin , Sergio Escalera , Oswald Lanz

Despite the increasing interest in neural architecture search (NAS), the significant computational cost of NAS is a hindrance to researchers. Hence, we propose to reduce the cost of NAS using proxy data, i.e., a representative subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Neural architecture search (NAS) has a great impact by automatically designing effective neural network architectures. However, the prohibitive computational demand of conventional NAS algorithms (e.g. $10^4$ GPU hours) makes it difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Han Cai , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han
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