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Reliable yet efficient evaluation of generalisation performance of a proposed architecture is crucial to the success of neural architecture search (NAS). Traditional approaches face a variety of limitations: training each architecture to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-09 Binxin Ru , Clare Lyle , Lisa Schut , Miroslav Fil , Mark van der Wilk , Yarin Gal

Predictor-based algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tasks. However, these methods suffer from high computation costs, as training the performance predictor usually requires training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ruochen Wang , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

In this work, we present a simple and general search space shrinking method, called Angle-Based search space Shrinking (ABS), for Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Our approach progressively simplifies the original search space by dropping…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yiming Hu , Yuding Liang , Zichao Guo , Ruosi Wan , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei , Qingyi Gu , Jian Sun

Conducting efficient performance estimations of neural architectures is a major challenge in neural architecture search (NAS). To reduce the architecture training costs in NAS, one-shot estimators (OSEs) amortize the architecture training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Zixuan Zhou , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

The success of deep learning in recent years has lead to a rising demand for neural network architecture engineering. As a consequence, neural architecture search (NAS), which aims at automatically designing neural network architectures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Thomas Elsken , Arber Zela , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Benedikt Staffler , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada , Frank Hutter

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

The automated machine learning (AutoML) field has become increasingly relevant in recent years. These algorithms can develop models without the need for expert knowledge, facilitating the application of machine learning techniques in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Andrea Falanti , Eugenio Lomurno , Danilo Ardagna , Matteo Matteucci

The best neural architecture for a given machine learning problem depends on many factors: not only the complexity and structure of the dataset, but also on resource constraints including latency, compute, energy consumption, etc. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Chengrun Yang , Gabriel Bender , Hanxiao Liu , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Madeleine Udell , Yifeng Lu , Quoc Le , Da Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a popular method for discovering effective model architectures, especially for target hardware. As such, NAS methods that find optimal architectures under constraints are essential. In our paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yicheng Fan , Dana Alon , Jingyue Shen , Daiyi Peng , Keshav Kumar , Yun Long , Xin Wang , Fotis Iliopoulos , Da-Cheng Juan , Erik Vee

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

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) substantially improves the search efficiency by training one supernet to estimate the performance of every possible child architecture (i.e., subnet). However, the inconsistency of characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xin He , Jiangchao Yao , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Ka Chu Cheung , Simon See , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become an important approach to automatically find effective architectures. To cover all possible good architectures, we need to search in an extremely large search space with billions of candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Yong Guo , Yaofo Chen , Yin Zheng , Peilin Zhao , Jian Chen , Junzhou Huang , Mingkui Tan

Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) requires joint optimization of accuracy and latency under device constraints. Traditional supernet-based methods require multiple GPU days per dataset. Large Language Model (LLM)-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Hengyi Zhu , Grace Li Zhang , Shaoyi Huang

Deep learning-based pathological image analysis presents unique challenges due to the practical constraints of network design. Most existing methods apply computer vision models directly to medical tasks, neglecting the distinct…

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Distillation-aware Neural Architecture Search (DaNAS) aims to search for an optimal student architecture that obtains the best performance and/or efficiency when distilling the knowledge from a given teacher model. Previous DaNAS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hayeon Lee , Sohyun An , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

The search cost of neural architecture search (NAS) has been largely reduced by weight-sharing methods. These methods optimize a super-network with all possible edges and operations, and determine the optimal sub-network by discretization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Yunjie Tian , Chang Liu , Lingxi Xie , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Weight sharing, as an approach to speed up architecture performance estimation has received wide attention. Instead of training each architecture separately, weight sharing builds a supernet that assembles all the architectures as its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Yuge Zhang , Quanlu Zhang , Yaming Yang

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

To search an optimal sub-network within a general deep neural network (DNN), existing neural architecture search (NAS) methods typically rely on handcrafting a search space beforehand. Such requirements make it challenging to extend them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tianyi Chen , Luming Liang , Tianyu Ding , Ilya Zharkov

Prediction-based approaches are widely used in neural architecture search (NAS), where a predictor estimates the performance of candidate architectures to guide selection. However, existing predictors are typically trained via supervised…

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