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Artificial neural networks have been shown to be state-of-the-art machine learning models in a wide variety of applications, including natural language processing and image recognition. However, building a performant neural network is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Raphael T. Husistein , Markus Reiher , Marco Eckhoff

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has attracted growing interest. To reduce the search cost, recent work has explored weight sharing across models and made major progress in One-Shot NAS. However, it has been observed that a model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Xing Wang , Min Zheng

Zero-shot proxies, also known as training-free metrics, are widely adopted to reduce the computational overhead in neural network evaluation for scenarios such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), as they do not require any training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , HaythamM. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

Neural Architectures Search (NAS) becomes more and more popular over these years. However, NAS-generated models tends to suffer greater vulnerability to various malicious attacks. Lots of robust NAS methods leverage adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become increasingly popular in the deep learning community recently, mainly because it can provide an opportunity to allow interested users without rich expertise to benefit from the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shiqing Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

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

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

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

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been used recently to achieve improved performance in various tasks and most prominently in image classification. Yet, current search strategies rely on large labeled datasets, which limit their usage in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sapir Kaplan , Raja Giryes

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) often trains and evaluates a large number of architectures. Recent predictor-based NAS approaches attempt to alleviate such heavy computation costs with two key steps: sampling some architecture-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junru Wu , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Ye Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Mei Chen , Lu Yuan

Neural architecture search (NAS) has made tremendous progress in the automatic design of effective neural network structures but suffers from a heavy computational burden. One-shot NAS significantly alleviates the burden through weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Peijie Dong , Xin Niu , Lujun Li , Zhiliang Tian , Xiaodong Wang , Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Dongsheng Li

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

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a de facto approach in the recent trend of AutoML to design deep neural networks (DNNs). Efficient or near-zero-cost NAS proxies are further proposed to address the demanding computational issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuhong Li , Jiajie Li , Cong Han , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

One of the primary challenges impeding the progress of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is its extensive reliance on exorbitant computational resources. NAS benchmarks aim to simulate runs of NAS experiments at zero cost, remediating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Afzal Ahmad , Linfeng Du , Zhiyao Xie , Wei Zhang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become a key component of AutoML and a standard tool to automate the design of deep neural networks. Recently, training-free NAS as an emerging paradigm has successfully reduced the search costs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhenfeng He , Yao Shu , Zhongxiang Dai , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

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