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Search space design is very critical to neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms. We propose a fine-grained search space comprised of atomic blocks, a minimal search unit that is much smaller than the ones used in recent NAS algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jieru Mei , Yingwei Li , Xiaochen Lian , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Alan Yuille , Jianchao Yang

Edge computing aims to enable edge devices, such as IoT devices, to process data locally instead of relying on the cloud. However, deep learning techniques like computer vision and natural language processing can be computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Oshin Dutta , Tanu Kanvar , Sumeet Agarwal

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used in various fields including healthcare, autonomous vehicles, robotics, traffic monitoring, and agriculture. Many modern AI applications in these fields are multi-tasking in nature (i.e. perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Md Hafizur Rahman , Md Mashfiq Rizvee , Sumaiya Shomaji , Prabuddha Chakraborty

When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters - population size, mutation rate, cloning rate, and number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William J. Teahan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) continue to achieve great success in classification tasks as innovative techniques and complex multi-path architecture topologies are introduced. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Trevor Londt , Xiaoying Gao , Peter Andreae , Yi Mei

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms aim at finding efficient Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures for a given application under given system constraints. DNNs are computationally-complex as well as vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alberto Marchisio , Vojtech Mrazek , Andrea Massa , Beatrice Bussolino , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture design processes and improve the performance of deep neural networks. Platform-aware NAS methods consider both performance and complexity and can find well-performing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuhei Noda , Shota Saito , Shinichi Shirakawa

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an attractive approach to automate the design of optimized architectures but is constrained by high computational budget, especially when optimizing for multiple, important conflicting objectives. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhao Wei , Chin Chun Ooi , Yew-Soon Ong

Mobile and edge computing devices for always-on classification tasks require energy-efficient neural network architectures. In this paper we present several changes to neural architecture searches (NAS) that improve the chance of success in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Daniel T. Speckhard , Karolis Misiunas , Sagi Perel , Tenghui Zhu , Simon Carlile , Malcolm Slaney

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

Many existing neural architecture search (NAS) solutions rely on downstream training for architecture evaluation, which takes enormous computations. Considering that these computations bring a large carbon footprint, this paper aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jingjing Xu , Liang Zhao , Junyang Lin , Rundong Gao , Xu Sun , Hongxia Yang

Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proven effective in discovering new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for scenarios with well-defined accuracy optimization goals. However, previous approaches often involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen