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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has driven innovations and created new opportunities across various sectors. However, leveraging domain-specific knowledge often requires automated tools to design and configure models effectively. In the case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

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

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) provides a systematic framework for automating the design of neural network architectures, yet its widespread adoption is hindered by prohibitive computational requirements. Existing zero-cost proxy methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

Early methods in the rapidly developing field of neural architecture search (NAS) required fully training thousands of neural networks. To reduce this extreme computational cost, dozens of techniques have since been proposed to predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Colin White , Arber Zela , Binxin Ru , Yang Liu , Frank Hutter

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) 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

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

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

A promising alternative to the computationally expensive Neural Architecture Search (NAS) involves the development of Zero Cost Proxies (ZCPs), which correlate well with trained performance, but can be computed through a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Richard Goldman , Varun Komperla , Thomas Ploetz , Harish Haresamudram

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 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

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
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