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This paper introduces Evolutionary Multi-Objective Network Architecture Search (EMNAS) for the first time to optimize neural network architectures in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Autonomous Driving (AD). EMNAS uses genetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nihal Acharya Adde , Alexandra Gianzina , Hanno Gottschalk , Andreas Ebert

The effectiveness of Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) is influenced by the design of the search space. Nevertheless, common methods including the global search space, scalable search space and hierarchical search space have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Juan Zou , Han Chu , Yizhang Xia , Junwen Xu , Yuan Liu , Zhanglu Hou

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

In this paper, we propose Efficient Progressive Neural Architecture Search (EPNAS), a neural architecture search (NAS) that efficiently handles large search space through a novel progressive search policy with performance prediction based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yanqi Zhou , Peng Wang , Sercan Arik , Haonan Yu , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Greg Diamos

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Kaiqiang Xu , Erhu Zhao , Yongjun Xu

Evolution Strategies (ESs) have recently become popular for training deep neural networks, in particular on reinforcement learning tasks, a special form of controller design. Compared to classic problems in continuous direct search, deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Nils Müller , Tobias Glasmachers

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Caiyang Yu , Xianggen Liu , Yifan Wang , Yun Liu , Wentao Feng , Deng Xiong , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Designing complex architectures has been an essential cogwheel in the revolution deep learning has brought about in the past decade. When solving difficult problems in a datadriven manner, a well-tried approach is to take an architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Attila Nagy , Ábel Boros

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been shown to be powerful tools for complex optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in both communication and big data analytics. This paper presents a new EA, namely Negatively Correlated Search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Ke Tang , Peng Yang , Xin Yao

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) based neural architecture search (NAS) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet for estimating the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

In many real-world applications, we often need to handle various deployment scenarios, where the resource constraint and the superclass of interest corresponding to a group of classes are dynamically specified. How to efficiently deploy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jing Liu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan , Xu Liu , Dinh Phung , Yuanqing Li , Jianfei Cai

We propose a method of neural evolution structures (NESs) combining artificial neural networks (ANNs) and evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to generate High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) structures. Our inverse design approach is based on pair…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-26 Conrard Giresse Tetsassi Feugmo , Kevin Ryczko , Abu Anand , Chandra Veer Singh , Isaac Tamblyn

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained widespread attention for its transformative potential in deep learning model design. However, the vast and complex search space of NAS leads to significant computational and time costs. Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingye Zhou , Caiyang Yu , Chenwei Tang

The search ability of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) depends on the variation among the individuals in the population [3, 4, 8]. Maintaining an optimal level of diversity in the EA population is imperative to ensure that progress of the EA…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Maumita Bhattacharya

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Vic Ciesielski , Haytham M. Fayek , Xiaojun Chang

Evolution strategies (ES) are a family of black-box optimization algorithms able to train deep neural networks roughly as well as Q-learning and policy gradient methods on challenging deep reinforcement learning (RL) problems, but are much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Edoardo Conti , Vashisht Madhavan , Felipe Petroski Such , Joel Lehman , Kenneth O. Stanley , Jeff Clune