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Weight sharing is a fundamental concept in neural architecture search (NAS), enabling gradient-based methods to explore cell-based architectural spaces significantly faster than traditional black-box approaches. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arjun Krishnakumar , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

One of the most critical problems in weight-sharing neural architecture search is the evaluation of candidate models within a predefined search space. In practice, a one-shot supernet is trained to serve as an evaluator. A faithful ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Ruijun Xu

Efficient hyperparameter or architecture search methods have shown remarkable results, but each of them is only applicable to searching for either hyperparameters (HPs) or architectures. In this work, we propose a unified pipeline, AutoHAS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Xuanyi Dong , Mingxing Tan , Adams Wei Yu , Daiyi Peng , Bogdan Gabrys , Quoc V. Le

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) methods co-train billions of architectures in a supernet and estimate their potential accuracy using the network weights detached from the supernet. However, the ranking correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiefeng Peng , Jiqi Zhang , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Standard neural networks are often overconfident when presented with data outside the training distribution. We introduce HyperGAN, a new generative model for learning a distribution of neural network parameters. HyperGAN does not require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Neale Ratzlaff , Li Fuxin

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automatically design deep neural networks of satisfactory performance. Wherein, architecture performance predictor is critical to efficiently value an intermediate neural architecture. But for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

While existing work on neural architecture search (NAS) tunes hyperparameters in a separate post-processing step, we demonstrate that architectural choices and other hyperparameter settings interact in a way that can render this separation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Arber Zela , Aaron Klein , Stefan Falkner , Frank Hutter

We revisit the one-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) paradigm and analyze its advantages over existing NAS approaches. Existing one-shot method, however, is hard to train and not yet effective on large scale datasets like ImageNet. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Zichao Guo , Xiangyu Zhang , Haoyuan Mu , Wen Heng , Zechun Liu , Yichen Wei , Jian Sun

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-shot NAS methods prove to be more efficient in performing NAS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Waqwoya Abebe , Sadegh Jafari , Sixing Yu , Akash Dutta , Jan Strube , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

For almost 70 years, researchers have typically selected the width of neural networks' layers either manually or through automated hyperparameter tuning methods such as grid search and, more recently, neural architecture search. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Federico Errica , Henrik Christiansen , Viktor Zaverkin , Mathias Niepert , Francesco Alesiani

Neural architecture search (NAS) and network pruning are widely studied efficient AI techniques, but not yet perfect. NAS performs exhaustive candidate architecture search, incurring tremendous search cost. Though (structured) pruning can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yanyu Li , Pu Zhao , Geng Yuan , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Xin Chen

Nearly all model algorithms used in machine learning use two different sets of parameters: the training parameters and the meta-parameters (hyperparameters). While the training parameters are learned during the training phase, the values of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Razvan Andonie , Adrian-Catalin Florea

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a promising avenue for automatically designing task-specific neural networks. Existing NAS approaches require one complete search for each deployment specification of hardware or objective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhichao Lu , Gautam Sreekumar , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become increasingly popular in computer vision, natural language processing, and other areas. However, training and fine-tuning a deep learning model is computationally intensive and time-consuming. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Learning to generate neural network parameters conditioned on task descriptions and architecture specifications is pivotal for advancing model adaptability and transfer learning. Existing methods especially those based on diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Soro Bedionita , Bruno Andreis , Song Chong , Sung Ju Hwang

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Hyperparameters tuning is a time-consuming approach, particularly when the architecture of the neural network is decided as part of this process. For instance, in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the selection of the number and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Roberto L. Castro , Diego Andrade , Basilio Fraguela

Automatic methods for generating state-of-the-art neural network architectures without human experts have generated significant attention recently. This is because of the potential to remove human experts from the design loop which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 George Adam , Jonathan Lorraine