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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

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

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) has recently received increasing attention by effectively finding high-quality neural architectures, which however consumes high computational cost by training the architecture encoded by each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shangshang Yang , Ye Tian , Xiaoshu Xiang , Shichen Peng , Xingyi Zhang

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose problem solvers that usually perform an unbiased search. This is reasonable and desirable in a black-box scenario. For combinatorial optimization problems, often more knowledge about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Vahid Roostapour , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of Neural Architecture Search (NAS), emphasizing its evolution from manual design to automated, computationally-driven approaches. It covers the inception and growth of NAS, highlighting its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Fanfei Meng , Chen-Ao Wang , Lele Zhang

Architecture search is the process of automatically learning the neural model or cell structure that best suits the given task. Recently, this approach has shown promising performance improvements (on language modeling and image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Krzysztof Maziarz , Mingxing Tan , Andrey Khorlin , Marin Georgiev , Andrea Gesmundo

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods, which automatically learn entire neural model or individual neural cell architectures, have recently achieved competitive or state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on variety of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ansel MacLaughlin , Jwala Dhamala , Anoop Kumar , Sriram Venkatapathy , Ragav Venkatesan , Rahul Gupta

We consider a simple setting in neuroevolution where an evolutionary algorithm optimizes the weights and activation functions of a simple artificial neural network. We then define simple example functions to be learned by the network and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Paul Fischer , Emil Lundt Larsen , Carsten Witt

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

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

In this paper, we approach the problem of optimizing blackbox functions over large hybrid search spaces consisting of both combinatorial and continuous parameters. We demonstrate that previous evolutionary algorithms which rely on…

Early Exit Neural Networks (EENNs) endow astandard Deep Neural Network (DNN) with Early Exit Classifiers (EECs), to provide predictions at intermediate points of the processing when enough confidence in classification is achieved. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Matteo Gambella , Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Manuel Roveri

Vanilla neural architecture search using evolutionary algorithms (EA) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet to estimate the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) in expressive search spaces is a computationally hard problem, but it also holds the potential to automatically discover completely novel and performant architectures. To achieve this we need effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Adri Gómez Martín , Felix Möller , Steven McDonagh , Monica Abella , Manuel Desco , Elliot J. Crowley , Aaron Klein , Linus Ericsson

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Shahid Siddiqui , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

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

In this work, we propose a novel evolutionary algorithm for neural architecture search, applicable to global search spaces. The algorithm's architectural representation organizes the topology in multiple hierarchical modules, while the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Aristeidis Christoforidis , George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

There is a growing interest in automated neural architecture search (NAS) methods. They are employed to routinely deliver high-quality neural network architectures for various challenging data sets and reduce the designer's effort. The NAS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Michal Pinos , Vojtech Mrazek , Lukas Sekanina

Automated machine learning (AutoML) has seen a resurgence in interest with the boom of deep learning over the past decade. In particular, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has seen significant attention throughout the AutoML research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Min Shi , David A. Wilson , Xingquan Zhu , Yu Huang , Yuan Zhuang , Jianxun Liu , Yufei Tang