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In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-15 Francesco Paolo Casale , Jonathan Gordon , Nicolo Fusi

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

In prediction-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS), performance indicators derived from graph convolutional networks have shown remarkable success. These indicators, achieved by representing feed-forward structures as component graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Minh Le , Nhan Nguyen , Ngoc Hoang Luong

Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been introduced and show impressive performance on many benchmarks. Among those NAS studies, Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT) aims to adapt the given neural architecture to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Do-Guk Kim , Heung-Chang Lee

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

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

Training-free Neural Architecture Search (NAS) efficiently identifies high-performing neural networks using zero-cost (ZC) proxies. Unlike multi-shot and one-shot NAS approaches, ZC-NAS is both (i) time-efficient, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sofia Casarin , Sergio Escalera , Oswald Lanz

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) is a powerful automatic alternative to manual design of a neural network. In the zero-shot version, a fast ranking function is used to compare architectures without training them. The outputs of the ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Predictor-based algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tasks. However, these methods suffer from high computation costs, as training the performance predictor usually requires training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ruochen Wang , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Lin , Pichao Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides a promising avenue for automating the complex design of deep learning (DL) models. However, current differentiable NAS methods often face constraints in efficiency, operation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lunchen Xie , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Gambella , Danilo Ardagna , Manual Roveri , Matteo Matteucci , Qingjiang Shi

Deep learning has revolutionized computer vision, but it achieved its tremendous success using deep network architectures which are mostly hand-crafted and therefore likely suboptimal. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ondřej Týbl , Lukáš Neumann

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the importance of candidate operations and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaoxing Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Jianlin Su , Xiaokang Yang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hua Zheng , Kuang-Hung Liu , Igor Fedorov , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Wei Wen

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) 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

With the rapid development of neural architecture search (NAS), researchers found powerful network architectures for a wide range of vision tasks. However, it remains unclear if the searched architecture can transfer across different types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a hard computationally expensive optimization problem with a discrete, vast, and spiky search space. One of the key research efforts dedicated to this space focuses on accelerating NAS via certain proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Bo Lyu , Yu Cui , Tuo Shi , Ke Li