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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used in numerous real-world applications such as vision-based autonomous driving and video content analysis. To run CNN inference on various target devices, hardware-aware neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Bingqian Lu , Jianyi Yang , Weiwen Jiang , Yiyu Shi , Shaolei Ren

Recent years have witnessed a surging interest in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Various algorithms have been proposed to improve the search efficiency and effectiveness of NAS, i.e., to reduce the search cost and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yao Shu , Shaofeng Cai , Zhongxiang Dai , Beng Chin Ooi , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a recent methodology for automating the design of neural network architectures. Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a promising NAS approach that dramatically increases search efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Erik Bodin , Federico Tomasi , Zhenwen Dai

Most conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approaches are limited in that they only generate architectures without searching for the optimal parameters. While some NAS methods handle this issue by utilizing a supernet trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wonyong Jeong , Hayeon Lee , Gun Park , Eunyoung Hyung , Jinheon Baek , Sung Ju Hwang

High sensitivity of neural architecture search (NAS) methods against their input such as step-size (i.e., learning rate) and search space prevents practitioners from applying them out-of-the-box to their own problems, albeit its purpose is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Youhei Akimoto , Shinichi Shirakawa , Nozomu Yoshinari , Kento Uchida , Shota Saito , Kouhei Nishida

The ability to rank candidate architectures is the key to the performance of neural architecture search~(NAS). One-shot NAS is proposed to reduce the expense but shows inferior performance against conventional NAS and is not adequately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Renqian Luo , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen

Determining the performance of a Deep Neural Network during Neural Architecture Search processes is essential for identifying optimal architectures and hyperparameters. Traditionally, this process requires training and evaluation of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Paolo Romano , Penousal Machado

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are computationally intensive and often accelerated using crossbar-based in-memory computing (IMC) architectures. However, large convolutional layers must be partitioned across multiple crossbars,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shuai Dong , Junyi Yang , Ye Ke , Hongyang Shang , Arindam Basu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool for automating architecture design. One-Shot NAS techniques, such as DARTS, have gained substantial popularity due to their combination of search efficiency with simplicity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Vasco Lopes , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an automated technique to design optimal neural network architectures for a specific workload. Conventionally, evaluating candidate networks in NAS involves extensive training, which requires significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tomomasa Yamasaki , Zhehui Wang , Tao Luo , Niangjun Chen , Bo Wang

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

This paper provides a novel parsimonious yet efficient design for zero-shot learning (ZSL), dubbed ParsNets, where we are interested in learning a composition of on-device friendly linear networks, each with orthogonality and low-rankness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jingcai Guo , Qihua Zhou , Ruibing Li , Xiaocheng Lu , Ziming Liu , Junyang Chen , Xin Xie , Jie Zhang

Neural structure search (NAS), as the mainstream approach to automate deep neural architecture design, has achieved much success in recent years. However, the performance estimation component adhering to NAS is often prohibitively costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zixuan Liang , Yanan Sun

Can we reduce the search cost of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) from days down to only few hours? NAS methods automate the design of Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) under hardware constraints and they have emerged as key components of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dimitrios Stamoulis , Ruizhou Ding , Di Wang , Dimitrios Lymberopoulos , Bodhi Priyantha , Jie Liu , Diana Marculescu

This paper investigates the stochastic distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by the summation of $n$ local cost functions. We solve such a problem by involving zeroth-order (ZO) information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Shengjun Zhang , Yunlong Dong , Dong Xie , Lisha Yao , Colleen P. Bailey , Shengli Fu

Recent one-shot Neural Architecture Search algorithms rely on training a hardware-agnostic super-network tailored to a specific task and then extracting efficient sub-networks for different hardware platforms. Popular approaches separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Fang Chen , Sairam Sundaresan , Anthony Sarah

An important step in the task of neural network design, such as hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) or neural architecture search (NAS), is the evaluation of a candidate model's performance. Given fixed computational resources, one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shengcao Cao , Xiaofang Wang , Kris Kitani

Due to increasing privacy concerns, neural network (NN) based secure inference (SI) schemes that simultaneously hide the client inputs and server models attract major research interests. While existing works focused on developing secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Song Bian , Weiwen Jiang , Qing Lu , Yiyu Shi , Takashi Sato