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Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) typically optimises the architecture search process by exploiting the network or gradient properties at initialisation through zero-cost proxies. The existing proxies often rely on labelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rohan Asthana , Joschua Conrad , Maurits Ortmanns , Vasileios Belagiannis

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables researchers to automatically explore broad design spaces in order to improve efficiency of neural networks. This efficiency is especially important in the case of on-device deployment, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Łukasz Dudziak , Thomas Chau , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Royson Lee , Hyeji Kim , Nicholas D. Lane

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

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

Spiking Transformers have gained considerable attention because they achieve both the energy efficiency of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and the high capacity of Transformers. However, the existing Spiking Transformer architectures,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ziqing Wang , Qidong Zhao , Jinku Cui , Xu Liu , Dongkuan Xu

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

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) can potentially demonstrate similar performance to their dense counterparts while saving significant energy and memory at inference. However, the accuracy drop incurred by SNNs, especially at high pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Mohammad Loni , Aditya Mohan , Mehdi Asadi , Marius Lindauer

A key challenge in neural architecture search (NAS) is quickly inferring the predictive performance of a broad spectrum of networks to discover statistically accurate and computationally efficient ones. We refer to this task as model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhihao Zhang , Zhihao Jia

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) accelerates progress in deep learning through systematic refinement of model architectures. The downside is increasingly large energy consumption during the search process. Surrogate-based benchmarking…

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

Designing neural architectures requires immense manual efforts. This has promoted the development of neural architecture search (NAS) to automate the design. While previous NAS methods achieve promising results but run slowly, zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yu Shen , Yang Li , Jian Zheng , Wentao Zhang , Peng Yao , Jixiang Li , Sen Yang , Ji Liu , Bin Cui

Existing hardware-aware NAS (HW-NAS) methods typically assume access to precise information circa the target device, either via analytical approximations of the post-compilation latency model, or through learned latency predictors. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Francesco Capuano , Gabriele Tiboni , Niccolò Cavagnero , Giuseppe Averta

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) 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

One-shot NAS method has attracted much interest from the research community due to its remarkable training efficiency and capacity to discover high performance models. However, the search spaces of previous one-shot based works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ronghao Guo , Chen Lin , Chuming Li , Keyu Tian , Ming Sun , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan

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

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Liam Li , Ameet Talwalkar