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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) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) effectively discovers new Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, particularly for accuracy optimization. However, prior approaches often require resource-intensive training on super networks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ye Qiao , Haocheng Xu , Yifan Zhang , Sitao Huang

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shen Yan , Biyi Fang , Faen Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xiao Zeng , Hui Xu , Mi Zhang

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

Reinforcement learning-based Quantum Architecture Search (QAS) offers a promising avenue for automating the design of variational quantum circuits, but existing methods typically decouple discrete structure search from continuous parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jiayang Niu , Yan Wang , Jie Li , Ke Deng , Azadeh Alavi , Muhammad Usman , Yongli Ren

Quantum machine learning offers promising advantages for classification tasks, but noise, decoherence, and connectivity constraints in current devices continue to limit the efficient execution of feature map-based circuits. Gate Assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 F. Rodríguez-Díaz , D. Gutiérrez-Avilés , A. Troncoso , F. Martínez-Álvarez

A myriad of recent breakthroughs in hand-crafted neural architectures for visual recognition have highlighted the urgent need to explore hybrid architectures consisting of diversified building blocks. Meanwhile, neural architecture search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Changlin Li , Tao Tang , Guangrun Wang , Jiefeng Peng , Bing Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a collection of methods to craft the way neural networks are built. Current NAS methods are far from ab initio and automatic, as they use manual backbone architectures or micro building blocks (cells),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anubhav Garg , Amit Kumar Saha , Debo Dutta

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in finding better neural network designs. Sample-based NAS is the most reliable approach which aims at exploring the search space and evaluating the most promising architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Han Shi , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok , Tong Zhang

The limited number of qubits per chip remains a critical bottleneck in quantum computing, motivating the use of distributed architectures that interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs). However, executing quantum algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Brayden Goldstein-Gelb , Kun Liu , John M. Martyn , Hengyun , Zhou , Yongshan Ding , Yuan Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

Edge computing aims to enable edge devices, such as IoT devices, to process data locally instead of relying on the cloud. However, deep learning techniques like computer vision and natural language processing can be computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Oshin Dutta , Tanu Kanvar , Sumeet Agarwal

Quantum computing is currently strongly limited by the impact of noise, in particular introduced by the application of two-qubit gates. For this reason, reducing the number of two-qubit gates is of paramount importance on noisy…

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

This paper aims at enlarging the problem of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) from Single-Path and Multi-Path Search to automated Mixed-Path Search. In particular, we model the NAS problem as a sparse supernet using a new continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yan Wu , Aoming Liu , Zhiwu Huang , Siwei Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

The design of handcrafted neural networks requires a lot of time and resources. Recent techniques in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have proven to be competitive or better than traditional handcrafted design, although they require domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Cat P. Le , Mohammadreza Soltani , Robert Ravier , Vahid Tarokh

We propose a novel strategy for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) based on Bregman iterations. Starting from a sparse neural network our gradient-based one-shot algorithm gradually adds relevant parameters in an inverse scale space manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Leon Bungert , Tim Roith , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai