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Designing neural networks for object recognition requires considerable architecture engineering. As a remedy, neuro-evolutionary network architecture search, which automatically searches for optimal network architectures using evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Cristiano Saltori , Subhankar Roy , Nicu Sebe , Giovanni Iacca

This work targets designing a principled and unified training-free framework for Neural Architecture Search (NAS), with high performance, low cost, and in-depth interpretation. NAS has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Junru Wu , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi , Zhicheng Yan , Yi Yang , Zhangyang Wang

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

While biological neural networks develop from compact genomes using relatively simple rules, modern artificial neural architecture search methods mostly involve explicit and routine manual work. In this paper, we introduce MorphoNAS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mykola Glybovets , Sergii Medvid

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) based neural architecture search (NAS) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet for estimating the fitness of…

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

In this paper, we propose Broad Neural Architecture Search (BNAS) where we elaborately design broad scalable architecture dubbed Broad Convolutional Neural Network (BCNN) to solve the above issue. On one hand, the proposed broad scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Zixiang Ding , Yaran Chen , Nannan Li , Dongbin Zhao , Zhiquan Sun , C. L. Philip Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks have been used in a variety of image related applications after their rise in popularity due to ImageNet competition. Convolutional Neural Networks have shown remarkable results in applications including face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Anshumaan Chauhan , Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , S. Vadivel

Recent advances in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) such as one-shot NAS offer the ability to extract specialized hardware-aware sub-network configurations from a task-specific super-network. While considerable effort has been employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Daniel Cummings , Anthony Sarah , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Maciej Szankin , Juan Pablo Munoz , Sairam Sundaresan

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

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Multiplication-less neural networks significantly reduce the time and energy cost on the hardware platform, as the compute-intensive multiplications are replaced with lightweight bit-shift operations. However, existing bit-shift networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Xiaoxuan Lou , Guowen Xu , Kangjie Chen , Guanlin Li , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang

Neuroevolution is one of the methodologies that can be used for learning optimal architecture during training. It uses evolutionary algorithms to generate the topology of artificial neural networks and its parameters. The main benefits are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 M. Pietroń , D. Żurek , K. Faber , R. Corizzo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in many applications. The architectures of DNNs play a crucial role in their performance, which is usually manually designed with rich expertise. However, such a design process is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Gary G. Yen , Kay Chen Tan

Early advancements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architectures are primarily driven by human expertise and by elaborate design processes. Recently, neural architecture search was proposed with the aim of automating the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Neural network architectures found by sophistic search algorithms achieve strikingly good test performance, surpassing most human-crafted network models by significant margins. Although computationally efficient, their design is often very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

Neural architecture search (NAS), which automatically designs the architectures of deep neural networks, has achieved breakthrough success over many applications in the past few years. Among different classes of NAS methods, evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xiangning Xie , Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Gary G. Yen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

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

Electroencephalograms (EEGs) are brain dynamics measured outside the brain, which have been widely utilized in non-invasive brain-computer interface applications. Recently, various neural network approaches have been proposed to improve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Yiqun Duan , Zhen Wang , Yi Li , Jianhang Tang , Yu-Kai Wang , Chin-Teng Lin

We introduce a new function-preserving transformation for efficient neural architecture search. This network transformation allows reusing previously trained networks and existing successful architectures that improves sample efficiency. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Han Cai , Jiacheng Yang , Weinan Zhang , Song Han , Yong Yu