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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…

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Deep neural networks have recently drawn considerable attention to build and evaluate artificial learning models for perceptual tasks. Here, we present a study on the performance of the deep learning models to deal with global optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Hojjat Rakhshani , Lhassane Idoumghar , Soheila Ghambari , Julien Lepagnot , Mathieu Brévilliers

Crafting neural network architectures manually is a formidable challenge often leading to suboptimal and inefficient structures. The pursuit of the perfect neural configuration is a complex task, prompting the need for a metaheuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Abdelrahman Elsaid

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

Evolutionary computation (EC)-based neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable performance in the automatic design of neural architectures. However, the high computational cost associated with evaluating searched architectures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yangyang Li , Guanlong Liu , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao

Supernet is a core component in many recent Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. It not only helps embody the search space but also provides a (relative) estimation of the final performance of candidate architectures. Thus, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Beichen Zhang , Xiaoxing Wang , Xiaohan Qin , Junchi Yan

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design process of high-performing architectures, but remains bottlenecked by expensive performance evaluation. Most existing studies that achieve faster evaluation are mostly tied to cell-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shiwen Qin , Alexander Auras , Shay B. Cohen , Elliot J. Crowley , Michael Moeller , Linus Ericsson , Jovita Lukasik

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linnan Wang , Saining Xie , Teng Li , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

The efficient, automated search for well-performing neural architectures (NAS) has drawn increasing attention in the recent past. Thereby, the predominant research objective is to reduce the necessity of costly evaluations of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jovita Lukasik , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Data-driven methods have made great progress in fault diagnosis, especially deep learning method. Deep learning is suitable for processing big data, and has a strong feature extraction ability to realize end-to-end fault diagnosis systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xudong Li , Yang Hu , Jianhua Zheng , Mingtao Li

Current neural architecture search (NAS) methods are often limited by their predefined, restrictive search spaces. While recent large language model (LLM)-assisted NAS methods enable open-ended search spaces, they often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuiko Sakuma , Masakazu Yoshimura , Marcel Gröpl , Zitang Sun , Junji Otsuka , Atsushi Irie , Takeshi Ohashi

Neural architecture search (NAS) is an approach for automatically designing a neural network architecture without human effort or expert knowledge. However, the high computational cost of NAS limits its use in commercial applications. Two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Rei Sato , Jun Sakuma , Youhei Akimoto

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have the potential for making various clinical procedures more time-efficient by automating medical image segmentation. Due to their strong, in some cases human-level, performance, they have become the standard…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Martijn M. A. Bosma , Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Monika Grewal , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Automating the research for the best neural network model is a task that has gained more and more relevance in the last few years. In this context, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents the most effective technique whose results rival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andrea Falanti , Eugenio Lomurno , Stefano Samele , Danilo Ardagna , Matteo Matteucci

Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted a lot of attention and has been illustrated to bring tangible benefits in a large number of applications in the past few years. Architecture topology and architecture size have been regarded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Xuanyi Dong , Lu Liu , Katarzyna Musial , Bogdan Gabrys

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search is one of the most popular Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods for its search efficiency and simplicity, accomplished by jointly optimizing the model weight and architecture parameters in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiangning Chen , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixiong Zhou , Qingquan Song , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been shown to outperform hand-designed models and help to democratize AI. However, NAS methods often start from scratch with each new task, making them computationally expensive and limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Networks found with Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieve state-of-the-art performance in a variety of tasks, out-performing human-designed networks. However, most NAS methods heavily rely on human-defined assumptions that constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Lopes , Luís A. Alexandre