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We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Neural architecture search (NAS) has a great impact by automatically designing effective neural network architectures. However, the prohibitive computational demand of conventional NAS algorithms (e.g. $10^4$ GPU hours) makes it difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Han Cai , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

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

In computer vision research, the process of automating architecture engineering, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), has gained substantial interest. Due to the high computational costs, most recent approaches to NAS as well as the few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Margret Keuper

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a de facto approach in the recent trend of AutoML to design deep neural networks (DNNs). Efficient or near-zero-cost NAS proxies are further proposed to address the demanding computational issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuhong Li , Jiajie Li , Cong Han , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

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

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Caiyang Yu , Xianggen Liu , Yifan Wang , Yun Liu , Wentao Feng , Deng Xiong , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

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

Despite the increasing interest in neural architecture search (NAS), the significant computational cost of NAS is a hindrance to researchers. Hence, we propose to reduce the cost of NAS using proxy data, i.e., a representative subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Vic Ciesielski , Haytham M. Fayek , Xiaojun Chang

Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Lin , Pichao Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become increasingly popular in the deep learning community recently, mainly because it can provide an opportunity to allow interested users without rich expertise to benefit from the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shiqing Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Neural architecture search can discover neural networks with good performance, and One-Shot approaches are prevalent. One-Shot approaches typically require a supernet with weight sharing and predictors that predict the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chia-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Shin Han , Yuan-Yao Sung , Yi Lee , Hung-Yueh Chiang , Kai-Chiang Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been intensively applied to various graph-based applications. Despite their success, manually designing the well-behaved GNNs requires immense human expertise. And thus it is inefficient to discover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Wentao Zhang , Zheyu Lin , Yu Shen , Yang Li , Zhi Yang , Bin Cui