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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

On-device ML accelerators are becoming a standard in modern mobile system-on-chips (SoC). Neural architecture search (NAS) comes to the rescue for efficiently utilizing the high compute throughput offered by these accelerators. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Berkin Akin , Suyog Gupta , Yun Long , Anton Spiridonov , Zhuo Wang , Marie White , Hao Xu , Ping Zhou , Yanqi Zhou

A fundamental question lies in almost every application of deep neural networks: what is the optimal neural architecture given a specific dataset? Recently, several Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks have been developed that use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Weiwen Jiang , Xinyi Zhang , Edwin H. -M. Sha , Lei Yang , Qingfeng Zhuge , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Neural Architecture Search remains a very challenging meta-learning problem. Several recent techniques based on parameter-sharing idea have focused on reducing the NAS running time by leveraging proxy models, leading to architectures with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Minsu Cho , Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) often trains and evaluates a large number of architectures. Recent predictor-based NAS approaches attempt to alleviate such heavy computation costs with two key steps: sampling some architecture-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junru Wu , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Ye Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Mei Chen , Lu Yuan

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

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 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

Conducting efficient performance estimations of neural architectures is a major challenge in neural architecture search (NAS). To reduce the architecture training costs in NAS, one-shot estimators (OSEs) amortize the architecture training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Zixuan Zhou , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful framework for automatically discovering neural architectures that balance accuracy and efficiency. However, as AI transitions from static benchmarks to real-world deployment, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Matteo Gambella , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Data-driven, automatic design space exploration of neural accelerator architecture is desirable for specialization and productivity. Previous frameworks focus on sizing the numerical architectural hyper-parameters while neglect searching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yujun Lin , Mengtian Yang , Song Han

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

We propose a novel hardware and software co-exploration framework for efficient neural architecture search (NAS). Different from existing hardware-aware NAS which assumes a fixed hardware design and explores the neural architecture search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Weiwen Jiang , Lei Yang , Edwin Sha , Qingfeng Zhuge , Shouzhen Gu , Sakyasingha Dasgupta , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

This work presents a novel approach to neural architecture search (NAS) that aims to reduce energy costs and increase carbon efficiency during the model design process. The proposed framework, called carbon-efficient NAS (CE-NAS), consists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yiyang Zhao , Tian Guo

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the discovery of neural networks that meet specified criteria, yet its evaluation procedures are often hardcoded, limiting the ability to introduce new metrics. This issue is especially pronounced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Atah Nuh Mih , Jianzhou Wang , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Hung Cao