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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) 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

In the recent past, neural architecture search (NAS) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industries. Despite the steady stream of impressive empirical results, most existing NAS algorithms are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Shengran Hu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He , Zhichao Lu

Predictor-based algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tasks. However, these methods suffer from high computation costs, as training the performance predictor usually requires training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ruochen Wang , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

In this paper, we present a general and effective framework for Neural Architecture Search (NAS), named PredNAS. The motivation is that given a differentiable performance estimation function, we can directly optimize the architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Liuchun Yuan , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

One of the primary challenges impeding the progress of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is its extensive reliance on exorbitant computational resources. NAS benchmarks aim to simulate runs of NAS experiments at zero cost, remediating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Afzal Ahmad , Linfeng Du , Zhiyao Xie , Wei Zhang

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) faces a challenge in balancing the exploration of expressive, broad search spaces that enable architectural innovation with the need for efficient evaluation of architectures to effectively search such…

Due to their high computational efficiency on a continuous space, gradient optimization methods have shown great potential in the neural architecture search (NAS) domain. The mapping of network representation from the discrete space to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Jian Li , Yong Liu , Jiankun Liu , Weiping Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been popularly used for analyzing non-Euclidean data such as social network data and biological data. Despite their success, the design of graph neural networks requires a lot of manual work and domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yang Gao , Hong Yang , Peng Zhang , Chuan Zhou , Yue Hu

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

This work proposes a novel Graph-based neural ArchiTecture Encoding Scheme, a.k.a. GATES, to improve the predictor-based neural architecture search. Specifically, different from existing graph-based schemes, GATES models the operations as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Xuefei Ning , Yin Zheng , Tianchen Zhao , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

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

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) frameworks have been successful in finding optimal architectures for given conditions (e.g., performance or latency). However, they search for optimal architectures in terms of their performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hyeonjeong Ha , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms adopt neural predictors to accelerate the architecture search. The capability of neural predictors to accurately predict the performance metrics of neural architecture is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chen Wei , Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Haihong Hu , Yue Wang , Jimin Liang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can automatically design architectures for deep neural networks (DNNs) and has become one of the hottest research topics in the current machine learning community. However, NAS is often computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiangning Xie , Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Mengjie Zhang , Kay Chen Tan

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Determining the performance of a Deep Neural Network during Neural Architecture Search processes is essential for identifying optimal architectures and hyperparameters. Traditionally, this process requires training and evaluation of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Paolo Romano , Penousal Machado