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Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) typically optimises the architecture search process by exploiting the network or gradient properties at initialisation through zero-cost proxies. The existing proxies often rely on labelled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rohan Asthana , Joschua Conrad , Maurits Ortmanns , Vasileios Belagiannis

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

Understanding and modelling the performance of neural architectures is key to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Performance predictors have seen widespread use in low-cost NAS and achieve high ranking correlations between predicted and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Fred X. Han , Keith G. Mills , Fabian Chudak , Parsa Riahi , Mohammad Salameh , Jialin Zhang , Wei Lu , Shangling Jui , Di Niu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is widely used to automatically obtain the neural network with the best performance among a large number of candidate architectures. To reduce the search time, zero-shot NAS aims at designing training-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Guihong Li , Yuedong Yang , Kartikeya Bhardwaj , Radu Marculescu

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

The fundamental problem in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to efficiently find high-performing architectures from a given search space. We propose a simple but powerful method which we call FEAR, for ranking architectures in any search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Debadeepta Dey , Shital Shah , Sebastien Bubeck

Performing analytical tasks over graph data has become increasingly interesting due to the ubiquity and large availability of relational information. However, unlike images or sentences, there is no notion of sequence in networks. Nodes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Matheus Nunes , Gisele L. Pappa

Training-free metrics (a.k.a. zero-cost proxies) are widely used to avoid resource-intensive neural network training, especially in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Recent studies show that existing training-free metrics have several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Haytham M. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

Recently, predictor-based algorithms emerged as a promising approach for neural architecture search (NAS). For NAS, we typically have to calculate the validation accuracy of a large number of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), what is…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful automatic alternative to manual design of a neural network. In the zero-shot version, a fast ranking function is used to compare architectures without training them. The outputs of the ranking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hua Zheng , Kuang-Hung Liu , Igor Fedorov , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Wei Wen

Neural architecture search has attracted wide attentions in both academia and industry. To accelerate it, researchers proposed weight-sharing methods which first train a super-network to reuse computation among different operators, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Longhui Wei , Yuhui Xu , Qi Tian

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

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

Graph neural architecture search (NAS) has gained popularity in automatically designing powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) with relieving human efforts. However, existing graph NAS methods mainly work under the homophily assumption and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Xin Zheng , Miao Zhang , Chunyang Chen , Qin Zhang , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan

Aiming at two molecular graph datasets and one protein association subgraph dataset in OGB graph classification task, we design a graph neural network framework for graph classification task by introducing PAS(Pooling Architecture Search).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Xu Wang , Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

Neural predictors are effective in boosting the time-consuming performance evaluation stage in neural architecture search (NAS), owing to their direct estimation of unseen architectures. Despite the effectiveness, training a powerful neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Han Ji , Yuqi Feng , Yanan Sun

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has enabled the possibility of automated machine learning by streamlining the manual development of deep neural network architectures defining a search space, search strategy, and performance estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Muhtadyuzzaman Syed , Arvind Akpuram Srinivasan

Time-intensive performance evaluations significantly impede progress in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To address this, neural predictors leverage surrogate models trained on proxy datasets, allowing for direct performance predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jindi Lv , Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Qing Ye , Wentao Feng , Jiancheng Lv