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Efficient search is a core issue in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). It is difficult for conventional NAS algorithms to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks like ImageNet. In general, the cost of GPU hours for NAS grows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan

Recent breakthroughs of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) extend the field's research scope towards a broader range of vision tasks and more diversified search spaces. While existing NAS methods mostly design architectures on a single task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yawen Duan , Xin Chen , Hang Xu , Zewei Chen , Xiaodan Liang , Tong Zhang , Zhenguo Li

Gradient-based methods for the distributed training of residual networks (ResNets) typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the error gradient to update model parameters, which becomes time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Qi Sun , Hexin Dong , Zewei Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Bin Dong

Auxiliary learning is an effective method for enhancing the generalization capabilities of trained models, particularly when dealing with small datasets. However, this approach may present several difficulties: (i) optimizing multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Aviv Shamsian , Aviv Navon , Neta Glazer , Kenji Kawaguchi , Gal Chechik , Ethan Fetaya

Auxiliary tasks facilitate learning in situations where data is scarce or the principal task of interest is extremely complex. This idea is primarily inspired by the improved generalization capability induced by solving multiple tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Geri Skenderi , Luigi Capogrosso , Andrea Toaiari , Matteo Denitto , Franco Fummi , Simone Melzi

This paper proposes a novel cell-based neural architecture search algorithm (NAS), which completely alleviates the expensive costs of data labeling inherited from supervised learning. Our algorithm capitalizes on the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nam Nguyen , J. Morris Chang

The recurrent mechanism has recently been introduced into U-Net in various medical image segmentation tasks. Existing studies have focused on promoting network recursion via reusing building blocks. Although network parameters could be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Xinyi Wang , Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Dongnan Liu , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

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

Neural architecture search has proven to be a powerful approach to designing and refining neural networks, often boosting their performance and efficiency over manually-designed variations, but comes with computational overhead. While there…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides state-of-the-art results when trained on well-curated datasets with annotated labels. However, annotating data or even having balanced number of samples can be a luxury for practitioners from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Aleksandr Timofeev , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

Conversational analysis systems are trained using noisy human labels and often require heavy preprocessing during multi-modal feature extraction. Using noisy labels in single-task learning increases the risk of over-fitting. Auxiliary tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Joshua Yee Kim , Tongliang Liu , Kalina Yacef

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce annotation costs by strategically selecting the most informative samples for labeling. However, most active learning methods struggle in the low-budget regime where only a few labeled examples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Netta Shafir , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

This paper aims to explore the feasibility of neural architecture search (NAS) given only a pre-trained model without using any original training data. This is an important circumstance for privacy protection, bias avoidance, etc., in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Yun Long , Eric Xing , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Chas Leichner

Energy consumption from the selection, training, and deployment of deep learning models has seen a significant uptick recently. This work aims to facilitate the design of energy-efficient deep learning models that require less computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Pedram Bakhtiarifard , Christian Igel , Raghavendra Selvan

We propose to incorporate neural architecture search (NAS) into general-purpose multi-task learning (GP-MTL). Existing NAS methods typically define different search spaces according to different tasks. In order to adapt to different task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yuan Gao , Haoping Bai , Zequn Jie , Jiayi Ma , Kui Jia , Wei Liu

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) is the game changer in designing robust neural architectures. Architectures designed by NAS outperform or compete with the best manual network designs in terms of accuracy, size, memory footprint and FLOPs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Lars Petersson , Yan Han , Mehrtash Harandi

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

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

While deep learning has been very beneficial in data-rich settings, tasks with smaller training set often resort to pre-training or multitask learning to leverage data from other tasks. In this case, careful consideration is needed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Lucio M. Dery , Yann Dauphin , David Grangier