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Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained significant traction in automating the design of neural networks. To reduce search time, differentiable architecture search (DAS) reframes the traditional paradigm of discrete candidate sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoyun Liu , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuqing Zhao , Penghui Ruan

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing neural architectures by machines, has been considered a key step toward automatic machine learning. One notable NAS branch is the weight-sharing NAS, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guangrun Wang , Changlin Li , Liuchun Yuan , Jiefeng Peng , Xiaoyu Xian , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Liang Lin

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) marks a milestone in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), boasting simplicity and small search costs. However, DARTS still suffers from frequent performance collapse, which happens when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin , Yukang Chen

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has received massive attention in recent years, mainly because it significantly reduces the computational cost through weight sharing and continuous relaxation. However, more recent works find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Miao Zhang , Jilin Hu , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Bin Yang , Gholamreza Haffari

Automated neural network design has received ever-increasing attention with the evolution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially involving their deployment on embedded and mobile platforms. One of the biggest problems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Qingbei Guo , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler , Zhiquan Feng

If NAS methods are solutions, what is the problem? Most existing NAS methods require two-stage parameter optimization. However, performance of the same architecture in the two stages correlates poorly. In this work, we propose a new problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Shoukang Hu , Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Jianping Shi , Xunying Liu , Dahua Lin

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) yields highly efficient gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) by relaxing the discrete operation selection to optimize continuous architecture parameters that maps NAS from the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiuling Zhang , Zhiming Ding

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Recently Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has aroused great interest in both academia and industry, however it remains challenging because of its huge and non-continuous search space. Instead of applying evolutionary algorithm or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xinbang Zhang , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) is a popular method for neural architecture search (NAS), which performs cell-search and utilizes continuous relaxation to improve the search efficiency via gradient-based optimization. The…

In this paper, we investigate the fundamental question: To what extent are gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) techniques applicable to RL? Using the original DARTS as a convenient baseline, we discover that the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yingjie Miao , Xingyou Song , John D. Co-Reyes , Daiyi Peng , Summer Yue , Eugene Brevdo , Aleksandra Faust

In the past few years, Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DNAS) rapidly imposed itself as the trending approach to automate the discovery of deep neural network architectures. This rise is mainly due to the popularity of DARTS, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Alexandre Heuillet , Ahmad Nasser , Hichem Arioui , Hedi Tabia

Conventional neural architecture search (NAS) approaches are based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary strategy, which take more than 3000 GPU hours to find a good model on CIFAR-10. We propose an efficient NAS approach learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Xuanyi Dong , Yi Yang

Transferrable neural architecture search can be viewed as a binary optimization problem where a single optimal path should be selected among candidate paths in each edge within the repeated cell block of the directed a cyclic graph form.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Hyeong Gwon Hong , Pyunghwan Ahn , Junmo Kim

Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) has been applied to automatically search high-performance networks for medical image segmentation. The NAS search space usually contains a network topology level (controlling connections among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yufan He , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu

In this paper, we point out that differential architecture search (DARTS) makes gradient of architecture parameters biased for network weights and architecture parameters are updated in different datasets alternatively in the bi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin

Neural architecture search (NAS) typically consists of three main steps: training a super-network, training and evaluating sampled deep neural networks (DNNs), and training the discovered DNN. Most of the existing efforts speed up some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tien-Ju Yang , Yi-Lun Liao , Vivienne Sze

Albeit being a prevalent architecture searching approach, differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is largely hindered by its substantial memory cost since the entire supernet resides in the memory. This is where the single-path DARTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Xiaoxing Wang , Xiangxiang Chu , Yuda Fan , Zhexi Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have positioned deep learning (DL) as a pivotal technology in fields like computer vision, data mining, and natural language processing. A critical factor in DL performance is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jiaming Yan