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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

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

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) achieved many breakthroughs in recent years. In spite of its remarkable progress, many algorithms are restricted to particular search spaces. They also lack efficient mechanisms to reuse knowledge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xin Chen , Yawen Duan , Zewei Chen , Hang Xu , Zihao Chen , Xiaodan Liang , Tong Zhang , Zhenguo Li

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 An-Chieh Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Min Sun

In the realm of neural architecture design, achieving high performance is largely reliant on the manual expertise of researchers. Despite the emergence of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a promising technique for automating this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yannis Y. He

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

Recent works (White et al., 2020a; Yan et al., 2020) demonstrate the importance of architecture encodings in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). These encodings encode either structure or computation information of the neural architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shen Yan , Kaiqiang Song , Fei Liu , Mi Zhang

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

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

How to discover and evaluate the true strength of models quickly and accurately is one of the key challenges in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To cope with this problem, we propose an Architecture-Driven Weight Prediction (ADWP) approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-04 XuZhang , ChenjunZhou , BoGu

Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yong Guo , Yin Zheng , Mingkui Tan , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) yields state-of-the-art neural networks that outperform their best manually-designed counterparts. However, previous NAS methods search for architectures under one set of training hyper-parameters (i.e., a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xiaoliang Dai , Alvin Wan , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Zijian He , Zhen Wei , Kan Chen , Yuandong Tian , Matthew Yu , Peter Vajda , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising method for automatically design neural architectures. NAS adopts a search strategy to explore the predefined search space to find outstanding performance architecture with the minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Chen Wei , Chuang Niu , Yiping Tang , Yue Wang , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-15 Francesco Paolo Casale , Jonathan Gordon , Nicolo Fusi

In recent years an increasing number of researchers and practitioners have been suggesting algorithms for large-scale neural network architecture search: genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, learning curve extrapolation, and accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 R. Istrate , F. Scheidegger , G. Mariani , D. Nikolopoulos , C. Bekas , A. C. I. Malossi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising and rapidly evolving research area. Training a large number of neural networks requires an exceptional amount of computational power, which makes NAS unreachable for those researchers who have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nikita Klyuchnikov , Ilya Trofimov , Ekaterina Artemova , Mikhail Salnikov , Maxim Fedorov , Evgeny Burnaev

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

Efficient deployment of neural networks (NN) requires the co-optimization of accuracy and latency. For example, hardware-aware neural architecture search has been used to automatically find NN architectures that satisfy a latency constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah