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Convolutional neural networks have been widely deployed in various application scenarios. In order to extend the applications' boundaries to some accuracy-crucial domains, researchers have been investigating approaches to boost accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Linfeng Zhang , Jiebo Song , Anni Gao , Jingwei Chen , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

Recently, dynamic inference has emerged as a promising way to reduce the computational cost of deep convolutional neural network (CNN). In contrast to static methods (e.g. weight pruning), dynamic inference adaptively adjusts the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zhihang Yuan , Bingzhe Wu , Zheng Liang , Shiwan Zhao , Weichen Bi , Guangyu Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) with an accuracy predictor that predicts the accuracy of candidate architectures has drawn increasing attention due to its simplicity and effectiveness. Previous works usually employ neural network-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural architecture search (NAS), which automates the architectural design process of deep neural networks (DNN), has attracted increasing attention. Multimodal DNNs that necessitate feature fusion from multiple modalities benefit from NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shota Suzuki , Satoshi Ono

This paper introduces neural architecture search (NAS) for the automatic discovery of small models for keyword spotting (KWS) in limited resource environments. We employ a differentiable NAS approach to optimize the structure of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 David Peter , Wolfgang Roth , Franz Pernkopf

Early neural network architectures were designed by so-called "grad student descent". Since then, the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has developed with the goal of algorithmically designing architectures tailored for a dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sam Green , Craig M. Vineyard , Ryan Helinski , Çetin Kaya Koç

Diffusion models have recently shown remarkable generation ability, achieving state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. However, the high computational cost is still a troubling problem for diffusion models. To tackle this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Siao Tang , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Chaoyu Guan , Yansong Tang , Wenwu zhu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool to automatically design deep neural networks for many tasks, including image classification. Due to the significant computational burden of the search phase, most NAS methods have focused…

Prediction-based approaches are widely used in neural architecture search (NAS), where a predictor estimates the performance of candidate architectures to guide selection. However, existing predictors are typically trained via supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liping Deng , MingQing Xiao

One of the key steps in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to estimate the performance of candidate architectures. Existing methods either directly use the validation performance or learn a predictor to estimate the performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Qi Chen , Minli Li , Wei Zeng , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

Weight sharing is a fundamental concept in neural architecture search (NAS), enabling gradient-based methods to explore cell-based architectural spaces significantly faster than traditional black-box approaches. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arjun Krishnakumar , Mahmoud Safari , Frank Hutter

We introduce SalGAN, a deep convolutional neural network for visual saliency prediction trained with adversarial examples. The first stage of the network consists of a generator model whose weights are learned by back-propagation computed…

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Search spaces hallmark the advancement of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Large and complex search spaces with versatile building operators and structures provide more opportunities to brew promising architectures, yet pose severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Bhavna Gopal , Arjun Sridhar , Tunhou Zhang , Yiran Chen

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

A key problem in deep multi-attribute learning is to effectively discover the inter-attribute correlation structures. Typically, the conventional deep multi-attribute learning approaches follow the pipeline of manually designing the network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

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

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

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

The generalization capability of deep neural networks has been substantially improved by applying a wide spectrum of regularization methods, e.g., restricting function space, injecting randomness during training, augmenting data, etc. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Kyungyul Kim , ByeongMoon Ji , Doyoung Yoon , Sangheum Hwang