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The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Designing convolutional neural networks (CNN) for mobile devices is challenging because mobile models need to be small and fast, yet still accurate. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to design and improve mobile CNNs on all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mingxing Tan , Bo Chen , Ruoming Pang , Vijay Vasudevan , Mark Sandler , Andrew Howard , Quoc V. Le

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

Neural architecture search (NAS) recently attracts much research attention because of its ability to identify better architectures than handcrafted ones. However, many NAS methods, which optimize the search process in a discrete search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Quanming Yao , Ju Xu , Wei-Wei Tu , Zhanxing Zhu

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

The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

The field of Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has gained significant attention due to its potential to enable intelligent applications on resource-constrained devices. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the advancements in efficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Minh Tri Lê , Pierre Wolinski , Julyan Arbel

On-device ML accelerators are becoming a standard in modern mobile system-on-chips (SoC). Neural architecture search (NAS) comes to the rescue for efficiently utilizing the high compute throughput offered by these accelerators. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Berkin Akin , Suyog Gupta , Yun Long , Anton Spiridonov , Zhuo Wang , Marie White , Hao Xu , Ping Zhou , Yanqi Zhou

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically find effective architectures within a predefined search space. However, the search space is often extremely large. As a result, directly searching in such a large search space is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yaofo Chen , Yong Guo , Daihai Liao , Fanbing Lv , Hengjie Song , James Tin-Yau Kwok , Mingkui Tan

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most promising techniques for designing efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for resource-constrained devices. Surrogate models play a crucial role in hardware-aware NAS as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Azaz-Ur-Rehman Nasir , Samroz Ahmad Shoaib , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Vasco Lopes , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly regarded for their energy efficiency, inherent activation sparsity, and suitability for real-time processing in edge devices. However, most current SNN methods adopt architectures resembling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yesmine Abdennadher , Giovanni Perin , Riccardo Mazzieri , Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

3D convolution neural networks (CNN) have been proved very successful in parsing organs or tumours in 3D medical images, but it remains sophisticated and time-consuming to choose or design proper 3D networks given different task contexts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Qihang Yu , Dong Yang , Holger Roth , Yutong Bai , Yixiao Zhang , Alan L. Yuille , Daguang Xu

Deformable Attention Transformers (DAT) have shown remarkable performance in computer vision tasks by adaptively focusing on informative image regions. However, their data-dependent sampling mechanism introduces irregular memory access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wendong Mao , Mingfan Zhao , Jianfeng Guan , Qiwei Dong , Zhongfeng Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful technique for discovering high-performing CNN architectures, but most existing methods rely on costly training or extensive sampling. Zero-shot NAS offers a training-free alternative by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ye Qiao , Jingcheng Li , Haocheng Xu , Sitao Huang

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

Many hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been developed to optimize the topology of neural networks (NN) with the joint objectives of higher accuracy and lower latency. Recently, both accuracy and latency predictors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Can we automatically design a Convolutional Network (ConvNet) with the highest image classification accuracy under the latency constraint of a mobile device? Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ConvNet design is a challenging problem due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Dimitrios Stamoulis , Ruizhou Ding , Di Wang , Dimitrios Lymberopoulos , Bodhi Priyantha , Jie Liu , Diana Marculescu

Architectures obtained by Neural Architecture Search (NAS) have achieved highly competitive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the prohibitive computation demand of forward-backward propagation in deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Lang Tang , Baochang Zhang , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian