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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a de facto approach in the recent trend of AutoML to design deep neural networks (DNNs). Efficient or near-zero-cost NAS proxies are further proposed to address the demanding computational issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuhong Li , Jiajie Li , Cong Han , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

A promising alternative to the computationally expensive Neural Architecture Search (NAS) involves the development of Zero Cost Proxies (ZCPs), which correlate well with trained performance, but can be computed through a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Richard Goldman , Varun Komperla , Thomas Ploetz , Harish Haresamudram

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

Training-free Neural Architecture Search (NAS) efficiently identifies high-performing neural networks using zero-cost (ZC) proxies. Unlike multi-shot and one-shot NAS approaches, ZC-NAS is both (i) time-efficient, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sofia Casarin , Sergio Escalera , Oswald Lanz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has driven innovations and created new opportunities across various sectors. However, leveraging domain-specific knowledge often requires automated tools to design and configure models effectively. In the case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) frameworks have been successful in finding optimal architectures for given conditions (e.g., performance or latency). However, they search for optimal architectures in terms of their performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Hyeonjeong Ha , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising approach for automatically designing neural network architectures. However, the architecture estimation of NAS is computationally expensive and time-consuming because of training multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Kun Jing , Luoyu Chen , Jungang Xu , Jianwei Tai , Yiyu Wang , Shuaimin Li

Despite the increasing interest in neural architecture search (NAS), the significant computational cost of NAS is a hindrance to researchers. Hence, we propose to reduce the cost of NAS using proxy data, i.e., a representative subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Due to the recent advances on Neural Architecture Search (NAS), it gains popularity in designing best networks for specific tasks. Although it shows promising results on many benchmarks and competitions, NAS still suffers from its demanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Minje Park

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hua Zheng , Kuang-Hung Liu , Igor Fedorov , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Wei Wen

Effective information searching is essential for enhancing the reasoning and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recent research has explored using reinforcement learning (RL) to improve LLMs' search capabilities by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hao Sun , Zile Qiao , Jiayan Guo , Xuanbo Fan , Yingyan Hou , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Yan Zhang , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

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) has made tremendous progress in the automatic design of effective neural network structures but suffers from a heavy computational burden. One-shot NAS significantly alleviates the burden through weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Peijie Dong , Xin Niu , Lujun Li , Zhiliang Tian , Xiaodong Wang , Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Dongsheng Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the importance of candidate operations and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaoxing Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Jianlin Su , Xiaokang Yang

Transformer-based pre-trained language models like BERT and its variants have recently achieved promising performance in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the conventional paradigm constructs the backbone by purely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiahui Gao , Hang Xu , Han Shi , Xiaozhe Ren , Philip L. H. Yu , Xiaodan Liang , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li

In prediction-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS), performance indicators derived from graph convolutional networks have shown remarkable success. These indicators, achieved by representing feed-forward structures as component graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Minh Le , Nhan Nguyen , Ngoc Hoang Luong

Natural language prompts have been shown to facilitate cross-task generalization for large language models. However, with no or limited labeled examples, the cross-task performance is highly sensitive to the choice of prompts, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Chonghua Liao , Yanan Zheng , Zhilin Yang

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides a promising avenue for automating the complex design of deep learning (DL) models. However, current differentiable NAS methods often face constraints in efficiency, operation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lunchen Xie , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Gambella , Danilo Ardagna , Manual Roveri , Matteo Matteucci , Qingjiang Shi