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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), but its performance is highly sensitive to the quality of training problems. This sensitivity stems from the non-stationarity of RL:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ningyuan Yang , Weihua Du , Weiwei Sun , Sean Welleck , Yiming Yang

As progress is made on training machine learning models on incrementally expanding classification tasks (i.e., incremental learning), a next step is to translate this progress to industry expectations. One technique missing from incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 James Seale Smith , Zachary Seymour , Han-Pang Chiu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become a common approach to developing and discovering new neural architectures for different target platforms and purposes. However, scanning the search space is comprised of long training processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tal Hakim

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

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In essence, a neural network is an arbitrary differentiable, parametrized function. Choosing a neural network architecture for any task is as complex as searching the space of those functions. For the last few years, 'neural architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 George Philipp

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Neural architecture search has been shown to hold great promise towards the automation of deep learning. However in spite of its potential, neural architecture search remains quite costly. To this point, we propose a novel gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Efi Kokiopoulou , Anja Hauth , Luciano Sbaiz , Andrea Gesmundo , Gabor Bartok , Jesse Berent

Neural architecture search (NAS) is proposed to automate the architecture design process and attracts overwhelming interest from both academia and industry. However, it is confronted with overfitting issue due to the high-dimensional search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yang Jiang , Cong Zhao , Zeyang Dou , Lei Pang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool for automating effective image processing DNN designing. The ranking has been advocated to design an efficient performance predictor for NAS. The previous contrastive method solves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Bicheng Guo , Tao Chen , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Peng Ye , Jiming Chen

Recent state-of-the-art methods for neural architecture search (NAS) exploit gradient-based optimization by relaxing the problem into continuous optimization over architectures and shared-weights, a noisy process that remains poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Liam Li , Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Early methods in the rapidly developing field of neural architecture search (NAS) required fully training thousands of neural networks. To reduce this extreme computational cost, dozens of techniques have since been proposed to predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Colin White , Arber Zela , Binxin Ru , Yang Liu , Frank Hutter

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Guohao Li , Guocheng Qian , Itzel C. Delgadillo , Matthias Müller , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown promise towards automating neural network design for a given task, but it is computationally demanding due to training costs associated with evaluating a large number of architectures to find the…

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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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been used recently to achieve improved performance in various tasks and most prominently in image classification. Yet, current search strategies rely on large labeled datasets, which limit their usage in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sapir Kaplan , Raja Giryes

Network alignment (NA) is the task of discovering node correspondences across different networks. Although NA methods have achieved remarkable success in a myriad of scenarios, their satisfactory performance is not without prior anchor link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jin-Duk Park , Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin , Xin Cao

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 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

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

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) offer a mathematically grounded framework to quantify the uncertainty of model predictions but come with a prohibitive computation cost for both training and inference. In this work, we show a novel network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Duo Wang , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins