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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Albert Shaw , Wei Wei , Weiyang Liu , Le Song , Bo Dai

Deep feedforward and recurrent networks have achieved impressive results in many perception and language processing applications. This success is partially attributed to architectural innovations such as convolutional and long short-term…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Arvind Neelakantan , Luke Vilnis , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Lukasz Kaiser , Karol Kurach , James Martens

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

An effective and efficient architecture performance evaluation scheme is essential for the success of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To save computational cost, most of existing NAS algorithms often train and evaluate intermediate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yixing Xu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Shangling Jui , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

Diffusion models (DMs) are powerful generative models capable of producing high-fidelity images but are constrained by high computational costs due to iterative multi-step inference. While Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can optimize DMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hongtao Huang , Xiaojun Chang , Lina Yao

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) methods co-train billions of architectures in a supernet and estimate their potential accuracy using the network weights detached from the supernet. However, the ranking correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiefeng Peng , Jiqi Zhang , Changlin Li , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained widespread attention for its transformative potential in deep learning model design. However, the vast and complex search space of NAS leads to significant computational and time costs. Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingye Zhou , Caiyang Yu , Chenwei Tang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as one successful technique to find robust deep neural network (DNN) architectures. However, most existing robustness evaluations in NAS only consider $l_{\infty}$ norm-based adversarial noises.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Jialiang Sun , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaoqian Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been extensively studied in the past few years. A popular approach is to represent each neural architecture in the search space as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and then search over all DAGs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Colin White , Willie Neiswanger , Sam Nolen , Yash Savani

Designing deep networks that meet strict latency and accuracy constraints on edge accelerators increasingly relies on hardware-aware optimization, including neural architecture search (NAS) guided by device-level metrics. Yet most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Parampuneet Kaur Thind , Vaibhav Katturu , Giacomo Zema , Roberto Del Prete

This paper introduces the notion of ``Initial Alignment'' (INAL) between a neural network at initialization and a target function. It is proved that if a network and a Boolean target function do not have a noticeable INAL, then noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Emmanuel Abbe , Elisabetta Cornacchia , Jan Hązła , Christopher Marquis

Recently proposed neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms adopt neural predictors to accelerate the architecture search. The capability of neural predictors to accurately predict the performance metrics of neural architecture is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chen Wei , Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Haihong Hu , Yue Wang , Jimin Liang

We propose Stochastic Neural Architecture Search (SNAS), an economical end-to-end solution to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that trains neural operation parameters and architecture distribution parameters in same round of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Liang Lin

Satisfying the high computation demand of modern deep learning architectures is challenging for achieving low inference latency. The current approaches in decreasing latency only increase parallelism within a layer. This is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ramyad Hadidi , Jiashen Cao , Michael S. Ryoo , Hyesoon Kim

The efficient, automated search for well-performing neural architectures (NAS) has drawn increasing attention in the recent past. Thereby, the predominant research objective is to reduce the necessity of costly evaluations of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jovita Lukasik , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically excavate the optimal network architecture with superior test performance. Recent neural architecture search (NAS) approaches rely on validation loss or accuracy to find the superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Joonhyun Jeong , Joonsang Yu , Geondo Park , Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo

Neural architecture search (NAS) has fostered various fields of machine learning. Despite its prominent dedications, many have criticized the intrinsic limitations of high computational cost. We aim to ameliorate this by proposing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Kwanghee Choi , Minyoung Choe , Hyelee Lee

The recent progress in neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed scaling the automated design of neural architectures to real-world domains, such as object detection and semantic segmentation. However, one prerequisite for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Thomas Elsken , Benedikt Staffler , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Frank Hutter

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) substantially improves the search efficiency by training one supernet to estimate the performance of every possible child architecture (i.e., subnet). However, the inconsistency of characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xin He , Jiangchao Yao , Yuxin Wang , Zhenheng Tang , Ka Chu Cheung , Simon See , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

Practical use of neural networks often involves requirements on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find networks under such requirements is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor