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Most existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are dedicated to and evaluated by the downstream tasks, e.g., image classification in computer vision. However, extensive experiments have shown that, prominent neural architectures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Yuhong Li , Cong Hao , Pan Li , Jinjun Xiong , Deming Chen

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

Multi-task neural architecture search (NAS) enables transferring architectural knowledge among different tasks. However, ranking disorder between the source task and the target task degrades the architecture performance on the downstream…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 TingJie Zhang , HaiLin Liu

Neural Architecture Search remains a very challenging meta-learning problem. Several recent techniques based on parameter-sharing idea have focused on reducing the NAS running time by leveraging proxy models, leading to architectures with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Minsu Cho , Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

In computer vision research, the process of automating architecture engineering, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), has gained substantial interest. Due to the high computational costs, most recent approaches to NAS as well as the few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jovita Lukasik , David Friede , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Margret Keuper

Deep learning has made breakthroughs and substantial in many fields due to its powerful automatic representation capabilities. It has been proven that neural architecture design is crucial to the feature representation of data and the final…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is the game changer in designing robust neural architectures. Architectures designed by NAS outperform or compete with the best manual network designs in terms of accuracy, size, memory footprint and FLOPs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Lars Petersson , Yan Han , Mehrtash Harandi

Neural Architectures Search (NAS) becomes more and more popular over these years. However, NAS-generated models tends to suffer greater vulnerability to various malicious attacks. Lots of robust NAS methods leverage adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

As deep neural networks achieve unprecedented performance in various tasks, neural architecture search (NAS), a research field for designing neural network architectures with automated processes, is actively underway. More recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Youngkee Kim , Soyi Jung , Minseok Choi , Joongheon Kim

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the discovery of neural networks that meet specified criteria, yet its evaluation procedures are often hardcoded, limiting the ability to introduce new metrics. This issue is especially pronounced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Atah Nuh Mih , Jianzhou Wang , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Hung Cao

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enabled the discovery of state-of-the-art architectures in many domains. However, the success of NAS depends on the definition of the search space. Current search spaces are defined as a static sequence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Stanisław Jastrzębski , Quentin de Laroussilhe , Mingxing Tan , Xiao Ma , Neil Houlsby , Andrea Gesmundo

The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Martin Wistuba

Existing neural architecture search (NAS) methods often return an architecture with good search performance but generalizes poorly to the test setting. To achieve better generalization, we propose a novel neighborhood-aware NAS formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xiaofang Wang , Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , Kris M. Kitani

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linnan Wang , Saining Xie , Teng Li , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

The paper provides a comprehensive overview of Neural Architecture Search (NAS), emphasizing its evolution from manual design to automated, computationally-driven approaches. It covers the inception and growth of NAS, highlighting its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Fanfei Meng , Chen-Ao Wang , Lele Zhang

Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Lin , Pichao Wang , Zhenhong Sun , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin