English
Related papers

Related papers: Variation Matters: from Mitigating to Embracing Ze…

200 papers

Weight sharing has become a de facto standard in neural architecture search because it enables the search to be done on commodity hardware. However, recent works have empirically shown a ranking disorder between the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Kaicheng Yu , Rene Ranftl , Mathieu Salzmann

Evolutionary algorithms (EA) based neural architecture search (NAS) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet for estimating the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

For the goal of automated design of high-performance deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methodology is becoming increasingly important for both academia and industries.Due to the costly stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Shengran Hu , Ran Cheng , Cheng He , Zhichao Lu , Jing Wang , Miao Zhang

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design process of high-performing architectures, but remains bottlenecked by expensive performance evaluation. Most existing studies that achieve faster evaluation are mostly tied to cell-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shiwen Qin , Alexander Auras , Shay B. Cohen , Elliot J. Crowley , Michael Moeller , Linus Ericsson , Jovita Lukasik

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shen Yan , Biyi Fang , Faen Zhang , Yu Zheng , Xiao Zeng , Hui Xu , Mi Zhang

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) 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

Zero-cost proxies are nowadays frequently studied and used to search for neural architectures. They show an impressive ability to predict the performance of architectures by making use of their untrained weights. These techniques allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jovita Lukasik , Michael Moeller , Margret Keuper

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing neural architectures by machines, has been considered a key step toward automatic machine learning. One notable NAS branch is the weight-sharing NAS, which significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guangrun Wang , Changlin Li , Liuchun Yuan , Jiefeng Peng , Xiaoyu Xian , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Liang Lin

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful approach for automating neural network design. However, existing NAS methods face critical limitations in real-world deployments: architectures lack adaptability across scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Maolin Wang , Tianshuo Wei , Sheng Zhang , Ruocheng Guo , Wanyu Wang , Shanshan Ye , Lixin Zou , Xuetao Wei , Xiangyu Zhao

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful tool for many non-differentiable search related problems such as adversarial games. However, the performance of such approach highly depends on the order of the nodes that are considered at each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mehraveh Javan Roshtkhari , Matthew Toews , Marco Pedersoli

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods significantly reduce the search cost by considering the whole search space as one network, which only needs to be trained once. However, current methods select each operation independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Xiu Su , Tao Huang , Yanxi Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Chang Xu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated its efficacy in computer vision and potential for ranking systems. However, prior work focused on academic problems, which are evaluated at small scale under well-controlled fixed baselines.…

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automate architecture engineering in neural networks. This often requires a high computational overhead to evaluate a number of candidate networks from the set of all possible networks in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Vic Ciesielski , Haytham M. Fayek , Xiaojun Chang

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

Neural architecture search (NAS) searches architectures automatically for given tasks, e.g., image classification and language modeling. Improving the search efficiency and effectiveness have attracted increasing attention in recent years.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yao Shu , Wei Wang , Shaofeng Cai

Despite the empirical success of neural architecture search (NAS) in deep learning applications, the optimality, reproducibility and cost of NAS schemes remain hard to assess. In this paper, we propose Generative Adversarial NAS (GA-NAS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei , Fred X. Han , Di Niu , Mohammad Salameh , Keith Mills , Shuo Lian , Wei Lu , Shangling Jui

In this paper, we present a general and effective framework for Neural Architecture Search (NAS), named PredNAS. The motivation is that given a differentiable performance estimation function, we can directly optimize the architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Liuchun Yuan , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz