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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

A majority of recent developments in neural architecture search (NAS) have been aimed at decreasing the computational cost of various techniques without affecting their final performance. Towards this goal, several low-fidelity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Vishak Prasad C , Colin White , Paarth Jain , Sibasis Nayak , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

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

Modern Neural Architecture Search methods have repeatedly broken state-of-the-art results for several disciplines. The super-network, a central component of many such methods, enables quick estimates of accuracy or loss statistics for any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Kevin Alexander Laube , Andreas Zell

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 An-Chieh Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Min Sun

Neural network-based semantic segmentation has achieved remarkable results when large amounts of annotated data are available, that is, in the supervised case. However, such data is expensive to collect and so methods have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Xueqing Deng , Yi Zhu , Yuxin Tian , Shawn Newsam

Searching for the architecture cells is a dominant paradigm in NAS. However, little attention has been devoted to the analysis of the cell-based search spaces even though it is highly important for the continual development of NAS. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-18 Xingchen Wan , Binxin Ru , Pedro M. Esperança , Zhenguo Li

One of the key challenges in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to efficiently rank the performances of architectures. The mainstream assessment of performance rankers uses ranking correlations (e.g., Kendall's tau), which pay equal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yuge Zhang , Quanlu Zhang , Li Lyna Zhang , Yaming Yang , Chenqian Yan , Xiaotian Gao , Yuqing Yang

One-shot Neural architecture search (One-shot NAS) has been proposed as a time-efficient approach to obtain optimal subnet architectures and weights under different complexity cases by training only once. However, the subnet performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Mingyang Zhang , Xinyi Yu , Haodong Zhao , Linlin Ou

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), aiming at automatically designing network architectures by machines, is hoped and expected to bring about a new revolution in machine learning. Despite these high expectation, the effectiveness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Changlin Li , Jiefeng Peng , Liuchun Yuan , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin , Xiaojun Chang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the design of deep neural networks. However, existing NAS techniques often focus on maximising accuracy, neglecting model efficiency. This limitation restricts their use in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Srikanth Thudumu , Hy Nguyen , Hung Du , Nhat Duong , Zafaryab Rasool , Rena Logothetis , Scott Barnett , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

With the rapid development of neural architecture search (NAS), researchers found powerful network architectures for a wide range of vision tasks. However, it remains unclear if the searched architecture can transfer across different types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has attracted growing interest. To reduce the search cost, recent work has explored weight sharing across models and made major progress in One-Shot NAS. However, it has been observed that a model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Xia , Xuefeng Xiao , Xing Wang , Min Zheng

Mobile and edge computing devices for always-on classification tasks require energy-efficient neural network architectures. In this paper we present several changes to neural architecture searches (NAS) that improve the chance of success in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Daniel T. Speckhard , Karolis Misiunas , Sagi Perel , Tenghui Zhu , Simon Carlile , Malcolm Slaney

One-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to minimize the computational expense of discovering state-of-the-art models. However, in the past year attention has been drawn to the comparable performance of naive random search across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Rob Geada , Dennis Prangle , Andrew Stephen McGough

Conducting efficient performance estimations of neural architectures is a major challenge in neural architecture search (NAS). To reduce the architecture training costs in NAS, one-shot estimators (OSEs) amortize the architecture training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xuefei Ning , Changcheng Tang , Wenshuo Li , Zixuan Zhou , Shuang Liang , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

The emergence of neural architecture search (NAS) has greatly advanced the research on network design. Recent proposals such as gradient-based methods or one-shot approaches significantly boost the efficiency of NAS. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Yizhou Zhou , Xiaoyan Sun , Chong Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha , Wenjun Zeng

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