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We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has received massive attention in recent years, mainly because it significantly reduces the computational cost through weight sharing and continuous relaxation. However, more recent works find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Miao Zhang , Jilin Hu , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Bin Yang , Gholamreza Haffari

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search is one of the most popular Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods for its search efficiency and simplicity, accomplished by jointly optimizing the model weight and architecture parameters in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiangning Chen , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful tool for automating architecture design. One-Shot NAS techniques, such as DARTS, have gained substantial popularity due to their combination of search efficiency with simplicity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides efficient, gradient-based methods for automatically designing neural networks, yet its adoption remains limited in practice. We present MIDAS, a novel approach that modernizes DARTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Konstanty Subbotko

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

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has significantly promoted the development of NAS techniques because of its high search efficiency and effectiveness but suffers from performance collapse. In this paper, we make efforts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xuanyang Zhang , Yonggang Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Yongtao Wang , Jian Sun

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) uses a continuous relaxation of network representation and dramatically accelerates Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by almost thousands of times in GPU-day. However, the searching process of DARTS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Huiqun Wang , Ruijie Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Designing effective neural networks is a cornerstone of deep learning, and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful tool for automating this process. Among the existing NAS approaches, Differentiable Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Pengjin Wu , Ferrante Neri , Zhenhua Feng

Recently neural architecture search(NAS) has been successfully used in image classification, natural language processing, and automatic speech recognition(ASR) tasks for finding the state-of-the-art(SOTA) architectures than those…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Yukun Liu , Ta Li , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Typically, deep learning architectures are handcrafted for their respective learning problem. As an alternative, neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed where the architecture's structure is learned in an additional optimization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Nils Gessert , Alexander Schlaefer

In this paper, we investigate the fundamental question: To what extent are gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) techniques applicable to RL? Using the original DARTS as a convenient baseline, we discover that the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yingjie Miao , Xingyou Song , John D. Co-Reyes , Daiyi Peng , Summer Yue , Eugene Brevdo , Aleksandra Faust

Improving the efficiency of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a challenging but significant task that has received much attention. Previous works mainly adopted the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) and improved its search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chongjun Tu , Peng Ye , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Baopu Li , Wanli Ouyang

\textit{Differentiable ARchiTecture Search} (DARTS) has recently become the mainstream of neural architecture search (NAS) due to its efficiency and simplicity. With a gradient-based bi-level optimization, DARTS alternately optimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miao Zhang , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Reza Haffari

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), the process of automating architecture engineering, is an appealing next step to advancing end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), replacing expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Huahuan Zheng , Keyu An , Zhijian Ou

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained enormous popularity in the field of artificial intelligence due to their low power consumption. However, the majority of SNN methods directly inherit the structure of Artificial Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilei Man , Linhai Xie , Shushan Qiao , Yumei Zhou , Delong Shang

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have positioned deep learning (DL) as a pivotal technology in fields like computer vision, data mining, and natural language processing. A critical factor in DL performance is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Jiaming Yan

In neural architecture search (NAS), differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has recently attracted much attention due to its high efficiency. It defines an over-parameterized network with mixed edges, each of which represents all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Kengo Machida , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda , Taiji Suzuki

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method but suffers from robustness, generalization, and discrepancy issues. Many efforts have been made towards the performance collapse issue…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yanlin Zhou , Mostafa El-Khamy , Kee-Bong Song

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has now become one of the mainstream paradigms of neural architecture search. However, it largely suffers from the well-known performance collapse issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang