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Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising method for automatically design neural architectures. NAS adopts a search strategy to explore the predefined search space to find outstanding performance architecture with the minimum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Chen Wei , Chuang Niu , Yiping Tang , Yue Wang , Haihong Hu , Jimin Liang

Evolutionary computation (EC)-based neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved remarkable performance in the automatic design of neural architectures. However, the high computational cost associated with evaluating searched architectures…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yangyang Li , Guanlong Liu , Ronghua Shang , Licheng Jiao

The evolutionary paradigm has been successfully applied to neural network search(NAS) in recent years. Due to the vast search complexity of the global space, current research mainly seeks to repeatedly stack partial architectures to build…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Juan Zou , Weiwei Jiang , Yizhang Xia , Yuan Liu , Zhanglu Hou

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Dongzhan Zhou , Xinchi Zhou , Wenwei Zhang , Chen Change Loy , Shuai Yi , Xuesen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANNs) refer to a special class of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in which evolution is another fundamental form of adaptation in addition to learning. Evolutionary algorithms are used to adapt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ajith Abraham

Neural architecture search (NAS), the study of automating the discovery of optimal deep neural network architectures for tasks in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing, has seen rapid growth in the machine learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Daniel Cummings , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Anthony Sarah , Maciej Szankin

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

Data-driven, automatic design space exploration of neural accelerator architecture is desirable for specialization and productivity. Previous frameworks focus on sizing the numerical architectural hyper-parameters while neglect searching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yujun Lin , Mengtian Yang , Song Han

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Hui Zhu , Zhulin An , Chuanguang Yang , Kaiqiang Xu , Erhu Zhao , Yongjun Xu

In this paper, we propose Efficient Progressive Neural Architecture Search (EPNAS), a neural architecture search (NAS) that efficiently handles large search space through a novel progressive search policy with performance prediction based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Yanqi Zhou , Peng Wang , Sercan Arik , Haonan Yu , Syed Zawad , Feng Yan , Greg Diamos

This paper introduces Evolutionary Multi-Objective Network Architecture Search (EMNAS) for the first time to optimize neural network architectures in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Autonomous Driving (AD). EMNAS uses genetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nihal Acharya Adde , Alexandra Gianzina , Hanno Gottschalk , Andreas Ebert

Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) has recently received increasing attention by effectively finding high-quality neural architectures, which however consumes high computational cost by training the architecture encoded by each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shangshang Yang , Ye Tian , Xiaoshu Xiang , Shichen Peng , Xingyi Zhang

Evolutionary computation-based neural architecture search (ENAS) is a popular technique for automating architecture design of deep neural networks. Despite its groundbreaking applications, there is no theoretical study for ENAS. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zeqiong Lv , Chao Qian , Gary G. Yen , Yanan Sun

Vanilla neural architecture search using evolutionary algorithms (EA) involves evaluating each architecture by training it from scratch, which is extremely time-consuming. This can be reduced by using a supernet to estimate the fitness of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that enables researchers to automatically explore vast search spaces and discover efficient neural networks. However, NAS suffers from a critical bottleneck, i.e. the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , MengChu Zhou , Mohamed Wahib , Moncef Gabbouj

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods rely on a search strategy for deciding which architectures to evaluate next and a performance estimation strategy for assessing their performance (e.g., using full evaluations, multi-fidelity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Noor Awad , Neeratyoy Mallik , Frank Hutter

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been successfully applied to image tasks with excellent results. However, NAS methods are often complex and tend to converge to local minima as soon as generated architectures seem to yield good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

Architecture search optimizes the structure of a neural network for some task instead of relying on manual authoring. However, it is slow, as each potential architecture is typically trained from scratch. In this paper we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mohan Singamsetti , Anmol Mahajan , Matthew Guzdial

We present ECToNAS, a cost-efficient evolutionary cross-topology neural architecture search algorithm that does not require any pre-trained meta controllers. Our framework is able to select suitable network architectures for different tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Elisabeth J. Schiessler , Roland C. Aydin , Christian J. Cyron