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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically excavate the optimal network architecture with superior test performance. Recent neural architecture search (NAS) approaches rely on validation loss or accuracy to find the superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Joonhyun Jeong , Joonsang Yu , Geondo Park , Dongyoon Han , YoungJoon Yoo

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) is a technique used to automatically design the architecture of a neural network for a specific task and target hardware. However, evaluating the performance of candidate architectures is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Nilotpal Sinha , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Anis Kacem , Peyman Rostami , Carl Shneider , Djamila Aouada

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) was first proposed to achieve state-of-the-art performance through the discovery of new architecture patterns, without human intervention. An over-reliance on expert knowledge in the search space design has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Binxin Ru , Pedro Esperanca , Fabio Carlucci

In neural architecture search (NAS), the space of neural network architectures is automatically explored to maximize predictive accuracy for a given task. Despite the success of recent approaches, most existing methods cannot be directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-15 Francesco Paolo Casale , Jonathan Gordon , Nicolo Fusi

The Transformer architecture is superior to RNN-based models in computational efficiency. Recently, GPT and BERT demonstrate the efficacy of Transformer models on various NLP tasks using pre-trained language models on large-scale corpora.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chenguang Wang , Mu Li , Alexander J. Smola

As we advance in the fast-growing era of Machine Learning, various new and more complex neural architectures are arising to tackle problem more efficiently. On the one hand their efficient usage requires advanced knowledge and expertise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Léo Pouy , Fouad Khenfri , Patrick Leserf , Chokri Mraidha , Cherif Larouci

Current neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms still require expert knowledge and effort to design a search space for network construction. In this paper, we consider automating the search space design to minimize human interference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daquan Zhou , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaochen Lian , Linjie Yang , Yujing Xue , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

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

This paper addresses the efficiency challenge of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by formulating the task as a ranking problem. Previous methods require numerous training examples to estimate the accurate performance of architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chi Hu , Chenglong Wang , Xiangnan Ma , Xia Meng , Yinqiao Li , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Changliang Li

The recently proposed training-free NAS methods abandon the training phase and design various zero-cost proxies as scores to identify excellent architectures, arousing extreme computational efficiency for neural architecture search. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Miao Zhang , Wei Huang , Li Wang

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

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

Neural networks are powerful models that have a remarkable ability to extract patterns that are too complex to be noticed by humans or other machine learning models. Neural networks are the first class of models that can train end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Ibrahim Alshubaily

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been shown to outperform hand-designed models and help to democratize AI. However, NAS methods often start from scratch with each new task, making them computationally expensive and limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Training-free metrics (a.k.a. zero-cost proxies) are widely used to avoid resource-intensive neural network training, especially in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Recent studies show that existing training-free metrics have several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , Haytham M. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved great success in natural language processing. Most of PLMs follow the default setting of architecture hyper-parameters (e.g., the hidden dimension is a quarter of the intermediate dimension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Yichun Yin , Cheng Chen , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu

The search cost of neural architecture search (NAS) has been largely reduced by weight-sharing methods. These methods optimize a super-network with all possible edges and operations, and determine the optimal sub-network by discretization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Yunjie Tian , Chang Liu , Lingxi Xie , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is quickly becoming the go-to approach to optimize the structure of Deep Learning (DL) models for complex tasks such as Image Classification or Object Detection. However, many other relevant applications of…

Neural architecture search has shown its great potential in various areas recently. However, existing methods rely heavily on a black-box controller to search architectures, which suffers from the serious problem of lacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xinyue Zheng , Peng Wang , Qigang Wang , Zhongchao Shi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) benchmarks significantly improved the capability of developing and comparing NAS methods while at the same time drastically reduced the computational overhead by providing meta-information about thousands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Vasco Lopes , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre