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Differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) is known for its capacity in the automatic generation of superior neural networks. However, DNAS based methods suffer from memory usage explosion when the search space expands, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zheyu Yan , Weiwen Jiang , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

Neural architecture search (NAS) can have a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing optimal neural network architectures for various tasks. A variant, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , David Doermann , Rongrong Ji

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a research field concerned with utilizing optimization algorithms to design optimal neural network architectures. There are many approaches concerning the architectural search spaces, optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

Neural architectures can be naturally viewed as computational graphs. Motivated by this perspective, we, in this paper, study neural architecture search (NAS) through the lens of learning random graph models. In contrast to existing NAS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Muchen Li , Jeffrey Yunfan Liu , Leonid Sigal , Renjie Liao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to learning representation on graphs in many relational tasks. Recently, researchers study neural architecture search (NAS) to reduce the dependence of human expertise and explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Shaofei Cai , Liang Li , Xinzhe Han , Zheng-jun Zha , Qingming Huang

The time and effort involved in hand-designing deep neural networks is immense. This has prompted the development of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate this design. However, NAS algorithms tend to be slow and expensive;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Joseph Mellor , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Thanks to the evolving network depth, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across various embedded scenarios, paving the way for ubiquitous embedded intelligence. Despite its promise, the evolving network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiangzhong Luo , Weichen Liu

Deep learning is increasingly impacting various aspects of contemporary society. Artificial neural networks have emerged as the dominant models for solving an expanding range of tasks. The introduction of Neural Architecture Search (NAS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Simone Sarti , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

We present a neural architecture search (NAS) technique to enhance the performance of unsupervised image de-noising, in-painting and super-resolution under the recently proposed Deep Image Prior (DIP). We show that evolutionary search can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kary Ho , Andrew Gilbert , Hailin Jin , John Collomosse

Despite the success of recent Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods on various tasks which have shown to output networks that largely outperform human-designed networks, conventional NAS methods have mostly tackled the optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Hayeon Lee , Eunyoung Hyung , Sung Ju Hwang

Many studies estimate energy consumption using proxy metrics like memory usage, FLOPs, and inference latency, with the assumption that reducing these metrics will also lower energy consumption in neural networks. This paper, however, takes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Hoang-Loc La , Phuong Hoai Ha

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Deep generative models are proven to be a useful tool for automatic design synthesis and design space exploration. When applied in engineering design, existing generative models face three challenges: 1) generated designs lack diversity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

The proliferation of deep learning accelerators calls for efficient and cost-effective hardware design solutions, where parameterized modular hardware generator and electronic design automation (EDA) tools play crucial roles in improving…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Ren , Chenhao Xue , Jiaxing Zhang , Chen Zhang , Qiang Xu , Yibo Lin , Lining Zhang , Guangyu Sun

To meet the demand for designing efficient neural networks with appropriate trade-offs between model performance (e.g., classification accuracy) and computational complexity, the differentiable neural architecture distillation (DNAD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xuan Rao , Bo Zhao , Derong Liu

Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hanlin Chen , Li'an Zhuo , Baochang Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Jianzhuang Liu , Rongrong Ji , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

Recent years have witnessed the popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) in various scenarios. To obtain optimal data-specific GNN architectures, researchers turn to neural architecture search (NAS) methods, which have made impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Huan Zhao , Lanning Wei , Quanming Yao

The standard paradigm in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is to search for a fully deterministic architecture with specific operations and connections. In this work, we instead propose to search for the optimal operation distribution, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xingchen Wan , Binxin Ru , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

This paper proposes a novel differentiable architecture search method by formulating it into a distribution learning problem. We treat the continuously relaxed architecture mixing weight as random variables, modeled by Dirichlet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Xiangning Chen , Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis