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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

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

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

Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Krzysztof Maziarz , Mingxing Tan , Andrey Khorlin , Marin Georgiev , Andrea Gesmundo

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) 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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Miguel Santos , Bruno Degardin , Luís A. Alexandre

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) automates the design of high-performing neural networks but typically targets a single predefined task, thereby restricting its real-world applicability. To address this, Meta Neural Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zijun Sun , Yanning Shen

The searching procedure of neural architecture search (NAS) is notoriously time consuming and cost prohibitive.To make the search space continuous, most existing gradient-based NAS methods relax the categorical choice of a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Shoufa Chen , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to optimize deep neural networks' architecture for better accuracy or smaller computational cost and has recently gained more research interests. Despite various successful approaches proposed to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Bas van Stein , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained widespread attention for its transformative potential in deep learning model design. However, the vast and complex search space of NAS leads to significant computational and time costs. Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bingye Zhou , Caiyang Yu , Chenwei Tang

Automated machine learning (AutoML) has seen a resurgence in interest with the boom of deep learning over the past decade. In particular, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has seen significant attention throughout the AutoML research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Min Shi , David A. Wilson , Xingquan Zhu , Yu Huang , Yuan Zhuang , Jianxun Liu , Yufei Tang

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS), i.e., the automation of neural network design, has gained much popularity in recent years with increasingly complex search algorithms being proposed. Yet, solid comparisons with simple baselines are often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 T. Den Ottelander , A. Dushatskiy , M. Virgolin , P. A. N. Bosman

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved effective in offering outperforming alternatives to handcrafted neural networks. In this paper we analyse the benefits of NAS for image classification tasks under strict computational constraints.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Cristian Cioflan , Radu Timofte

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) continue to achieve great success in classification tasks as innovative techniques and complex multi-path architecture topologies are introduced. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Trevor Londt , Xiaoying Gao , Peter Andreae , Yi Mei

Neural architecture search (NAS) has brought significant progress in recent image recognition tasks. Most existing NAS methods apply restricted search spaces, which limits the upper-bound performance of searched models. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Lujun Li , Menglong Lu , Xin Niu , Peijie Dong , Dongsheng Li

Deep learning methods have become very successful at solving many complex tasks such as image classification and segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, manually designing a neural network for a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Maria Baldeon Calisto , Susana Lai-Yuen

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Hieu Pham , Melody Y. Guan , Barret Zoph , Quoc V. Le , Jeff Dean

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