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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…

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Mathematical theory shows us that multilayer feedforward Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) are universal function approximators, capable of approximating any measurable function to any desired degree of accuracy. In practice designing…

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In many real-world applications, we often need to handle various deployment scenarios, where the resource constraint and the superclass of interest corresponding to a group of classes are dynamically specified. How to efficiently deploy…

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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

While the theoretical analysis of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) has made significant progress for pseudo-Boolean optimization problems in the last 25 years, only sporadic theoretical results exist on how EAs solve permutation-based…

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Recent advances in adversarial attacks show the vulnerability of deep neural networks searched by Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although NAS methods can find network architectures with the state-of-the-art performance, the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhixiong Yue , Baijiong Lin , Xiaonan Huang , Yu Zhang

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…

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The early pioneering Neural Architecture Search (NAS) works were multi-trial methods applicable to any general search space. The subsequent works took advantage of the early findings and developed weight-sharing methods that assume a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Hyunghun Cho , Jungwook Shin , Wonjong Rhee

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods, which automatically learn entire neural model or individual neural cell architectures, have recently achieved competitive or state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on variety of natural language…

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Multitask learning, i.e. learning several tasks at once with the same neural network, can improve performance in each of the tasks. Designing deep neural network architectures for multitask learning is a challenge: There are many ways to…

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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven successful in image generation tasks. However, GAN training is inherently unstable. Although many works try to stabilize it by manually modifying GAN architecture, it requires much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Guohao Ying , Xin He , Bin Gao , Bo Han , Xiaowen Chu

The mathematical runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms traditionally regards the time an algorithm needs to find a solution of a certain quality when initialized with a random population. In practical applications it may be possible…

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The Makespan Scheduling problem is an extensively studied NP-hard problem, and its simplest version looks for an allocation approach for a set of jobs with deterministic processing times to two identical machines such that the makespan is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Feng Shi , Daoyu Huang , Xiankun Yan , Frank Neumann

In the last decade remarkable progress has been made in development of suitable proof techniques for analysing randomised search heuristics. The theoretical investigation of these algorithms on classes of functions is essential to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Frank Neumann , Mojgan Pourhassan , Carsten Witt

Practical use of neural networks often involves requirements on latency, energy and memory among others. A popular approach to find networks under such requirements is through constrained Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Niv Nayman , Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Rong Jin , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

In recent years, many design automation methods have been developed to routinely create approximate implementations of circuits and programs that show excellent trade-offs between the quality of output and required resources. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Lukas Sekanina

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Xinghao Chen , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

In the past few years, Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (DNAS) rapidly imposed itself as the trending approach to automate the discovery of deep neural network architectures. This rise is mainly due to the popularity of DARTS, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Alexandre Heuillet , Ahmad Nasser , Hichem Arioui , Hedi Tabia

The running-time analysis of evolutionary combinatorial optimization is a fundamental topic in evolutionary computation. However, theoretical results regarding the $(\mu+\lambda)$ evolutionary algorithm (EA) for combinatorial optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Min Huang , Pengxiang Chen , Han Huang , Tongli He , Yushan Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

In class-incremental learning, a model learns continuously from a sequential data stream in which new classes occur. Existing methods often rely on static architectures that are manually crafted. These methods can be prone to capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Shenyang Huang , Vincent François-Lavet , Guillaume Rabusseau