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Deep reinforcement learning has achieved impressive success in control tasks. However, its policies, represented as opaque neural networks, are often difficult for humans to understand, verify, and debug, which undermines trust and hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Qinglong Hu , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Fei Liu , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Ansel MacLaughlin , Jwala Dhamala , Anoop Kumar , Sriram Venkatapathy , Ragav Venkatesan , Rahul Gupta

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been successfully applied to optimize the policies for Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks due to their exploration ability. The recently proposed Negatively Correlated Search (NCS) provides a distinct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hu Zhang , Peng Yang , Yanglong Yu , Mingjia Li , Ke Tang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for automatically finding the optimal network architecture has shown some success with competitive performances in various computer vision tasks. However, NAS in general requires a tremendous amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Bokyeung Lee , Kyungdeuk Ko , Jonghwan Hong , Hanseok Ko

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a popular method for discovering effective model architectures, especially for target hardware. As such, NAS methods that find optimal architectures under constraints are essential. In our paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yicheng Fan , Dana Alon , Jingyue Shen , Daiyi Peng , Keshav Kumar , Yun Long , Xin Wang , Fotis Iliopoulos , Da-Cheng Juan , Erik Vee

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is used extensively in Autonomous Systems (AS) as it enables learning at runtime without the need for a model of the environment or predefined actions. However, most applications of RL in AS, such as those based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Juan C. Rosero , Ivana Dusparic , Nicolás Cardozo

Most differentiable neural architecture search methods construct a super-net for search and derive a target-net as its sub-graph for evaluation. There exists a significant gap between the architectures in search and evaluation. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Yibo Yang , Shan You , Hongyang Li , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks is an essential stage of modern AI deployment. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as the dominant fine-tuning paradigm, underpinning many state-of-the-art LLMs. In contrast,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xin Qiu , Yulu Gan , Conor F. Hayes , Qiyao Liang , Yinggan Xu , Roberto Dailey , Elliot Meyerson , Babak Hodjat , Risto Miikkulainen

Present-day Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems show great promise towards building intelligent agents surpassing human-level performance. However, the computational complexity associated with the underlying deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Malik Aqeel Anwar , Priyadarshini Panda , Arijit Raychowdhury , Kaushik Roy

Neural architecture search (NAS) relies on a good controller to generate better architectures or predict the accuracy of given architectures. However, training the controller requires both abundant and high-quality pairs of architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Renqian Luo , Xu Tan , Rui Wang , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

We propose Stochastic Neural Architecture Search (SNAS), an economical end-to-end solution to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that trains neural operation parameters and architecture distribution parameters in same round of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sirui Xie , Hehui Zheng , Chunxiao Liu , Liang Lin

Training highly recurrent networks in continuous action spaces is a technical challenge: gradient-based methods suffer from exploding or vanishing gradients, while purely evolutionary searches converge slowly in high-dimensional weight…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Miles Walter Churchland , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potentials in finding better neural network designs. Sample-based NAS is the most reliable approach which aims at exploring the search space and evaluating the most promising architectures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Han Shi , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok , Tong Zhang

Given the recent impressive accomplishments of language models (LMs) for code generation, we explore the use of LMs as adaptive mutation and crossover operators for an evolutionary neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm. While NAS still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Angelica Chen , David M. Dohan , David R. So

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

The main challenge to deploy deep neural network (DNN) over a mobile edge network is how to split the DNN model so as to match the network architecture as well as all the nodes' computation and communication capacity. This essentially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yuqing Tian , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Qianqian Yang

Neural architecture search (NAS) has advanced significantly in recent years but most NAS systems restrict search to learning architectures of a recurrent or convolutional cell. In this paper, we extend the search space of NAS. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yinqiao Li , Chi Hu , Yuhao Zhang , Nuo Xu , Yufan Jiang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Tongran Liu , Changliang Li

This study introduces a novel approach to autonomous motion planning, informing an analytical algorithm with a reinforcement learning (RL) agent within a Frenet coordinate system. The combination directly addresses the challenges of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Rainer Trauth , Alexander Hobmeier , Johannes Betz

Convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have traditionally been explored by human experts in a manual search process that is time-consuming and ineffectively explores the massive space of potential solutions. Neural architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Gerard Jacques van Wyk , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Deploying models across diverse devices demands tradeoffs among multiple objectives due to different resource constraints. Arguably, due to the small model trap problem in multi-objective neural architecture search (MO-NAS) based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Peng Liao , XiLu Wang , Yaochu Jin , WenLi Du