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Zero-cost proxies are nowadays frequently studied and used to search for neural architectures. They show an impressive ability to predict the performance of architectures by making use of their untrained weights. These techniques allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jovita Lukasik , Michael Moeller , Margret Keuper

Neural architecture search (NAS) for Graph neural networks (GNNs), called NAS-GNNs, has achieved significant performance over manually designed GNN architectures. However, these methods inherit issues from the conventional NAS methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Peng Xu , Lin Zhang , Xuanzhou Liu , Jiaqi Sun , Yue Zhao , Haiqin Yang , Bei Yu

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hongpeng Zhou , Minghao Yang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

Neural architecture search (NAS) has become a common approach to developing and discovering new neural architectures for different target platforms and purposes. However, scanning the search space is comprised of long training processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Tal Hakim

Weight sharing based and predictor based methods are two major types of fast neural architecture search methods. In this paper, we propose to jointly use weight sharing and predictor in a unified framework. First, we construct a SuperNet in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ke Lin , Yong A , Zhuoxin Gan , Yingying Jiang

Recently, Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been introduced and show impressive performance on many benchmarks. Among those NAS studies, Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT) aims to adapt the given neural architecture to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Do-Guk Kim , Heung-Chang Lee

In the last decade, zero-cost metrics have gained prominence in neural architecture search (NAS) due to their ability to evaluate architectures without training. These metrics are significantly faster and less computationally expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ekaterina Gracheva

Zero-shot proxies, also known as training-free metrics, are widely adopted to reduce the computational overhead in neural network evaluation for scenarios such as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), as they do not require any training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yameng Peng , Andy Song , HaythamM. Fayek , Vic Ciesielski , Xiaojun Chang

Performance prediction has been a key part of the neural architecture search (NAS) process, allowing to speed up NAS algorithms by avoiding resource-consuming network training. Although many performance predictors correlate well with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Gabriela Kadlecová , Jovita Lukasik , Martin Pilát , Petra Vidnerová , Mahmoud Safari , Roman Neruda , Frank Hutter

We formalize and analyze a fundamental component of differentiable neural architecture search (NAS): local "operation scoring" at each operation choice. We view existing operation scoring functions as inexact proxies for accuracy, and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lichuan Xiang , Łukasz Dudziak , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Thomas Chau , Nicholas D. Lane , Hongkai Wen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is emerging as a new research direction which has the potential to replace the hand-crafted neural architectures designed for specific tasks. Previous evolution based architecture search requires high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Nilotpal Sinha , Kuan-Wen Chen

The wide application of pre-trained models is driving the trend of once-for-all training in one-shot neural architecture search (NAS). However, training within a huge sample space damages the performance of individual subnets and requires…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haibin Wang , Ce Ge , Hesen Chen , Xiuyu Sun

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

A promising alternative to the computationally expensive Neural Architecture Search (NAS) involves the development of Zero Cost Proxies (ZCPs), which correlate well with trained performance, but can be computed through a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Richard Goldman , Varun Komperla , Thomas Ploetz , Harish Haresamudram

Early methods in the rapidly developing field of neural architecture search (NAS) required fully training thousands of neural networks. To reduce this extreme computational cost, dozens of techniques have since been proposed to predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Colin White , Arber Zela , Binxin Ru , Yang Liu , Frank Hutter

The demand for efficient natural language processing (NLP) systems has led to the development of lightweight language models. Previous work in this area has primarily focused on manual design or training-based neural architecture search…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shang Wang

Neural architecture search can discover neural networks with good performance, and One-Shot approaches are prevalent. One-Shot approaches typically require a supernet with weight sharing and predictors that predict the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Chia-Hsiang Liu , Yu-Shin Han , Yuan-Yao Sung , Yi Lee , Hung-Yueh Chiang , Kai-Chiang Wu

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown excellent results in designing architectures for computer vision problems. NAS alleviates the need for human-defined settings by automating architecture design and engineering. However, NAS methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Vasco Lopes , Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

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