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Present day artificial neural architecture search (NAS) strategies are essentially prediction-error-optimized. That holds true for AI functions in general. From the developmental neuroscience perspective, I present evidence for the central…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-06 Martin G. Frasch

We present an elegant framework of fine-grained neural architecture search (FGNAS), which allows to employ multiple heterogeneous operations within a single layer and can even generate compositional feature maps using several different base…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Heewon Kim , Seokil Hong , Bohyung Han , Heesoo Myeong , Kyoung Mu Lee

Living neural networks emerge through a process of growth and self-organization that begins with a single cell and results in a brain, an organized and functional computational device. Artificial neural networks, however, rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Guruprasad Raghavan , Matt Thomson

To preserve user privacy while enabling mobile intelligence, techniques have been proposed to train deep neural networks on decentralized data. However, training over decentralized data makes the design of neural architecture quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Jinliang Yuan , Mengwei Xu , Yuxin Zhao , Kaigui Bian , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu , Shangguang Wang

Recently, the expert-crafted neural architectures is increasing overtaken by the utilization of neural architecture search (NAS) and automatic generation (and tuning) of network structures which has a close relation to the Hyperparameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seyed Mahdi Shariatzadeh , Mahmood Fathy , Reza Berangi , Mohammad Shahverdy

Deep learning algorithms, in particular 2D and 3D fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), have rapidly become the mainstream methodology for volumetric medical image segmentation. However, 2D convolutions cannot fully leverage the rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Zhuotun Zhu , Chenxi Liu , Dong Yang , Alan Yuille , Daguang Xu

This paper introduces Evolutionary Multi-Objective Network Architecture Search (EMNAS) for the first time to optimize neural network architectures in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Autonomous Driving (AD). EMNAS uses genetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nihal Acharya Adde , Alexandra Gianzina , Hanno Gottschalk , Andreas Ebert

Artificial neural network (NN) architecture design is a nontrivial and time-consuming task that often requires a high level of human expertise. Neural architecture search (NAS) serves to automate the design of NN architectures and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Reinhard Booysen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

The traditional Neural Network-development process requires substantial expert knowledge and relies heavily on intuition and trial-and-error. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) frameworks were introduced to robustly search for network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mohamed Shahawy , Elhadj Benkhelifa

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) 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

Search space design is very critical to neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms. We propose a fine-grained search space comprised of atomic blocks, a minimal search unit that is much smaller than the ones used in recent NAS algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jieru Mei , Yingwei Li , Xiaochen Lian , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Alan Yuille , Jianchao Yang

Biological nervous systems are created in a fundamentally different way than current artificial neural networks. Despite its impressive results in a variety of different domains, deep learning often requires considerable engineering effort…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Elias Najarro , Shyam Sudhakaran , Sebastian Risi

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks. Despite the superior performance achieved, the efficiency and generality of existing methods are highly valued due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiawu Zheng , Chenyi Yang , Shaokun Zhang , Yan Wang , Baochang Zhang , Yongjian Wu , Yunsheng Wu , Ling Shao , Rongrong Ji

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

This paper describes a method that automatically searches Artificial Neural Networks using Cellular Genetic Algorithms. The main difference of this method for a common genetic algorithm is the use of a cellular automaton capable of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Anderson P. da Silva , Teresa B. Ludermir , Leandro M. Almeida

In neural architecture search, the structure of the neural network to best model a given dataset is determined by an automated search process. Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), proposed by Pham et al. (2018), has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Prabhant Singh , Tobias Jacobs , Sebastien Nicolas , Mischa Schmidt

In the past few years, neural architecture search (NAS) has become an increasingly important tool within the deep learning community. Despite the many recent successes of NAS, however, most existing approaches operate within highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Charles Jin , Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana , Sudip Roy

In this research, we propose ImmuNetNAS, a novel Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach inspired by the immune network theory. The core of ImmuNetNAS is built on the original immune network algorithm, which iteratively updates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Kefan Chen , Wei Pang

We propose a novel strategy for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) based on Bregman iterations. Starting from a sparse neural network our gradient-based one-shot algorithm gradually adds relevant parameters in an inverse scale space manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Leon Bungert , Tim Roith , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger