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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an automatic technique that can search for well-performed architectures for a specific task. Although NAS surpasses human-designed architecture in many fields, the high computational cost of architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Yuqiao Liu , Haipeng Li , Yanan Sun , Shuaicheng Liu

Architecture performance evaluation is the most time-consuming part of neural architecture search (NAS). Zero-Shot NAS accelerates the evaluation by utilizing zero-cost proxies instead of training. Though effective, existing zero-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ning Wu , Han Huang , Yueting Xu , Zhifeng Hao

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

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

Neural network training is computationally and memory intensive. Sparse training can reduce the burden on emerging hardware platforms designed to accelerate sparse computations, but it can affect network convergence. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Md Aamir Raihan , Tor M. Aamodt

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) 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

Training-free network architecture search (NAS) aims to discover high-performing networks with zero-cost proxies, capturing network characteristics related to the final performance. However, network rankings estimated by previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Junghyup Lee , Bumsub Ham

Neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms save tremendous labor from human experts. Recent advancements further reduce the computational overhead to an affordable level. However, it is still cumbersome to deploy the NAS techniques in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zhuowei Li , Yibo Gao , Zhenzhou Zha , Zhiqiang HU , Qing Xia , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

We revisit the one-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) paradigm and analyze its advantages over existing NAS approaches. Existing one-shot method, however, is hard to train and not yet effective on large scale datasets like ImageNet. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Zichao Guo , Xiangyu Zhang , Haoyuan Mu , Wen Heng , Zechun Liu , Yichen Wei , Jian Sun

Neural architecture search (NAS) enables the automatic design of neural network models. However, training the candidates generated by the search algorithm for performance evaluation incurs considerable computational overhead. Our method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhenhan Huang , Tejaswini Pedapati , Pin-Yu Chen , Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) introduce state-of-the-art results for various tasks with the price of high computational demands. Inspired by the observation that spatial correlation exists in CNN output feature maps (ofms), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Gil Shomron , Ron Banner , Moran Shkolnik , Uri Weiser

Many hardware-aware neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been developed to optimize the topology of neural networks (NN) with the joint objectives of higher accuracy and lower latency. Recently, both accuracy and latency predictors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

Visual prompt learning, as a newly emerged technique, leverages the knowledge learned by a large-scale pre-trained model and adapts it to downstream tasks through the usage of prompts. While previous research has focused on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Ziqing Yang , Zeyang Sha , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Efficient evaluation of a network architecture drawn from a large search space remains a key challenge in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Vanilla NAS evaluates each architecture by training from scratch, which gives the true performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Yuandong Tian , Rodrigo Fonseca , Tian Guo

The cross-domain capability of wireless sensing is currently one of the major challenges on human activity recognition (HAR) based on the channel state information (CSI) of wireless signals. The difficulty of labeling samples from new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Guillermo Diaz , Iker Sobron , Inaki Eizmendi , Iratxe Landa , Manuel Velez

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize a set of unseen classes without any training images. The standard approach to ZSL requires a set of training images annotated with seen class labels and a semantic descriptor for seen/unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Nanyi Fei , Jiechao Guan , Zhiwu Lu , Tao Xiang , Ji-Rong Wen

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has driven innovations and created new opportunities across various sectors. However, leveraging domain-specific knowledge often requires automated tools to design and configure models effectively. In the case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado