EENA efficiently searches neural architectures with minimal resources.
problem Lack of direction and high computational cost in neural architecture search.
method EENA uses guided evolution with mutation and crossover operations.
result EENA designs highly effective neural architectures with minimal resources.
Simplified NAS for GNN architectures improves efficiency and expressiveness.
problem Efficient and effective discovery of optimal GNN architectures.
method SNAG framework with a novel search space and reinforcement learning.
result SNAG framework outperforms human-designed and existing NAS methods.
Improves neural architecture search methods to be more stable and efficient.
problem Neural architecture search methods are unstable and sensitive to hyperparameters.
method Discusses practical considerations to improve stability and efficiency.
result Improves overall performance of neural architecture search methods.
New ShuffleNASNets improve efficiency and speed of CNN models.
problem Complexity and inefficiency of search-based neural architecture designs.
method Adopted and enhanced Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS) with ShuffleNet V2 principles.
result Achieved significantly less complex, faster, and more efficient CNN models.
SNAS efficiently searches neural architectures using stochastic optimization.
problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures.
method SNAS trains parameters of both neural operations and architecture distribution in a single round of backpropagation, using a novel search gradient and locally decomposable rewards.
result SNAS achieves state-of-the-art accuracy with fewer training epochs compared to other NAS methods.
Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.
problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.
Graph-based NAS improves sample efficiency in architecture design.
problem Current NAS search spaces are static sequences, limiting expressiveness.
method Proposed graph-based search space with vertices and edges for iterative and branching decisions.
result Graph representation improves sample efficiency in architecture design.
New agent learns from previous search spaces to improve NAS efficiency.
problem NAS requires restarting learning from scratch between different search spaces.
method Transformer-based agent for joint training and knowledge transfer.
result Efficient knowledge transfer between search spaces improves NAS performance.
Evo-NAS combines neural and evolutionary methods for efficient neural architecture search.
problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures in deep learning.
method Evolutionary-Neural hybrid agents that combine the strengths of neural and evolutionary algorithms.
result Evo-NAS outperforms both neural and evolutionary agents in architecture search for various classification tasks.
Efficient neural architecture search by sampling structure and operations.
problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures.
method Decouples structure and operation search, using reinforcement learning with policy vectors.
result Significantly improved efficiency compared to traditional methods.
HM-NAS improves neural architecture search by learning optimal architectures.
problem Limited flexibility in architecture candidates due to hand-designed heuristics.
method Incorporates multi-level encoding and hierarchical masking to automatically learn optimal architectures.
result Achieves better architecture search performance and competitive model accuracy.
Neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed to automatically tune deep neural networks, but existing search algorithms, e.g., NASNet, PNAS, usually suffer from expensive computational cost. Network morphism, which keeps the functionality of a neural network while changing its neural architecture, could be helpfu…
A new framework generates large hierarchical search spaces for neural architectures.
problem Discovering neural architectures from simple blocks is hard.
method Context-free grammars for a unified, scalable search space.
result Efficiently searches over complete architectures, outperforming existing methods.
NASES uses embedding space for efficient NAS in image classification tasks.
problem Difficulty in optimizing high-dimensional discrete architecture spaces.
method NASES employs architecture encoders and decoders to search in an embedding space using reinforcement learning.
result NASES discovers comparable final architectures to other NAS approaches in less time.
NPENAS improves neural architecture search efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficient and accurate neural architecture search (NAS) for minimizing search costs.
method Proposes NPENAS, a neural predictor guided evolutionary algorithm that enhances exploration ability of evolutionary algorithms.
result NPENAS-BO and NPENAS-NP outperform existing NAS algorithms on NASBench-201, NASBench-101, and DARTS.
FiGS searches over a larger space of architectures for efficient mobile models.
problem Designing small, efficient deep networks for mobile devices.
method Differentiable search method using sparse regularization and Logistic-Sigmoid distribution.
result FiGS produces state-of-the-art parameter-efficient models on ImageNet and improves object detection performance.
Paper uses CMAB to improve NAS efficiency and accuracy.
problem Improving efficiency and accuracy of NAS for DNNs.
method Formulated NAS as CMAB, used Nested Monte-Carlo Search.
result Discovered cell structure achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art, 20x faster.
This paper improves neural architecture search by focusing on novelty-driven sampling.
problem Lack of positive correlation between validation accuracy and test accuracy in One-Shot NAS.
method Single-path supernet with optimized weights and novelty search for architecture sampling.
result Novelty search method achieves state-of-the-art test error rate on CIFAR-10.
NeuralArTS categorizes neural ops in a type system for NAS.
problem Manual optimization of search spaces for NAS is inefficient.
method Developed NeuralArTS, a type system for categorizing network ops.
result NeuralArTS can be applied to convolutional layers.
NASP uses proximal gradient descent to speed up neural architecture search.
problem Efficiently search for high-performance neural architectures.
method Differentiable Neural Architecture Search using Proximal gradient descent.
result NASP achieves 10 times speedup over DARTS while maintaining high performance.
MemNet optimizes neural architectures for memory efficiency.
problem Memory constraints in mobile devices limit the use of large neural networks.
method Augment-trim learning with memory consumption ranking score.
result MemNet finds architectures with 24.17% less memory usage compared to state-of-the-art methods.
MiLeNAS improves neural architecture search by reducing approximation errors and achieving better accuracy.
problem Improving efficiency and accuracy in neural architecture search (NAS).
method Mixed-level reformulation (MiLeNAS) to optimize efficiently and reliably.
result MiLeNAS achieves lower validation error and higher accuracy than bilevel optimization methods.
PARSEC uses a probabilistic approach to reduce memory usage in neural architecture search.
problem Efficiently search over large and complex neural architectures with reduced memory usage.
method Probabilistic sampling to learn a distribution over high-performing architectures, enabling transfer learning.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods with significantly less computational cost.
Simpler neural architecture search method using random architectures and regression.
problem Complex algorithms in neural architecture search.
method Train N random architectures, use them to train a regression model, predict validation accuracies, and select top-K architectures.
result More sample efficient and competitive with complex approaches.
Smooth embedding space improves NAS performance.
problem Efficiently predicting good neural architectures.
method Two-sided variational graph autoencoder.
result Smooth embedding space facilitates extrapolation to unseen architectures.
Flat learning curves reveal no progress in ENAS controller.
problem Improving learning speed in neural architecture search.
method Evaluated learning progress of ENAS controller through architecture re-training.
result No observable progress in controller's generated architectures.
Improves NAS by learning actions to optimize network performance.
problem Manual action space design in MCTS NAS is inefficient.
method LaNAS learns actions to recursively partition search space.
result Significantly more sample-efficient than existing methods.
SGAS improves neural architecture search by choosing and pruning operations greedily.
problem NAS often fails to generalize in final evaluation.
method Divides search into sub-problems and chooses/prunes candidate operations greedily.
result SGAS finds state-of-the-art architectures with minimal computational cost.
NASIB adapts NAS to varying computation resources efficiently.
problem Constrained computation resources in enterprise environments.
method Adapts exploration vs. exploitation trade-off and uses Superkernels.
result Searches over a larger space with similar accuracy in less time.
DNAS disentangles neural architecture search for better interpretability and performance.
problem Lack of interpretability in existing neural architecture search methods.
method DNAS disentangles the hidden representation of the controller into semantically meaningful concepts.
result DNAS achieves state-of-the-art performance and competitive architectures.
Weight-sharing is rarely helpful in NAS, especially on small datasets.
problem The efficiency of weight-sharing in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is questionable.
method Comparison of a state-of-the-art weight-sharing approach to random search on the nasbench dataset.
result Weight-sharing is only rarely significantly helpful in NAS, highlighting the importance of the search space.
We explore efficient neural architecture search methods and show that a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm can discover new architectures with excellent performance. Our approach combines a novel hierarchical genetic representation scheme that imitates the modularized design pattern commonly adopted by human ex…
Bonsai-Net efficiently discovers state-of-the-art models with fewer parameters.
problem Efficiently discovering state-of-the-art neural architectures with minimal computational expense.
method Bonsai-Net uses a modified differential pruner to explore a relaxed search space.
result Bonsai-Net consistently discovers better architectures than random search with fewer parameters.
GATES improves neural architecture search by modeling operations as information transformation.
problem Improving predictor-based neural architecture search efficiency.
method GATES models operations as information transformation, covering both node and edge cell search spaces.
result GATES boosts sample efficiency and improves predictor performance.
A ranking network improves neural architecture search efficiency.
problem Efficiently search for neural network architectures without extensive training.
method Pairwise ranking loss for a performance predictor trained on task meta-features.
result The ranking network outperforms the performance predictor in architecture search.
Petridish efficiently searches neural architectures by iteratively adding shortcut connections.
problem Finding efficient neural architectures for various tasks.
method Iteratively adds shortcut connections to existing network layers, motivated by feature selection.
result Petridish efficiently finds competitive models with few GPU days.
A method to reduce memory usage in NAS by pruning the search space.
problem High GPU memory consumption in One-Shot NAS techniques.
method Utilising Zero-Shot NAS to prune the search space before applying One-Shot NAS.
result Reduces memory consumption by 81% while maintaining accuracy.
BNAS improves neural architecture search with a scalable, fast, and efficient approach.
problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures with high performance and low training time.
method Designing a broad scalable architecture (BCNN) with reinforcement learning and parameter sharing, and developing two variants.
result Significantly reduces training time and achieves state-of-the-art performance on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.
RARTS improves neural architecture search efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficiency and accuracy issues in first-order DARTS.
method Formulates a relaxed architecture search (RARTS) method that uses whole dataset splitting.
result RARTS outperforms DARTS and its variants in accuracy and efficiency.
Paper evaluates robustness of NAS against poisoning attacks.
problem Robustness of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) against poisoning attacks.
method Evaluation of Efficient NAS (ENAS) against carefully designed ineffective operations in poisoning attacks.
result Demonstrates how poisoning attacks exploit design flaws in ENAS controller.
Predict accuracy of neural architectures using non-neural models.
problem Improving efficiency and effectiveness of neural architecture search.
method Used gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) for accuracy prediction and pruned the search space based on features learned from GBDT.
result GBDT-based predictor achieves comparable or better accuracy than neural network-based predictors and is 22x more sample efficient on NASBench-101.
DeepSwarm uses swarm intelligence to optimize CNN architectures.
problem Optimizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
method Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for neural architecture search.
result DeepSwarm outperforms existing methods on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and CIFAR-10 datasets.
Efficiently infers neural architectures for unseen tasks.
problem High cost of neural architecture search.
method Gradient-based framework sharing information across tasks.
result Quick identification of good candidate architectures for new tasks.
Efficient algorithm finds fast Transformer models.
problem Slow inference time of Transformer models.
method Decompose Transformer architecture into components, use sampling-based one-shot search.
result Achieved 10% to 30% speedup on pre-trained BERT and 70% on top of a previous state-of-the-art model.
CLEAS improves neural architecture search for continual learning.
problem Overcoming catastrophic forgetting and adapting to new tasks while controlling model complexity.
method Neural architecture search (NAS) with reinforcement learning to find optimal neural architecture.
result CLEAS achieves higher classification accuracy with simpler neural architectures.
AGNN automates GNN architecture search, achieving best performance.
problem Finding optimal GNN architectures is laborious and requires human expertise.
method AGNN uses reinforcement learning to search for optimal GNN architectures within a predefined space, with a novel parameter sharing strategy.
result AGNN identifies optimal GNN architectures achieving best performance.
While existing work on neural architecture search (NAS) tunes hyperparameters in a separate post-processing step, we demonstrate that architectural choices and other hyperparameter settings interact in a way that can render this separation suboptimal. Likewise, we demonstrate that the common practice of using very few …
GroSS enables efficient search for grouped convolutional architectures.
problem Training grouped convolutional architectures efficiently and effectively.
method GroSS: Group-Size Series Decomposition for Grouped Architecture Search.
result Simultaneous training of differing numbers of groups within a single layer and all possible combinations between layers.