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Neural architecture search: research map
380 accepted papers on Neural architecture search in Architectures and efficiency, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 2 clusters and 6 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2021.
Within Architectures and efficiency, its share shrank from 3.8% in 2023–24 to 1.4% in 2025–26 (75 → 50 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).
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Approaches and key papers
search nas · bench · architecture search · 200 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Efficient NAS search strategies (86 papers)
Improves architecture search with credit assignment, distillation, and generative modeling of architectures. - Bi-level differentiable NAS (84 papers)
Reformulates gradient-based architecture search optimization with sampling, mixed-level, and geometry-aware methods. - One-shot and few-shot supernets (30 papers)
Trains supernets and ranks architectures with few-shot splitting and zero-cost proxies.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Understanding and Simplifying One-Shot Architecture Search (ICML 2018 · 528 citations)
- CARS: Continuous Evolution for Efficient Neural Architecture Search (CVPR 2020 · 279 citations)
- AZ-NAS: Assembling Zero-Cost Proxies for Network Architecture Search (CVPR 2024 · 27 citations)
- DC-NAS: Divide-and-Conquer Neural Architecture Search for Multi-Modal Classification (AAAI 2024 · 21 citations)
differentiable · image · latency · 180 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Latency-aware architecture search (91 papers)
Searches network width and structure under latency, memory, and robustness constraints. - AutoML pipeline search (57 papers)
Searches model pipelines and operations beyond standard networks, including multimodal fusion and learning-curve ranking. - Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) (32 papers)
Relaxes architecture choice to continuous weights, improving DARTS robustness, memory use, and analysis.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition (CVPR 2018 · 6,603 citations)
- Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning (ICLR 2017 · 4,370 citations)
- Training-Free Quantum Architecture Search (AAAI 2024 · 26 citations)
- SasWOT: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Architecture Search WithOut Training (AAAI 2024 · 23 citations)
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- Spiking networks (289)
- Mixture of experts (300)
- CNN design (853)