ECP (Evolving Comprehensive Proxies)

Junhao Huang, Bing Xue, Yanan Sun, and Mengjie Zhang. 2025. Evolving Comprehensive Proxies for Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search. In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '25), July 14-18, 2025, Malaga, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3712256.3726315

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This paper was nominated for the best paper award at the Neuroevolution track of GECCO 2025.

Preparation

This code is tested with Python 3.12.7, PyTorch 2.5.1, and CUDA 12.7.

• Download datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNet-16-120) from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T3UIyZXUhMmIuJLOBMIYKAsJknAtrrO4 and put them in ./data
• Download benchmark datasets and put them in ./APIs
  • NATS-Bench-TSS (NAS-Bench-201): https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Y0UwGisiouVRxW-W5hEtbxmcHw_0hF_/view
  • NATS-Bench-SSS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1scOMTUwcQhAMa_IMedp9lTzwmgqHLGgA/view
  • NDS: https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/nds/data.zip

Proxy Search

• Conduct proxy search on NATS-Bench by running sh run.sh

Citation

If you use this code in your research, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{ECP,
  title={Evolving Comprehensive Proxies for Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search},
  author={Huang, Junhao and Xue, Bing and Sun, Yanan and Zhang, Mengjie},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference},
  pages={1246--1254},
  year={2025}
}