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ZAPS: Zero-Cost Active Proxy Search for Neural Architecture Search

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 12, 2026 · UTC

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates network design, but evaluating a single candidate requires training it to convergence, making exhaustive search intractable. Zero-cost proxies estimate architecture quality at initialization in seconds, yet a single proxy is noisy, and combining several does not straightforwardly help: proxies are strongly correlated, so naive aggregation compounds their shared errors instead of averaging them out. Existing methods exploit either proxy signals or architectural topology - never both within a single active-learning framework. We introduce ZAPS (Zero-cos

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