Prof. Yanan Sun

Sichuan University, China

Biography

Ya'nan Sun, Professor, BoD, National Young Talent, Sichuan Tianfu Emei Plan Talent, Chengdu May 1st Labor Medal Winner, Sichuan University Advanced Individuals Young Backbone Teachers, Sichuan University "Battling Talent Program 2.0", "Strong Foundation Program" Academic Development Executive Director. He is the deputy director of the Machine Learning and Industrial Intelligence Application Engineering Center of the Ministry of Education of China, the academic member of the National Key Laboratory of Digital Agile Design for Air Vehicles, the leader of the innovation group of Sichuan Natural Science Foundation, the associate editor of the authoritative journal of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning System.

Title: Recent Advances in Neural Architecture Search 

Abstract:Neural Architecture Search (NAS) automates the design of neural network architectures. NAS aims to find the best architecture within the search space by using strategies. However, evaluating the performance of many architectures is computationally expensive. To address this, performance predictors are used to estimate architecture performance, improving search efficiency.  Several works by our group on performance predictors are introduced, including HAAP, CDP, and CAP. Furthermore, the application of NAS is explored by our group, particularly in robust machine learning and continual learning.