LESS: Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search in Minutes

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arXiv:2610.01468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-cost NAS must both explore high-performing architectures and identify them reliably, yet reducing evaluation cost often weakens the fidelity of candidate comparisons. Training-free methods reduce evaluation cost by replacing learned task feedback with proxy signals measured at initialization. We introduce LESS (Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search), a data-driven method that combines a brief fair hard-path warm-up with discrete search und