Efficient Leakage-Free Neural Architecture Search under Leave-One-Subject-Out Evaluation

arXiv:2609.09433 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) evaluation estimates generalisation performance for subject-based classification but makes Neural Architecture Search (NAS) computationally expensive because a fully

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Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) evaluation estimates generalisation performance for subject-based classification but makes Neural Architecture Search (NAS) computationally expensive because a fully nested implementation requires N independent architecture searches and, assuming approximately linear training cost, scales as O(N 2). We propose a leakage-free, block-based approach that shares NAS runs across subjects. On the BioVid Heat Pain dataset, our approach increased the mean accuracy from 82.79% to 83.39% while reducing the number of parameters by up to 99.2%.

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