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48 results for Differentiable Architecture

Differentially-private FNAS protects privacy while collaboratively searching for neural architectures.

problem Collaborative neural architecture search with privacy concerns.
method Federated Neural Architecture Search (FNAS) with differential privacy (DP-FNAS).
result DP-FNAS can search for highly-performant neural architectures while protecting individual parties' privacy.

This paper addresses the scalability challenge of architecture search by formulating the task in a differentiable manner. Unlike conventional approaches of applying evolution or reinforcement learning over a discrete and non-differentiable search space, our method is based on the continuous relaxation of the architectu…

2018-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

UNAS combines DNAS and RL for efficient architecture search.

problem Discovering high accuracy or low latency neural architectures.
method Unified framework combining differentiable and reinforcement learning approaches.
result UNAS achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet datasets.

Proposes a method to improve neural architectures reproducibly.

problem Lack of reproducibility in Neural Architecture Transformer (NAT).
method Differentiable Neural Architecture Transformation (DNAT).
result DNAT outperforms NAT and is applicable to various models and datasets.

Differentiable NAS method optimizes network architecture and parameters efficiently.

problem Challenging to simultaneously guarantee effectiveness and efficiency in network architecture search.
method Differentiable architecture search with ensemble Gumbel-Softmax estimator.
result End-to-end mechanism for searching network architectures, discovering high-performance architectures efficiently.

New model predicts neural network performance from early training epochs, incorporating architecture impact.

problem Predicting neural network performance from early training epochs, neglecting architecture impact.
method Architecture-aware graph ordinary differential equation model.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods for MLP and CNN learning curves.

SmoothDARTS stabilizes DARTS-based architecture search by smoothing loss landscapes.

problem DARTS-based NAS methods suffer from instability, leading to deteriorating architectures.
method SmoothDARTS (SDARTS) uses perturbation-based regularization to smooth the loss landscape.
result SmoothDARTS improves the generalizability and performance of DARTS-based methods.

Efficient neural networks compute various differential operators cheaply.

problem Efficient computation of higher time complexity differential operators.
method Restricted neural network architectures with diagonal and hollow Jacobian matrices, allowing efficient extraction of dimension-wise derivatives.
result Demonstrated efficient computation of differential operators for various applications.

DNArch learns CNN architectures by backpropagation.

problem Discovering optimal CNN architectures.
method Differentiable Neural Architectures (DNArch) learns CNN architectures by backpropagation, controlling kernel sizes, channels, downsampling positions, and depth.
result DNArch finds performant CNN architectures across various tasks.

Differentiable NAS frameworks grow networks wider and deeper, revealing biases in wiring evolution.

problem Understanding the evolution of neural architecture wiring in differentiable NAS methods.
method Unified view on searching algorithms, local cost minimization, empirical and theoretical analyses.
result Implicit inductive biases cause observed searching patterns in differentiable NAS methods.

SNAS efficiently searches neural architectures using stochastic optimization.

problem Efficiently searching for optimal neural architectures.
method SNAS trains parameters of both neural operations and architecture distribution in a single round of backpropagation, using a novel search gradient and locally decomposable rewards.
result SNAS achieves state-of-the-art accuracy with fewer training epochs compared to other NAS methods.

FiGS searches over a larger space of architectures for efficient mobile models.

problem Designing small, efficient deep networks for mobile devices.
method Differentiable search method using sparse regularization and Logistic-Sigmoid distribution.
result FiGS produces state-of-the-art parameter-efficient models on ImageNet and improves object detection performance.

DANCE optimizes neural network and accelerator design for faster, more efficient DNN execution.

problem Challenges in optimizing neural network and accelerator design for efficient DNN execution.
method Differentiable approach to co-exploration of accelerator and network architecture design.
result Significantly shorter time to achieve superior accuracy and hardware cost metrics.

HardCoRe-NAS finds fitting neural networks adhering to hard resource constraints.

problem Finding fitting neural networks that adhere to hard resource constraints.
method Accurate formulation of resource requirement and scalable search method.
result HardCoRe-NAS generates state-of-the-art architectures strictly satisfying hard resource constraints.

Paper tackles unfair advantages in DARTS, presenting Fair DARTS to improve neural architecture search.

problem Performance collapse in DARTS due to unfair advantages in skip connections.
method Relax exclusive competition to collaborative, let architectural weights be independent, and use zero-one loss for discretization.
result New state-of-the-art results on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, demonstrating the effectiveness of Fair DARTS.

New method recovers transportable DAG structures from different datasets.

problem Inference of DAG structures is computationally expensive and lacks transportability.
method Introduces D-Struct, a differentiable architecture that recovers transportable DAG structures.
result D-Struct recovers transportable DAG structures from different datasets.

DARTS fails to generalize well; adding regularization improves robustness.

problem DARTS fails to find architectures that generalize well across different tasks.
method Identified failure modes, added regularization, proposed variations.
result Regularization robustifies DARTS to find better generalizing architectures.

PDNAS optimizes GNN architectures for diverse datasets.

problem Inadequate adaptability and combinatorial search space in GNNs.
method Dual architecture search (micro- and macro-architectures) with gradient-based optimization.
result PDNAS finds deeper GNNs with better performance on diverse datasets.

Bonsai-Net efficiently discovers state-of-the-art models with fewer parameters.

problem Efficiently discovering state-of-the-art neural architectures with minimal computational expense.
method Bonsai-Net uses a modified differential pruner to explore a relaxed search space.
result Bonsai-Net consistently discovers better architectures than random search with fewer parameters.

Paper presents an ADMM-based approach to efficiently integrate quadratic programming layers into neural networks.

problem Integrating quadratic programs into neural networks for optimization.
method An ADMM-based network layer architecture for solving quadratic programs efficiently.
result The ADMM layer is approximately an order of magnitude faster than existing methods for medium scaled problems.

Theory explains why DARTS favors deep architectures over shallow ones.

problem DARTS selects architectures with dominated skip connections, leading to performance degradation.
method Theoretical analysis of operations' effects on network optimization; introduces sparse binary gates and path-depth-wise regularization.
result Theoretical proof that architectures with more skip connections converge faster.

New neural stack and Turing Machine architectures prove stability and computational power.

problem Designing stable neural network architectures for Turing Machine simulation.
method Introducing neural stack and Turing Machine architectures, proving stability and computational equivalence.
result Differentiable nnTM with bounded neurons can simulate Turing Machine in real-time and is equivalent to UTM.

Proposes a new method to optimize graph neural network architectures on heterogeneous information networks.

problem Weaknesses in instability and inflexibility of existing graph neural architecture search methods.
method Partial Message Meta Multigraph search (PMMM) using a differentiable framework to search for a meaningful meta multigraph.
result Significantly more stable and effective than state-of-the-art heterogeneous GNNs.

DrNAS improves neural architecture search with Dirichlet distribution and progressive learning.

problem Efficiently search for neural architectures with improved generalization and exploration.
method Formulates architecture search as a distribution learning problem using Dirichlet distribution and gradient-based optimization. Introduces a progressive learning scheme to handle large-scale tasks.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, demonstrating improved generalization and exploration.

DARC learns resource-efficient models by replacing expensive components with cheaper ones.

problem Resource constraints at inference time are more severe than at training time.
method Combines model compression and architecture search to learn resource-efficient models.
result Improves inference speed and memory footprint with minimal accuracy loss.

New methods speed up training of differentially private deep learning models.

problem Training differentially private deep learning models is slower than non-private models.
method Derive and implement new per-example gradient clipping methods compatible with auto-differentiation.
result Significant training speed-ups (54x - 94x) for various models and architectures.

Differentiable Algorithm Networks (DAN) enable composable robot learning.

problem Training robots to learn from limited data and imperfect models.
method Composable architecture of neural network modules, each encoding a differentiable robot algorithm and model, trained end-to-end from data.
result DAN modules adapt to one another and compensate for imperfect models and algorithms, achieving best overall system performance.

This work proposes searching for optimal operation distribution in neural architecture search.

problem Finding optimal neural architecture with specific operations and connections.
method Search for the optimal operation distribution, providing a stochastic and approximate solution.
result Operation distribution holds enough discriminating power to reliably identify a solution and is easier to optimise than traditional encodings.

ProxylessNAS directly optimizes neural architectures for large-scale tasks without proxy tasks.

problem Inefficient and costly neural architecture search for large-scale tasks.
method Directly learns neural architectures for large-scale tasks and hardware platforms without proxy tasks.
result Achieves better performance and efficiency than previous methods.

Analyzes RNNs using ODEs to map their properties and improve stability.

problem Understanding and improving the stability of RNNs.
method Relates RNNs to ODEs, mapping their properties to integration methods.
result Establishes sufficient conditions for RNN training stability and designs new architectures.

This paper presents OptNet, a network architecture that integrates optimization problems (here, specifically in the form of quadratic programs) as individual layers in larger end-to-end trainable deep networks. These layers encode constraints and complex dependencies between the hidden states that traditional convoluti…

2017-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient-based method extracts slow features from high-dimensional data.

problem Extracting meaningful low-dimensional features from high-dimensional, temporally varying data.
method Power Slow Feature Analysis (PowerSFA) using gradient-based training of differentiable architectures.
result PowerSFA effectively extracts meaningful low-dimensional features in various data types.

CRUs model irregular time series with continuous hidden states.

problem Handling irregular time intervals in sequential data.
method Continuous Recurrent Units (CRUs) that integrate hidden states via a linear stochastic differential equation.
result CRUs outperform methods based on neural ordinary differential equations in irregular time series interpolation.

NDM incorporates geometric structure into neural networks for better optimization and interpretability.

problem Efficient and interpretable deep learning architectures.
method NDM is a neural network architecture that explicitly incorporates geometric structure into its design, using a Coordinate Layer, Geometric Layer, and Evolution Layer.
result NDM provides intrinsic regularization, enhancing generalization and robustness.

We provide a proof of backpropagation algorithm in matrix notation.

problem The lack of a full induction proof of backpropagation algorithm in matrix notation.
method We provide a full induction proof of the BP algorithm in matrix notation, situating it in the framework of matrix differential calculus.
result We prove the validity of the backpropagation algorithm in inductive form.

Novel NAS method balances performance and hardware metrics efficiently.

problem Challenging multi-objective optimization in neural architecture search.
method Parameterizes joint architectural distribution via hypernetwork conditioned on hardware features and preferences.
result Zero-shot transferability to new devices with representative and diverse architectures.