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48 results for Efficient Neural Architectures

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for efficient architecture search called EENA (Efficient Evolution of Neural Archit…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A graph VAE framework optimizes neural architectures in a continuous space.

problem Discovering efficient neural architectures in a discrete space.
method Graph VAE framework with VAE and GNN components, joint learning of predictors and decoders.
result The framework discovers powerful neural architectures with both excellent performance and high computational efficiency.

Graph Metanetworks process diverse neural architectures efficiently.

problem Processing diverse neural architectures efficiently.
method Builds metanetworks using graph neural networks to process graphs representing input neural networks.
result Proves GMNs are expressive and equivariant to parameter permutation symmetries.

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.

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed to automatically tune deep neural networks, but existing search algorithms, e.g., NASNet, PNAS, usually suffer from expensive computational cost. Network morphism, which keeps the functionality of a neural network while changing its neural architecture, could be helpfu…

2018-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

NPENAS improves neural architecture search efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficient and accurate neural architecture search (NAS) for minimizing search costs.
method Proposes NPENAS, a neural predictor guided evolutionary algorithm that enhances exploration ability of evolutionary algorithms.
result NPENAS-BO and NPENAS-NP outperform existing NAS algorithms on NASBench-201, NASBench-101, and DARTS.

Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.

problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.

MiLeNAS improves neural architecture search by reducing approximation errors and achieving better accuracy.

problem Improving efficiency and accuracy in neural architecture search (NAS).
method Mixed-level reformulation (MiLeNAS) to optimize efficiently and reliably.
result MiLeNAS achieves lower validation error and higher accuracy than bilevel optimization methods.

Enhanced tabular benchmarks for energy-efficient neural architecture search.

problem Energy consumption in deep learning models.
method Introducing EC-NAS, an enhanced tabular benchmark with energy consumption data.
result EC-NAS reveals a balance between energy usage and accuracy in neural architecture search.

Study compares LSTM and ANN architectures for forex prediction, finding ANN more efficient.

problem Forex time series prediction efficiency and resource usage.
method Comparison of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and specialized ANN architectures.
result Specialized ANN architecture performs better with fewer resources and faster execution.

GATES improves neural architecture search by modeling operations as information transformation.

problem Improving predictor-based neural architecture search efficiency.
method GATES models operations as information transformation, covering both node and edge cell search spaces.
result GATES boosts sample efficiency and improves predictor performance.

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.

The use of automatic methods, often referred to as Neural Architecture Search (NAS), in designing neural network architectures has recently drawn considerable attention. In this work, we present an efficient NAS approach, named HM- NAS, that generalizes existing weight sharing based NAS approaches. Existing weight shar…

2019-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradients of neural networks can be computed efficiently for any architecture, but some applications require differential operators with higher time complexity. We describe a family of restricted neural network architectures that allow efficient computation of a family of differential operators involving dimension-wise…

2019-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework generates large hierarchical search spaces for neural architectures.

problem Discovering neural architectures from simple blocks is hard.
method Context-free grammars for a unified, scalable search space.
result Efficiently searches over complete architectures, outperforming existing methods.

We explore efficient neural architecture search methods and show that a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm can discover new architectures with excellent performance. Our approach combines a novel hierarchical genetic representation scheme that imitates the modularized design pattern commonly adopted by human ex…

2017-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm with reinforcement learning can be a powerful and novel framework for the automatic discovering process of neural architectures. However, its application is restricted by noncontinuous and high-dimensional search spaces, which result in difficulty in optimization. To resol…

2019-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

CLEAS improves neural architecture search for continual learning.

problem Overcoming catastrophic forgetting and adapting to new tasks while controlling model complexity.
method Neural architecture search (NAS) with reinforcement learning to find optimal neural architecture.
result CLEAS achieves higher classification accuracy with simpler neural architectures.

We propose Stochastic Neural Architecture Search (SNAS), an economical end-to-end solution to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) that trains neural operation parameters and architecture distribution parameters in same round of back-propagation, while maintaining the completeness and differentiability of the NAS pipeline.…

2018-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

DNAS disentangles neural architecture search for better interpretability and performance.

problem Lack of interpretability in existing neural architecture search methods.
method DNAS disentangles the hidden representation of the controller into semantically meaningful concepts.
result DNAS achieves state-of-the-art performance and competitive architectures.

A method for faster neural architecture search using low-fidelity training.

problem Time-consuming evaluations in neural architecture search.
method Bayesian multi-fidelity method with knowledge distillation.
result Training for a few epochs with knowledge distillation leads to better architecture selection.

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large computational graph. The controller is trained with policy gradient to select a su…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search has been shown to hold great promise towards the automation of deep learning. However in spite of its potential, neural architecture search remains quite costly. To this point, we propose a novel gradient-based framework for efficient architecture search by sharing information across several …

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the performance metric to be optimized (e.g., accuracy), leading to sample-inefficient exp…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Designing the architecture for an artificial neural network is a cumbersome task because of the numerous parameters to configure, including activation functions, layer types, and hyper-parameters. With the large number of parameters for most networks nowadays, it is intractable to find a good configuration for a given …

2018-10-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Image compression using neural networks have reached or exceeded non-neural methods (such as JPEG, WebP, BPG). While these networks are state of the art in ratedistortion performance, computational feasibility of these models remains a challenge. We apply automatic network optimization techniques to reduce the computat…

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In class-incremental learning, a model learns continuously from a sequential data stream in which new classes occur. Existing methods often rely on static architectures that are manually crafted. These methods can be prone to capacity saturation because a neural network's ability to generalize to new concepts is limite…

2019-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

SOTERIA optimizes neural networks for secure inference with minimal overhead.

problem Protecting user privacy in ML-as-a-service models with low overhead.
method Neural architecture search with dual objectives of accuracy and cryptographic efficiency.
result SOTERIA constructs efficient models for secure inference.

Paper evaluates robustness of NAS against poisoning attacks.

problem Robustness of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) against poisoning attacks.
method Evaluation of Efficient NAS (ENAS) against carefully designed ineffective operations in poisoning attacks.
result Demonstrates how poisoning attacks exploit design flaws in ENAS controller.

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.

Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the other hand, evolutionary algorithms offer higher sample efficiency, which is criti…

2018-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search methods are effective but often use complex algorithms to come up with the best architecture. We propose an approach with three basic steps that is conceptually much simpler. First we train N random architectures to generate N (architecture, validation accuracy) pairs and use them to train a …

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Review of efficient neural networks for TinyML on resource-constrained devices.

problem Resource constraints on ultra-low power MCUs for deep learning models.
method Model compression, quantization, low-rank factorization, model pruning, hardware acceleration, algorithm-architecture co-design.
result Optimized neural network architectures for minimal resource utilization on MCUs.