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48 results for NAS Framework

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to facilitate the design of deep networks for new tasks. Existing techniques rely on two stages: searching over the architecture space and validating the best architecture. NAS algorithms are currently compared solely based on their results on the downstream task. While intuitive, …

2019-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

BS-NAS broadens and shrinks search space for optimal neural architectures.

problem Suboptimal channel numbers and model averaging effects in One-Shot NAS methods.
method Broadening with spring block for channel search, shrinking with underperforming operations removal, evolutionary algorithm for optimal architecture search.
result BS-NAS achieves state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet.

In this paper, a neural architecture search (NAS) framework is proposed for 3D medical image segmentation, to automatically optimize a neural architecture from a large design space. Our NAS framework searches the structure of each layer including neural connectivities and operation types in both of the encoder and deco…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

If NAS methods are solutions, what is the problem? Most existing NAS methods require two-stage parameter optimization. However, performance of the same architecture in the two stages correlates poorly. In this work, we propose a new problem definition for NAS, task-specific end-to-end, based on this observation. We arg…

2020-02-21abs ↗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 ↗

New algorithms improve neural architecture search with faster convergence.

problem Improving efficiency and accuracy of neural architecture search.
method Geometry-aware gradient algorithms to optimize continuous relaxation of discrete search spaces.
result Exceeds state-of-the-art results on CIFAR and ImageNet benchmarks.

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to discover network architectures with desired properties such as high accuracy or low latency. Recently, differentiable NAS (DNAS) has demonstrated promising results while maintaining a search cost orders of magnitude lower than reinforcement learning (RL) based NAS. However, DNAS…

2019-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved software flaw detection using NAS on multimodal DL models.

problem Software flaw detection in multimodal deep learning models.
method Adapted NAS framework for multimodal learning, combined with multimodal deep learning models.
result Improved performance on the Juliet Test Suite.

Optimal transport kernels improve neural architecture search efficiency.

problem Comparing complex neural architectures similarity using Euclidean metric fails.
method Developed a novel discrepancy using tree-Wasserstein (TW) for neural architectures.
result TW-based approaches outperform other methods in sequential and parallel NAS.

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.

WeakNAS uses a set of weaker predictors to find top architectures with fewer samples.

problem Finding the best neural architecture with heavy computation costs.
method Proposes a paradigm shift from fitting the whole architecture space to progressively fitting a search path through a set of weaker predictors.
result WeakNAS produces coarse-to-fine iteration to gradually refine the ranking of sampling space, requiring fewer samples to find top-performance architectures.

BRP-NAS uses GCNs to predict neural network performance for more efficient NAS.

problem Inaccurate performance metrics in NAS lead to suboptimal model designs.
method Proposes BRP-NAS, a hardware-aware NAS using GCNs for accurate performance prediction.
result BRP-NAS outperforms previous methods on NAS-Bench-101 and 201, improving model sample efficiency.

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 ↗

Can we automatically design a Convolutional Network (ConvNet) with the highest image classification accuracy under the latency constraint of a mobile device? Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ConvNet design is a challenging problem due to the combinatorially large design space and search time (at least 200 GPU-hours…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves neural architecture search by optimizing for both performance and diversity.

problem Traditional multi-objective NAS fails to address practical constraints and niches.
method Formulated as quality diversity optimization, introduces multifidelity optimizers.
result Quality diversity NAS outperforms multi-objective NAS in quality and efficiency.

Paper tackles NAS problem by modeling it as a sparse supernet.

problem Neural Architecture Search (NAS) problem, particularly Mixed-Path Search.
method Model NAS as a sparse supernet with sparsity constraints. Use hierarchical accelerated proximal gradient algorithm for optimization.
result Proposed method finds compact, general, and powerful neural architectures.

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.

Finding a well-performing architecture is often tedious for both DL practitioners and researchers, leading to tremendous interest in the automation of this task by means of neural architecture search (NAS). Although the community has made major strides in developing better NAS methods, the quality of scientific empiric…

2019-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising research direction that has the potential to replace expert-designed networks with learned, task-specific architectures. In this work, in order to help ground the empirical results in this field, we propose new NAS baselines that build off the following observations: (i) …

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Proposes baselines for joint NAS and HPO optimization.

problem Joint optimization of neural architecture and hyperparameters for multiple objectives.
method Extends existing methods to jointly optimize with multiple objectives.
result Serves as simple baselines for future multi-objective joint NAS + HPO research.

Recent breakthroughs in Neural Architectural Search (NAS) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks such as image classification and language understanding. However, most existing works only optimize for model accuracy and largely ignore other important factors imposed by the underlying hardware and devi…

2018-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This study analyzes NAS benchmarks and finds that only a subset of operations is crucial for generating high-performing architectures.

problem NAS benchmarks lack generability and provide skewed performance distributions, leading to unreliable comparisons.
method Empirical analysis of widely used NAS benchmarks (101, 201, TransNAS-Bench-101) focusing on operation importance and generability.
result Only a subset of operations is necessary to generate architectures close to the upper-bound performance range, and convolution layers have the highest impact.

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.

This work benchmarks and theorizes robust NAS under adversarial training.

problem Lack of benchmark evaluations and theoretical guarantees for robust NAS architectures under adversarial training.
method Released a comprehensive data set and established a generalization theory using the neural tangent kernel.
result Established a generalization theory for robust NAS architectures under adversarial training.

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 ↗

Study evaluates 31 performance predictors in NAS, recommending best for different settings.

problem Understanding and comparing different performance prediction techniques in NAS.
method Analysis of 31 techniques, testing correlation and rank-based measures, speed-up potential.
result Certain predictor families can be combined for better predictive power.

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 ↗

Paper shows equivalence between NA and ACLMM in diffusion models.

problem No arbitrage condition and existence of ACLMM in general diffusion models.
method Investigates equivalence between NA and ACLMM in single asset diffusion market models.
result NA is equivalent to ACLMM plus mild conditions on scale function and absence of reflecting boundaries.

Deep learning (DL) techniques have penetrated all aspects of our lives and brought us great convenience. However, building a high-quality DL system for a specific task highly relies on human expertise, hindering the applications of DL to more areas. Automated machine learning (AutoML) becomes a promising solution to bu…

2019-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗