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48 results for NAS benchmarks

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.

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.

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.

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 ↗

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.

A benchmark for NLP models trained on text datasets.

problem Limited access to high-performance clusters for NAS experiments.
method Created a search space for recurrent neural networks on text datasets and trained 14k architectures.
result Demonstrated the potential of precomputed NAS results for NLP.

Recent advances in neural architecture search (NAS) demand tremendous computational resources, which makes it difficult to reproduce experiments and imposes a barrier-to-entry to researchers without access to large-scale computation. We aim to ameliorate these problems by introducing NAS-Bench-101, the first public arc…

2019-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an exciting new field which promises to be as much as a game-changer as Convolutional Neural Networks were in 2012. Despite many great works leading to substantial improvements on a variety of tasks, comparison between different methods is still very much an open issue. While most al…

2019-12-28abs ↗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.

The recent progress in neural architecture search (NAS) has allowed scaling the automated design of neural architectures to real-world domains, such as object detection and semantic segmentation. However, one prerequisite for the application of NAS are large amounts of labeled data and compute resources. This renders i…

2019-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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 ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an emerging topic in machine learning and computer vision. The fundamental ideology of NAS is using an automatic mechanism to replace manual designs for exploring powerful network architectures. One of the key factors of NAS is to scale-up the search space, e.g., increasing the numbe…

2019-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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.

Weight-sharing (WS) has recently emerged as a paradigm to accelerate the automated search for efficient neural architectures, a process dubbed Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Although very appealing, this framework is not without drawbacks and several works have started to question its capabilities on small hand-craf…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates GNN design for molecular property prediction.

problem Designing and tuning GNN architectures for molecular property prediction is labor-intensive.
method Developed a NAS approach to automatically discover high-performing GNN architectures for MPNNs.
result Automatically discovered MPNNs outperform manually designed GNNs in molecular property prediction.

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 ↗

AgEBO-Tabular combines NAS and hyperparameter tuning for fast, high-performing tabular models.

problem Developing high-performing predictive models for large tabular data sets is challenging.
method Combines aging evolution NAS and asynchronous Bayesian optimization for hyperparameter tuning in data-parallel training.
result Automatically discovered neural network models outperform state-of-the-art AutoML ensembles in inference speed by two orders of magnitude.

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 ↗

Graph neural networks (GNN) has been successfully applied to operate on the graph-structured data. Given a specific scenario, rich human expertise and tremendous laborious trials are usually required to identify a suitable GNN architecture. It is because the performance of a GNN architecture is significantly affected b…

2019-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved hyperparameter optimization using simplified Transformer blocks.

problem Discovering optimal architectures in high-dimensional search spaces with limited exploration budgets.
method Simplified Transformer block for modeling hyper-parameter dependencies, actor-critic style algorithm, ensembling.
result Outperformed most algorithms on NAS-Bench-101 and Random Search in discovering more accurate model architectures.

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.

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.

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 ↗

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 ↗

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.

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.

Neural attention (NA) has become a key component of sequence-to-sequence models that yield state-of-the-art performance in as hard tasks as abstractive document summarization (ADS) and video captioning (VC). NA mechanisms perform inference of context vectors; these constitute weighted sums of deterministic input sequen…

2018-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗