New benchmarks provide full training data for NAS research.
problem Limited training data on popular benchmarks restricts multi-fidelity techniques.
method SVD and noise modeling to create surrogate benchmarks with full training info.
result Learning curve extrapolation framework improves single-fidelity algorithms.
NAS-Bench-Suite simplifies NAS evaluation across diverse tasks.
problem Limited and inconsistent NAS benchmarks hinder research reproducibility.
method Developed a comprehensive, extensible NAS benchmark suite.
result Many NAS conclusions do not generalize across different benchmarks.
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.
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…
Study accelerates NAS research with a large dataset of ZC proxies.
problem Speeding up neural architecture search with ZC proxies.
method Created NAS-Bench-Suite, evaluated 13 ZC proxies across 28 tasks, and provided a unified codebase.
result ZC proxies capture substantial complementary information and can improve NAS algorithm performance.
A framework benchmarks and dissects one-shot neural architecture search methods.
problem Understanding the dynamics and components of one-shot NAS methods.
method General framework for one-shot NAS, benchmarking with NAS-Bench-101.
result Comparison of one-shot NAS methods and their sensitivity to hyperparameters.
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.
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.
Smooth embedding space improves NAS performance.
problem Efficiently predicting good neural architectures.
method Two-sided variational graph autoencoder.
result Smooth embedding space facilitates extrapolation to unseen architectures.
Automates neural network design without training, speeding up search by seconds.
problem Time and effort in hand-designing deep neural networks.
method Predict trained accuracy from untrained network state using activation overlap.
result Search for powerful networks in seconds, verified on various benchmarks.
Guided Evolution improves NAS efficiency and accuracy.
problem NAS methods converge to local minima and are complex.
method G-EA: guided evolutionary approach with initialization evaluation and continuous knowledge extraction.
result G-EA achieves state-of-the-art results in CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet16-120.
Neural Architecture Search remains a very challenging meta-learning problem. Several recent techniques based on parameter-sharing idea have focused on reducing the NAS running time by leveraging proxy models, leading to architectures with competitive performance compared to those with hand-crafted designs. In this pape…
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.
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.
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.
Defines metrics to compare neural network representations.
problem Comparing neural network representations across different architectures and tasks.
method Developed a family of metric spaces and modified existing measures to quantify representational dissimilarity.
result Identified relationships between neural representations and anatomical features.
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.
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.
LC-PFN predicts learning curve performance more accurately and faster than MCMC.
problem Bayesian extrapolation of learning curves is computationally expensive and overly restrictive.
method Prior-Data Fitted Neural Networks (PFNs) for approximate Bayesian inference.
result LC-PFN outperforms MCMC in accuracy and is significantly faster.
Study explores calibration properties in neural architectures.
problem Calibration issues in deep neural networks despite improved accuracy.
method Leverages Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to evaluate 117,702 neural networks.
result Identifies key architectural designs beneficial for calibration.