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48 results for One-Shot NAS

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.

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.

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.

Study reduces NAS search cost by generating multiple complex architectures in one shot.

problem Finding multiple neural architectures with varying complexities efficiently.
method Uses importance sampling to generate and update multiple distributions of architectures.
result Reduces search cost by finding multiple architectures with different complexities in a single search.

Paper connects neural network hyperparameter optimization and NAS to structured sparse recovery.

problem Hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search in neural networks.
method Structured sparse recovery methods applied to HPO and NAS.
result Improvements in hyperparameter optimization and discovery of novel neural architectures.

The ability to rank candidate architectures is the key to the performance of neural architecture search~(NAS). One-shot NAS is proposed to reduce the expense but shows inferior performance against conventional NAS and is not adequately stable. We investigate into this and find that the ranking correlation between archi…

2019-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The emergence of neural architecture search (NAS) has greatly advanced the research on network design. Recent proposals such as gradient-based methods or one-shot approaches significantly boost the efficiency of NAS. In this paper, we formulate the NAS problem from a Bayesian perspective. We propose explicitly estimati…

2019-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

One-Shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a promising method to significantly reduce search time without any separate training. It can be treated as a Network Compression problem on the architecture parameters from an over-parameterized network. However, there are two issues associated with most one-shot NAS methods…

2019-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive correlation between the validation accuracy with inherited weights from the supe…

2019-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

NAS-Navigator automates neural network architecture search with visual steering.

problem Difficulty in configuring large neural networks efficiently.
method Formulates architecture optimization as graph space exploration, trains all candidate architectures in one-shot.
result Allows analysts to effectively select and guide the search for optimal neural network architectures.

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 ↗

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 ↗

CAOS aggregates multiple one-shot predictors for efficient uncertainty quantification.

problem Lack of principled uncertainty quantification in one-shot prediction.
method CAOS, a conformal framework that aggregates multiple one-shot predictors and uses a leave-one-out calibration scheme.
result CAOS produces smaller prediction sets with reliable coverage compared to split conformal baselines.

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.

Study investigates one-shot semi-supervised learning for image classification.

problem Training deep networks requires many labeled samples, limiting adoption.
method Empirical investigation of FixMatch method for one-shot semi-supervised learning.
result Uneven class accuracy is a barrier to high performance in one-shot semi-supervised learning.

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 ↗

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.

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.

A practical one-shot federated learning algorithm for cross-silo setting.

problem Limited applicability of existing one-shot federated learning algorithms due to specific model support and lack of privacy guarantees.
method FedKT, a one-shot federated learning algorithm that supports any classification models and provides differential privacy guarantees.
result FedKT significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art federated learning algorithms with a single communication round.

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 ↗

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.