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A graph VAE framework optimizes neural architectures in a continuous space.
Bayesian optimization reduces RNN architecture search time.
Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. However, even a well-searched architecture may still contain many non-significant o…
Deep learning models' architectures, including depth and width, are key factors influencing models' performance, such as test accuracy and computation time. This paper solves two problems: given computation time budget, choose an architecture to maximize accuracy, and given accuracy requirement, choose an architecture …
NAS helps find best neural network designs.
New method improves neural architecture search by optimizing for both performance and diversity.
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…
New algorithms improve neural architecture search with faster convergence.
DONNA rapidly finds optimal neural networks across diverse spaces.
Optimizes neural architecture search to generate novel lightweight models.
NAS for financial time series forecasts using chain-structured architectures.
Proposes baselines for joint NAS and HPO optimization.
The performance of Feedforward neural network (FNN) fully de-pends upon the selection of architecture and training algorithm. FNN architecture can be tweaked using several parameters, such as the number of hidden layers, number of hidden neurons at each hidden layer and number of connections between layers. There may b…
MiLeNAS improves neural architecture search by reducing approximation errors and achieving better accuracy.
This study uncovers how neural architectures and weights interact in classification tasks.
We propose a new scalable method to optimize the architecture of an artificial neural network. The proposed algorithm, called Greedy Search for Neural Network Architecture, aims to determine a neural network with minimal number of layers that is at least as performant as neural networks of the same structure identified…
Automatic neural architecture design has shown its potential in discovering powerful neural network architectures. Existing methods, no matter based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithms (EA), conduct architecture search in a discrete space, which is highly inefficient. In this paper, we propose a simple…
This paper introduces a novel optimization method for differential neural architecture search, based on the theory of prediction with expert advice. Its optimization criterion is well fitted for an architecture-selection, i.e., it minimizes the regret incurred by a sub-optimal selection of operations. Unlike previous s…
Optimal transport kernels improve neural architecture search efficiency.
Bayesian Optimization tackles hidden constraints in architecture optimization.
Max-pooling architectures are theoretically analyzed and shown to be globally optimized and generalize well.
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…
New neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities are optimal in function space.
The term Neural Architecture Search (NAS) refers to the automatic optimization of network architectures for a new, previously unknown task. Since testing an architecture is computationally very expensive, many optimizers need days or even weeks to find suitable architectures. However, this search time can be significan…
Paper tackles NAS problem by modeling it as a sparse supernet.
NeuralArTS categorizes neural ops in a type system for NAS.
New method escapes local optima in neural architecture optimization.
Automates fairness and accuracy optimization in deep learning models for tabular data.
This study optimizes quantized neural networks by considering model architecture and quantization types.
Sensor fusion is a key technology that integrates various sensory inputs to allow for robust decision making in many applications such as autonomous driving and robot control. Deep neural networks have been adopted for sensor fusion in a body of recent studies. Among these, the so-called netgated architecture was propo…
In practical Bayesian optimization, we must often search over structures with differing numbers of parameters. For instance, we may wish to search over neural network architectures with an unknown number of layers. To relate performance data gathered for different architectures, we define a new kernel for conditional p…
Optimizing a neural network's performance is a tedious and time taking process, this iterative process does not have any defined solution which can work for all the problems. Optimization can be roughly categorized into - Architecture and Hyperparameter optimization. Many algorithms have been devised to address this pr…
Optimizes SGD for anytime neural networks, improving accuracy.
Neural architecture search (NAS) recently attracts much research attention because of its ability to identify better architectures than handcrafted ones. However, many NAS methods, which optimize the search process in a discrete search space, need many GPU days for convergence. Recently, DARTS, which constructs a diffe…
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 …
PDNAS optimizes GNN architectures for diverse datasets.
FedNAS automates federated learning by searching for better architectures.
Two new algorithms improve neural architecture search efficiency.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have long been recognized for their potential to model complex time series. However, it remains to be determined what optimization techniques and recurrent architectures can be used to best realize this potential. The experiments presented take a deep look into Hessian free optimization…
Bayesian optimization (BO) is an effective method of finding the global optima of black-box functions. Recently BO has been applied to neural architecture search and shows better performance than pure evolutionary strategies. All these methods adopt Gaussian processes (GPs) as surrogate function, with the handcraft sim…
Recurrent neural network (RNN)'s architecture is a key factor influencing its performance. We propose algorithms to optimize hidden sizes under running time constraint. We convert the discrete optimization into a subset selection problem. By novel transformations, the objective function becomes submodular and constrain…
DrNAS improves neural architecture search with Dirichlet distribution and progressive learning.
A method for faster neural architecture search using low-fidelity training.
Method generates resource-optimized ML models for different platforms.
Asynchronous method for hyperparameter and neural architecture search.
High sensitivity of neural architecture search (NAS) methods against their input such as step-size (i.e., learning rate) and search space prevents practitioners from applying them out-of-the-box to their own problems, albeit its purpose is to automate a part of tuning process. Aiming at a fast, robust, and widely-appli…
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…
Paper proposes an efficient bandit-based algorithm for hyperparameter optimization.