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48 results for architecture search

FiGS searches over a larger space of architectures for efficient mobile models.

problem Designing small, efficient deep networks for mobile devices.
method Differentiable search method using sparse regularization and Logistic-Sigmoid distribution.
result FiGS produces state-of-the-art parameter-efficient models on ImageNet and improves object detection performance.

DNAS disentangles neural architecture search for better interpretability and performance.

problem Lack of interpretability in existing neural architecture search methods.
method DNAS disentangles the hidden representation of the controller into semantically meaningful concepts.
result DNAS achieves state-of-the-art performance and competitive architectures.

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.

Differentially-private FNAS protects privacy while collaboratively searching for neural architectures.

problem Collaborative neural architecture search with privacy concerns.
method Federated Neural Architecture Search (FNAS) with differential privacy (DP-FNAS).
result DP-FNAS can search for highly-performant neural architectures while protecting individual parties' privacy.

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.

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final evaluation. Architectures with a higher validation accuracy during the search phas…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.

problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.

Contrastive embeddings improve neural architecture search performance.

problem Improving performance of neural architecture search algorithms.
method Contrastive learning to identify networks based on data Jacobians and produce embeddings.
result Traditional black-box optimization algorithms can reach state-of-the-art performance with contrastive embeddings.

This work proposes searching for optimal operation distribution in neural architecture search.

problem Finding optimal neural architecture with specific operations and connections.
method Search for the optimal operation distribution, providing a stochastic and approximate solution.
result Operation distribution holds enough discriminating power to reliably identify a solution and is easier to optimise than traditional encodings.

einspace expands NAS search space to include diverse neural architectures.

problem NAS results are often limited to existing structures; new designs are rare.
method einspace uses a probabilistic context-free grammar to create a versatile search space.
result einspace discovers novel and improved architectures, including convolutions and attention.

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enabled the discovery of state-of-the-art architectures in many domains. However, the success of NAS depends on the definition of the search space. Current search spaces are defined as a static sequence of decisions and a set of available actions for each decision. Each possible sequenc…

2018-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper addresses the scalability challenge of architecture search by formulating the task in a differentiable manner. Unlike conventional approaches of applying evolution or reinforcement learning over a discrete and non-differentiable search space, our method is based on the continuous relaxation of the architectu…

2018-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search methods are able to find high performance deep learning architectures with minimal effort from an expert. However, current systems focus on specific use-cases (e.g. convolutional image classifiers and recurrent language models), making them unsuitable for general use-cases that an expert migh…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

GATES improves neural architecture search by modeling operations as information transformation.

problem Improving predictor-based neural architecture search efficiency.
method GATES models operations as information transformation, covering both node and edge cell search spaces.
result GATES boosts sample efficiency and improves predictor performance.

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.

Optimizes neural architecture search to generate novel lightweight models.

problem Over-reliance on expert knowledge limits NAS to local optima, preventing architectural breakthroughs.
method Casts NAS as an optimization problem, introduces a hierarchical graph-based search space, and uses Bayesian optimization.
result Generates extremely lightweight yet competitive models on six benchmark datasets.

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 ↗

Extends NAS to learn both intra-cell and inter-cell architectures for language modeling.

problem Limited NAS systems restrict search to recurrent or convolutional cells.
method Designs a joint learning method to perform intra-cell and inter-cell NAS simultaneously.
result Significantly outperforms a strong baseline on PTB and WikiText data.

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 ↗

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 ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They are constrained by the available computation resources, especially in enterprise e…

2019-10-19abs ↗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 ↗

For network architecture search (NAS), it is crucial but challenging to simultaneously guarantee both effectiveness and efficiency. Towards achieving this goal, we develop a differentiable NAS solution, where the search space includes arbitrary feed-forward network consisting of the predefined number of connections. Be…

2019-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural architecture search (NAS) automatically finds the best task-specific neural network topology, outperforming many manual architecture designs. However, it can be prohibitively expensive as the search requires training thousands of different networks, while each can last for hours. In this work, we propose the Gra…

2018-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to study Meta Architecture Search which aims at learning a task-agnostic representation…

2018-12-22abs ↗pdf ↗

FedNAS automates federated learning by searching for better architectures.

problem Non-I.I.D. data makes predefined model architectures suboptimal.
method Federated Neural Architecture Search (FedNAS) for collaborative architecture optimization.
result FedNAS searches for better architectures that outperform predefined models.

DONNA rapidly finds optimal neural networks across diverse spaces.

problem Efficient scaling and handling of diverse architectural search-spaces in NAS.
method Three-phase pipeline: accuracy predictor, rapid evolutionary search, and optimal model finetuning.
result 100x faster than MNasNet in finding state-of-the-art architectures on-device.

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 ↗

DC-NAS improves neural architecture search by clustering and evaluating sub-networks.

problem Inaccurate evaluation of neural architectures in large search spaces.
method Divide-and-Conquer approach: feature representation, clustering, and evaluation of clusters.
result Achieved 75.1% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, surpassing state-of-the-art methods.

We explore efficient neural architecture search methods and show that a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm can discover new architectures with excellent performance. Our approach combines a novel hierarchical genetic representation scheme that imitates the modularized design pattern commonly adopted by human ex…

2017-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

NPENAS improves neural architecture search efficiency and accuracy.

problem Efficient and accurate neural architecture search (NAS) for minimizing search costs.
method Proposes NPENAS, a neural predictor guided evolutionary algorithm that enhances exploration ability of evolutionary algorithms.
result NPENAS-BO and NPENAS-NP outperform existing NAS algorithms on NASBench-201, NASBench-101, and DARTS.

Paper evaluates robustness of NAS against poisoning attacks.

problem Robustness of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) against poisoning attacks.
method Evaluation of Efficient NAS (ENAS) against carefully designed ineffective operations in poisoning attacks.
result Demonstrates how poisoning attacks exploit design flaws in ENAS controller.