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48 results for model architectures

Neural architecture search has been shown to hold great promise towards the automation of deep learning. However in spite of its potential, neural architecture search remains quite costly. To this point, we propose a novel gradient-based framework for efficient architecture search by sharing information across several …

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New model predicts neural network performance from early training epochs, incorporating architecture impact.

problem Predicting neural network performance from early training epochs, neglecting architecture impact.
method Architecture-aware graph ordinary differential equation model.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods for MLP and CNN learning curves.

Neural Architecture Search methods are effective but often use complex algorithms to come up with the best architecture. We propose an approach with three basic steps that is conceptually much simpler. First we train N random architectures to generate N (architecture, validation accuracy) pairs and use them to train a …

2019-12-02abs ↗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.

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.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful class of generative models. Despite their successes, the most appropriate choice of a GAN network architecture is still not well understood. GAN models for image synthesis have adopted a deep convolutional network architecture, which eliminates or minimizes the use …

2019-05-07abs ↗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.

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.

This work maps Boltzmann distributions to ARNNs for better physics-based model approximations.

problem Approximating Boltzmann distributions of binary systems.
method Exact mapping of Boltzmann distribution to autoregressive neural network architecture.
result New ARNN architectures derived from physical models show superior performance.

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.

We introduce SADs to reveal how network architecture shapes score-based generative models.

problem Understanding and predicting the inductive biases of score-based generative models.
method Introducing Score Anisotropy Directions (SADs) to analyze network architecture.
result SADs reliably capture model behavior and correlate with performance.

Conventional Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims at finding a single architecture that achieves the best performance, which usually optimizes task related learning objectives such as accuracy. However, a single architecture may not be representative enough for the whole dataset with high diversity and variety. Intuit…

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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 ↗

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.

Recent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has shown promising signs of improving GAN training via architectural change. Despite some early success, at present the design of GAN architectures requires human expertise, laborious trial-and-error testings, and often draws inspiration from its image classifi…

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on how convolutional architectures approximate time series data.

problem Understanding the approximation properties of convolutional architectures in time series modeling.
method Mathematical analysis of convolutional architectures applied to time series modeling.
result A new definition of spectrum-based regularity for measuring temporal relationships under convolutional approximation.

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 ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

PETRA enables parallel training of deep models with reversible architectures.

problem Challenges in parallelizing deep model training.
method Introduces PETRA, a novel approach for parallelizing gradient computations in reversible architectures.
result Achieves competitive accuracies on CIFAR-10, ImageNet32, and ImageNet using ResNet models.

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 ↗

Efficient algorithm finds fast Transformer models.

problem Slow inference time of Transformer models.
method Decompose Transformer architecture into components, use sampling-based one-shot search.
result Achieved 10% to 30% speedup on pre-trained BERT and 70% on top of a previous state-of-the-art model.

This research compares masked diffusion models to autoregressive language models, focusing on architectural differences.

problem Comparing masked diffusion models to autoregressive language models due to architectural differences.
method Equitably compare MDMs within a decoder-only framework, investigating architectural influences.
result Decoder-only MDMs can achieve significant speedups and comparable perplexity with temperature annealing.

In this paper, we present a new comparative study on automatic essay scoring (AES). The current state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) neural network architectures are used in this work to achieve above human-level accuracy on the publicly available Kaggle AES dataset. We compare two powerful language model…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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…

2018-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The process of designing neural architectures requires expert knowledge and extensive trial and error. While automated architecture search may simplify these requirements, the recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures generated by existing methods are limited in both flexibility and components. We propose a domain-s…

2017-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Research has shown that widely used deep neural networks are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. Moreover, these adversarial perturbations often transfer across models. We hypothesize that adversarial weakness is composed of three sources of bias: architecture, dataset, and random initialization.…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New approaches improve uncertainty quantification in autoregressive models for sequence data.

problem Uncertainty quantification in autoregressive models for exchangeable sequences.
method Study of inferential and architectural biases for autoregressive models, focusing on multi-step inference.
result Custom architectures are necessary for multi-step inference to ensure exchangeability.

A graph VAE framework optimizes neural architectures in a continuous space.

problem Discovering efficient neural architectures in a discrete space.
method Graph VAE framework with VAE and GNN components, joint learning of predictors and decoders.
result The framework discovers powerful neural architectures with both excellent performance and high computational efficiency.

Study optimizes deep learning models for sleep stage classification.

problem Time-consuming and inconsistent manual sleep stage scoring.
method Investigated architectural choices in encoder-predictor architectures for polysomnography recordings.
result Robust architectures improve sleep stage classification performance.

We propose Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a fast and inexpensive approach for automatic model design. In ENAS, a controller learns to discover neural network architectures by searching for an optimal subgraph within a large computational graph. The controller is trained with policy gradient to select a su…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

This study examines how model architecture affects deep learning model privacy.

problem Privacy concerns in deep learning models due to potential leakage of sensitive information.
method Investigation of CNNs and Transformers, focusing on activation layers, stem layers, LN layers, and attention modules.
result Transformers generally exhibit higher vulnerability to privacy attacks than CNNs.

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.

HMCNAS generates competitive neural architectures without human-defined parameters.

problem Lack of human-defined parameters in Neural Architecture Search.
method Combines Hidden Markov Chains and Bayesian Optimization for autonomous search space generation and competitive model generation.
result HMCNAS generates competitive models in a short time without human-defined parameters.