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48 results for search space design

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.

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.

Deep learning models require extensive architecture design exploration and hyperparameter optimization to perform well on a given task. The exploration of the model design space is often made by a human expert, and optimized using a combination of grid search and search heuristics over a large space of possible choices…

2017-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

HotNAS reduces AI search time from hundreds of GPU hours to less than 3 GPU hours.

problem High time required for AI solution generation from scratch.
method HotNAS starts from a 'hot' state using pre-trained models and integrates compression during co-search.
result Reduces search time from 200 GPU hours to less than 3 GPU hours.

BoGA combines evolutionary search with Bayesian optimization for efficient protein design.

problem Designing novel proteins with specific characteristics is challenging due to sequence space complexity.
method BoGA integrates a genetic algorithm with Bayesian optimization to efficiently explore sequence space.
result BoGA accelerates discovery of high-confidence binders for diverse protein design objectives.

Bayesian optimisation tackles high-dimensional categorical and mixed search spaces.

problem Bayesian optimisation on high-dimensional categorical and mixed search spaces is challenging.
method Combining local optimisation with a tailored kernel design.
result Empirically outperforms current baselines in performance and computational costs.

Despite the recent successes in robotic locomotion control, the design of robot relies heavily on human engineering. Automatic robot design has been a long studied subject, but the recent progress has been slowed due to the large combinatorial search space and the difficulty in evaluating the found candidates. To addre…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

In deep learning, performance is strongly affected by the choice of architecture and hyperparameters. While there has been extensive work on automatic hyperparameter optimization for simple spaces, complex spaces such as the space of deep architectures remain largely unexplored. As a result, the choice of architecture …

2017-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

RandomNet uses random search to design neural architectures without much human intervention.

problem Designing neural architectures without excessive human intervention.
method Random search strategy for multimodal neural architecture design.
result RandomNet performs close to state-of-the-art on AV-MNIST with minimal human supervision.

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.

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…

2019-06-13abs ↗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 ↗

The scientific method relies on the iterated processes of inference and inquiry. The inference phase consists of selecting the most probable models based on the available data; whereas the inquiry phase consists of using what is known about the models to select the most relevant experiment. Optimizing inquiry involves …

2010-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

Within machine learning, the subfield of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has recently garnered research attention due to its ability to improve upon human-designed models. However, the computational requirements for finding an exact solution to this problem are often intractable, and the design of the search space sti…

2019-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates supervised learning pipeline design with matrix and tensor factorization.

problem Designing effective supervised learning pipelines with many choices.
method Uses matrix and tensor factorization to model pipeline search space and develops greedy experiment design protocols.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach on real-world classification problems.

Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for efficient architecture search called EENA (Efficient Evolution of Neural Archit…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Space-filling designs such as scrambled-Hammersley, Latin Hypercube Sampling and Jittered Sampling have been proposed for fully parallel hyperparameter search, and were shown to be more effective than random or grid search. In this paper, we show that these designs only improve over random search by a constant factor. …

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

LES optimizes designs by sampling descent sequences, achieving strong sample efficiency.

problem Optimizing large, complex design spaces is infeasible and unnecessary.
method LES uses Bayesian optimization to target solutions reachable by iterative optimizers.
result LES achieves strong sample efficiency compared to existing methods.

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.

Recently, randomly mapping vectorial data to strings of discrete symbols (i.e., sketches) for fast and space-efficient similarity searches has become popular. Such random mapping is called similarity-preserving hashing and approximates a similarity metric by using the Hamming distance. Although many efficient similarit…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for combinatorial and rounding algorithms in experimental design.

problem Designing and analyzing combinatorial and rounding algorithms for experimental design problems.
method Local search framework for combinatorial algorithms and regret minimization framework for rounding algorithms.
result Unified approach to match and improve all known results in D/A/E-design and obtain new results in unknown settings.

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 ↗

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 ↗

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.