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Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has emerged as a promising technique for effective neural architecture search, and it mainly contains two steps to find the high-performance architecture: First, the DARTS supernet that consists of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Le Yang , Ziwei Zheng , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Fan Li

\textit{Differentiable ARchiTecture Search} (DARTS) has recently become the mainstream of neural architecture search (NAS) due to its efficiency and simplicity. With a gradient-based bi-level optimization, DARTS alternately optimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Miao Zhang , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Reza Haffari

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has now become one of the mainstream paradigms of neural architecture search. However, it largely suffers from the well-known performance collapse issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Hanxiao Liu , Karen Simonyan , Yiming Yang

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) yields highly efficient gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) by relaxing the discrete operation selection to optimize continuous architecture parameters that maps NAS from the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jiuling Zhang , Zhiming Ding

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has significantly promoted the development of NAS techniques because of its high search efficiency and effectiveness but suffers from performance collapse. In this paper, we make efforts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xuanyang Zhang , Yonggang Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Yongtao Wang , Jian Sun

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search is one of the most popular Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods for its search efficiency and simplicity, accomplished by jointly optimizing the model weight and architecture parameters in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Ruochen Wang , Minhao Cheng , Xiangning Chen , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Quanming Yao , Ju Xu , Wei-Wei Tu , Zhanxing Zhu

Neural architecture search (NAS) has gained significant traction in automating the design of neural networks. To reduce search time, differentiable architecture search (DAS) reframes the traditional paradigm of discrete candidate sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoyun Liu , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuqing Zhao , Penghui Ruan

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is widely considered to be easy to overfit the validation set which leads to performance degradation. We first employ a series of exploratory experiments to verify that neither high-strength…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jiuling Zhang , Zhiming Ding

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a mainstream direction in automatic machine learning. Since the discovery that original DARTS will inevitably converge to poor architectures, recent works alleviate this by either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Bicheng Guo , Shuxuan Guo , Miaojing Shi , Peng Chen , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Kaicheng Yu

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is now a widely disseminated weight-sharing neural architecture search method. However, it suffers from well-known performance collapse due to an inevitable aggregation of skip connections. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiangxiang Chu , Tianbao Zhou , Bo Zhang , Jixiang Li

In this paper, we investigate the fundamental question: To what extent are gradient-based neural architecture search (NAS) techniques applicable to RL? Using the original DARTS as a convenient baseline, we discover that the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yingjie Miao , Xingyou Song , John D. Co-Reyes , Daiyi Peng , Summer Yue , Eugene Brevdo , Aleksandra Faust

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained attraction due to superior classification performance. Differential Architecture Search (DARTS) is a computationally light method. To limit computational resources DARTS makes numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Muhammad Suhaib Tanveer , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Chong-Min Kyung

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search, i.e., DARTS, has drawn great attention in neural architecture search. It tries to find the optimal architecture in a shallow search network and then measures its performance in a deep evaluation network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hongyuan Yu , Houwen Peng , Yan Huang , Jianlong Fu , Hao Du , Liang Wang , Haibin Ling

In this paper, we point out that differential architecture search (DARTS) makes gradient of architecture parameters biased for network weights and architecture parameters are updated in different datasets alternatively in the bi-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin

In neural architecture search (NAS), differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has recently attracted much attention due to its high efficiency. It defines an over-parameterized network with mixed edges, each of which represents all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Kengo Machida , Kuniaki Uto , Koichi Shinoda , Taiji Suzuki

Differentiable Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provides efficient, gradient-based methods for automatically designing neural networks, yet its adoption remains limited in practice. We present MIDAS, a novel approach that modernizes DARTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Konstanty Subbotko

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained enormous popularity in the field of artificial intelligence due to their low power consumption. However, the majority of SNN methods directly inherit the structure of Artificial Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilei Man , Linhai Xie , Shushan Qiao , Yumei Zhou , Delong Shang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Arash Vahdat , Arun Mallya , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz