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Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is a prevailing NAS solution to identify architectures. Based on the continuous relaxation of the architecture space, DARTS learns a differentiable architecture weight and largely reduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Xiangning Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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) has received massive attention in recent years, mainly because it significantly reduces the computational cost through weight sharing and continuous relaxation. However, more recent works find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Miao Zhang , Jilin Hu , Steven Su , Shirui Pan , Xiaojun Chang , Bin Yang , Gholamreza Haffari

Improving the efficiency of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a challenging but significant task that has received much attention. Previous works mainly adopted the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) and improved its search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chongjun Tu , Peng Ye , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Baopu Li , Wanli Ouyang

Differentiable ARchiTecture Search (DARTS) uses a continuous relaxation of network representation and dramatically accelerates Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by almost thousands of times in GPU-day. However, the searching process of DARTS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Huiqun Wang , Ruijie Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Despite its high search efficiency, differential architecture search (DARTS) often selects network architectures with dominated skip connections which lead to performance degradation. However, theoretical understandings on this issue remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Pan Zhou , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher , Steven C. H. Hoi

Despite the fast development of differentiable architecture search (DARTS), it suffers from long-standing performance instability, which extremely limits its application. Existing robustifying methods draw clues from the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaoxing Wang , Bo Zhang , Shun Lu , Xiaolin Wei , Junchi Yan

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is a recent neural architecture search (NAS) method based on a differentiable relaxation. Due to its success, numerous variants analyzing and improving parts of the DARTS framework have recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Kaitlin Maile , Erwan Lecarpentier , Hervé Luga , Dennis G. Wilson

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is a simple yet efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method. During the search stage, DARTS trains a supernet by jointly optimizing architecture parameters and network parameters. During the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

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

Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS), as a gradient-guided search method, greatly reduces the cost of computation and speeds up the search. In DARTS, the architecture parameters are introduced to the candidate operations, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yu Xue , Jiafeng Qin

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been a source of dramatic improvements in neural network design, with recent results meeting or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned architectures. However, our understanding of how to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Andrew Hundt , Varun Jain , Gregory D. Hager

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is successfully applied in many vision tasks. However, directly using DARTS for Transformers is memory-intensive, which renders the search process infeasible. To this end, we propose a multi-split…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yuekai Zhao , Li Dong , Yelong Shen , Zhihua Zhang , Furu Wei , Weizhu Chen

With the rapid development of neural architecture search (NAS), researchers found powerful network architectures for a wide range of vision tasks. However, it remains unclear if the searched architecture can transfer across different types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Xin Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jun Wu , Qi Tian

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

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 Neural Architecture Search (DARTS) is becoming more and more popular among Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods because of its high search efficiency and low compute cost. However, the stability of DARTS is very inferior,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method but suffers from robustness, generalization, and discrepancy issues. Many efforts have been made towards the performance collapse issue…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yanlin Zhou , Mostafa El-Khamy , Kee-Bong Song

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the importance of candidate operations and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Xiaoxing Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Junchi Yan , Jianlin Su , Xiaokang Yang