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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

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

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 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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an exciting new field which promises to be as much as a game-changer as Convolutional Neural Networks were in 2012. Despite many great works leading to substantial improvements on a variety of tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Antoine Yang , Pedro M. Esperança , Fabio M. Carlucci

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an effective continuous relaxation-based network architecture search (NAS) method with low search cost. It has attracted significant attentions in Auto-ML research and becomes one of the most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jun-Wei Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang , Ping-Yang Chen , Santanu Santra , Cheng-Han Chou , Chih-Sheng Huang

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

Recently, there has been a growing interest in automating the process of neural architecture design, and the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) method makes the process available within a few GPU days. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Hanwen Liang , Shifeng Zhang , Jiacheng Sun , Xingqiu He , Weiran Huang , Kechen Zhuang , Zhenguo Li

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) 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

Existing neural architecture search (NAS) methods often return an architecture with good search performance but generalizes poorly to the test setting. To achieve better generalization, we propose a novel neighborhood-aware NAS formulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xiaofang Wang , Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , Kris M. Kitani

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

Recent neural architecture search (NAS) works proposed training-free metrics to rank networks which largely reduced the search cost in NAS. In this paper, we revisit these training-free metrics and find that: (1) the number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Taojiannan Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Chen Chen

Despite the increasing interest in neural architecture search (NAS), the significant computational cost of NAS is a hindrance to researchers. Hence, we propose to reduce the cost of NAS using proxy data, i.e., a representative subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Byunggook Na , Jisoo Mok , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

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

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

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

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been explosively studied to automate the discovery of top-performer neural networks. Current works require heavy training of supernet or intensive architecture evaluations, thus suffering from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Wuyang Chen , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

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

The search cost of neural architecture search (NAS) has been largely reduced by weight-sharing methods. These methods optimize a super-network with all possible edges and operations, and determine the optimal sub-network by discretization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Yunjie Tian , Chang Liu , Lingxi Xie , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye