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\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

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

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) 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

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) has attracted extensive attention due to its efficiency in searching for cell structures. DARTS mainly focuses on the operation search and derives the cell topology from the operation weights.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yu-Chao Gu , Li-Juan Wang , Yun Liu , Yi Yang , Yu-Huan Wu , Shao-Ping Lu , Ming-Ming Cheng

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

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 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

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

DARTS is a popular algorithm for neural architecture search (NAS). Despite its great advantage in search efficiency, DARTS often suffers weak stability, which reflects in the large variation among individual trials as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Kaifeng Bi , Changping Hu , Lingxi Xie , Xin Chen , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

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

Recently, the efficiency of automatic neural architecture design has been significantly improved by gradient-based search methods such as DARTS. However, recent literature has brought doubt to the generalization ability of DARTS, arguing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Guilin Li , Xing Zhang , Zitong Wang , Matthias Tan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) marks a milestone in Neural Architecture Search (NAS), boasting simplicity and small search costs. However, DARTS still suffers from frequent performance collapse, which happens when some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Pengfei Hou , Ying Jin , Yukang Chen

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

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Early neural network architectures were designed by so-called "grad student descent". Since then, the field of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has developed with the goal of algorithmically designing architectures tailored for a dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sam Green , Craig M. Vineyard , Ryan Helinski , Çetin Kaya Koç

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

The success of neural architecture search (NAS) has historically been limited by excessive compute requirements. While modern weight-sharing NAS methods such as DARTS are able to finish the search in single-digit GPU days, extracting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Miroslav Fil , Binxin Ru , Clare Lyle , Yarin Gal

AI technology has made remarkable achievements in computational pathology (CPath), especially with the help of deep neural networks. However, the network performance is highly related to architecture design, which commonly requires human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sheyang Tang , Mahdi S. Hosseini , Lina Chen , Sonal Varma , Corwyn Rowsell , Savvas Damaskinos , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Zhou Wang