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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

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) 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 attracted increasingly more attention in recent years because of its capability to design deep neural networks automatically. Among them, differential NAS approaches such as DARTS, have gained popularity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Peng Ye , Baopu Li , Yikang Li , Tao Chen , Jiayuan Fan , Wanli Ouyang

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

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

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 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) 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

This paper aims at enlarging the problem of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) from Single-Path and Multi-Path Search to automated Mixed-Path Search. In particular, we model the NAS problem as a sparse supernet using a new continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yan Wu , Aoming Liu , Zhiwu Huang , Siwei Zhang , Luc Van Gool

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been widely adopted to design neural networks for various computer vision tasks. One of its most promising subdomains is differentiable NAS (DNAS), where the optimal architecture is found in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Konstanty Subbotko , Wojciech Jablonski , Piotr Bilinski

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to produce the optimal sparse solution from a high-dimensional space spanned by all candidate connections. Current gradient-based NAS methods commonly ignore the constraint of sparsity in the search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yibo Yang , Hongyang Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Zhouchen Lin

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

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

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) has attracted much attention due to its simplicity and significant improvement in efficiency. However, the excessive accumulation of the skip connection, when training epochs become large, makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Chao Li , Jia Ning , Han Hu , Kun He

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

We present a Model Uncertainty-aware Differentiable ARchiTecture Search ($\mu$DARTS) that optimizes neural networks to simultaneously achieve high accuracy and low uncertainty. We introduce concrete dropout within DARTS cells and include a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay