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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

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

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 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

In this paper, we attempt to address the challenge of applying Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithms, specifically the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS), to long-tailed datasets where class distribution is highly imbalanced.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Chenxia Tang

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

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) 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

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown encouraging results in automating the architecture design. Recently, DARTS relaxes the search process with a differentiable formulation that leverages weight-sharing and SGD where all candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Weijun Hong , Guilin Li , Weinan Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Yunhe Wang , Zhenguo Li , Yong Yu

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed for the automatic generation of task-oriented network architecture in image classification. However, the architectures obtained by existing NAS approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

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

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) has gained much success in discovering flexible and diverse cell types. To reduce the evaluation gap, the supernet is expected to have identical layers with the target network. However, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tao Huang , Shan You , Yibo Yang , Zhuozhuo Tu , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang

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

Neural architecture search (NAS) methods aim to automatically find the optimal deep neural network (DNN) architecture as measured by a given objective function, typically some combination of task accuracy and inference efficiency. For many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Ravi Krishna , Aravind Kalaiah , Bichen Wu , Maxim Naumov , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Misha Smelyanskiy , Kurt Keutzer

In differentiable neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms like DARTS, the training set used to update model weight and the validation set used to update model architectures are sampled from the same data distribution. Thus, the uncommon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Ruisi Zhang , Youwei Liang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Pengtao Xie

Designing effective neural networks is a cornerstone of deep learning, and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful tool for automating this process. Among the existing NAS approaches, Differentiable Architecture Search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Pengjin Wu , Ferrante Neri , Zhenhua Feng

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

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