Binarized Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Object Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04247v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 15:51:23 GMT
• Title: Binarized Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Object Recognition
• Authors: Hanlin Chen, Li'an Zhuo, Baochang Zhang, Xiawu Zheng, Jianzhuang Liu, Rongrong Ji, David Doermann, Guodong Guo
• Abstract summary: Binarized neural architecture search (BNAS) produces extremely compressed models to reduce huge computational cost on embedded devices for edge computing. An accuracy of $96.53%$ vs. $97.22%$ is achieved on the CIFAR-10 dataset, but with a significantly compressed model, and a $40%$ faster search than the state-of-the-art PC-DARTS.
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• Abstract: Traditional neural architecture search (NAS) has a significant impact in computer vision by automatically designing network architectures for various tasks. In this paper, binarized neural architecture search (BNAS), with a search space of binarized convolutions, is introduced to produce extremely compressed models to reduce huge computational cost on embedded devices for edge computing. The BNAS calculation is more challenging than NAS due to the learning inefficiency caused by optimization requirements and the huge architecture space, and the performance loss when handling the wild data in various computing applications. To address these issues, we introduce operation space reduction and channel sampling into BNAS to significantly reduce the cost of searching. This is accomplished through a performance-based strategy that is robust to wild data, which is further used to abandon less potential operations. Furthermore, we introduce the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) to solve 1-bit BNAS. Two optimization methods for binarized neural networks are used to validate the effectiveness of our BNAS. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed BNAS achieves a comparable performance to NAS on both CIFAR and ImageNet databases. An accuracy of $96.53\%$ vs. $97.22\%$ is achieved on the CIFAR-10 dataset, but with a significantly compressed model, and a $40\%$ faster search than the state-of-the-art PC-DARTS. On the wild face recognition task, our binarized models achieve a performance similar to their corresponding full-precision models.

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