How much progress have we made in neural network training? A New Evaluation Protocol for Benchmarking Optimizers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09889v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:46:39 GMT
• Title: How much progress have we made in neural network training? A New Evaluation Protocol for Benchmarking Optimizers
• Authors: Yuanhao Xiong, Xuanqing Liu, Li-Cheng Lan, Yang You, Si Si, Cho-Jui Hsieh
• Abstract summary: We propose a new benchmarking protocol to evaluate both end-to-end efficiency and data-addition training efficiency. A human study is conducted to show that our evaluation protocol matches human tuning behavior better than the random search. We then apply the proposed benchmarking framework to 7s and various tasks, including computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and graph mining.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Many optimizers have been proposed for training deep neural networks, and they often have multiple hyperparameters, which make it tricky to benchmark their performance. In this work, we propose a new benchmarking protocol to evaluate both end-to-end efficiency (training a model from scratch without knowing the best hyperparameter) and data-addition training efficiency (the previously selected hyperparameters are used for periodically re-training the model with newly collected data). For end-to-end efficiency, unlike previous work that assumes random hyperparameter tuning, which over-emphasizes the tuning time, we propose to evaluate with a bandit hyperparameter tuning strategy. A human study is conducted to show that our evaluation protocol matches human tuning behavior better than the random search. For data-addition training, we propose a new protocol for assessing the hyperparameter sensitivity to data shift. We then apply the proposed benchmarking framework to 7 optimizers and various tasks, including computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and graph mining. Our results show that there is no clear winner across all the tasks.

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