Enhanced Gradient for Differentiable Architecture Search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12529v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:27:24 GMT
• Title: Enhanced Gradient for Differentiable Architecture Search
• Authors: Haichao Zhang, Kuangrong Hao, Lei Gao, Xuesong Tang, and Bing Wei
• Abstract summary: We propose a neural network architecture search algorithm aiming to simultaneously improve network performance and reduce network complexity. The proposed framework automatically builds the network architecture at two stages: block-level search and network-level search. Experiment results demonstrate that our method outperforms all evaluated hand-crafted networks in image classification.
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• Abstract: 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 optimized only for classification performance and do not adapt to devices with limited computational resources. To address this challenge, we propose a neural network architecture search algorithm aiming to simultaneously improve network performance (e.g., classification accuracy) and reduce network complexity. The proposed framework automatically builds the network architecture at two stages: block-level search and network-level search. At the stage of block-level search, a relaxation method based on the gradient is proposed, using an enhanced gradient to design high-performance and low-complexity blocks. At the stage of network-level search, we apply an evolutionary multi-objective algorithm to complete the automatic design from blocks to the target network. The experiment results demonstrate that our method outperforms all evaluated hand-crafted networks in image classification, with an error rate of on CIFAR10 and an error rate of on CIFAR100, both at network parameter size less than one megabit. Moreover, compared with other neural architecture search methods, our method offers a tremendous reduction in designed network architecture parameters.

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