Improving Ranking Correlation of Supernet with Candidates Enhancement and Progressive Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05866v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:27:10 GMT
• Title: Improving Ranking Correlation of Supernet with Candidates Enhancement and Progressive Training
• Authors: Ziwei Yang, Ruyi Zhang, Zhi Yang, Xubo Yang, Lei Wang and Zheyang Li
• Abstract summary: One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) applies weight-sharing supernet to reduce the unaffordable computation overhead of automated architecture designing. We propose a candidates enhancement method and progressive training pipeline to improve the ranking correlation of supernet. Our method ranks the 1st place in the Supernet Track of CVPR 2021 1st Lightweight NAS Challenge.
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• Abstract: One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) applies weight-sharing supernet to reduce the unaffordable computation overhead of automated architecture designing. However, the weight-sharing technique worsens the ranking consistency of performance due to the interferences between different candidate networks. To address this issue, we propose a candidates enhancement method and progressive training pipeline to improve the ranking correlation of supernet. Specifically, we carefully redesign the sub-networks in the supernet and map the original supernet to a new one of high capacity. In addition, we gradually add narrow branches of supernet to reduce the degree of weight sharing which effectively alleviates the mutual interference between sub-networks. Finally, our method ranks the 1st place in the Supernet Track of CVPR2021 1st Lightweight NAS Challenge.

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