GPT-NAS: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search with the Generative Pre-Trained Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05351v3
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:03:06 GMT
• Title: GPT-NAS: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search with the Generative Pre-Trained Model
• Authors: Caiyang Yu, Xianggen Liu, Yifan Wang, Yun Liu, Wentao Feng, Xiong Deng, Chenwei Tang, Jiancheng Lv,
• Abstract summary: This work presents a novel architecture search algorithm, called GPT-NAS, that optimize neural architectures by Generative Pre-Trained (GPT) model. In GPT-NAS, we assume that a generative model pre-trained on a large-scale corpus could learn the fundamental law of building neural architectures. Our GPT-NAS method significantly outperforms seven manually designed neural architectures and thirteen architectures provided by competing NAS methods.
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• Abstract: Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them are obtained from the NAS method. The main reason is the huge search space of neural architectures, making NAS algorithms inefficient. This work presents a novel architecture search algorithm, called GPT-NAS, that optimizes neural architectures by Generative Pre-Trained (GPT) model with an evolutionary algorithm (EA) as the search strategy. In GPT-NAS, we assume that a generative model pre-trained on a large-scale corpus could learn the fundamental law of building neural architectures. Therefore, GPT-NAS leverages the GPT model to propose reasonable architecture components given the basic one and then utilizes EAs to search for the optimal solution. Such an approach can largely reduce the search space by introducing prior knowledge in the search process. Extensive experimental results show that our GPT-NAS method significantly outperforms seven manually designed neural architectures and thirteen architectures provided by competing NAS methods. In addition, our experiments also indicate that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of finely tuned neural architectures by up to about 12% compared to those without GPT, further demonstrating its effectiveness in searching neural architectures.

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