Search Space Adaptation for Differentiable Neural Architecture Search in Image Classification

As deep neural networks achieve unprecedented performance in various tasks, neural architecture search (NAS), a research field for designing neural network architectures with automated processes, is actively underway. More recently, differentiable NAS has a great impact by reducing the search cost to the level of training a single network. Besides, the search space that defines candidate architectures to be searched directly affects the performance of the final architecture. In this paper, we propose an adaptation scheme of the search space by introducing a search scope. The effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated with ProxylessNAS for the image classification task. Furthermore, we visualize the trajectory of architecture parameter updates and provide insights to improve the architecture search.

Two-Stage Architectural Fine-Tuning with Neural Architecture Search using Early-Stopping in Image Classification

Deep neural networks (NN) perform well in various tasks (e.g., computer vision) because of the convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, the difficulty of gathering quality data in the industry field hinders the practical use of NN. To cope with this issue, the concept of transfer learning (TL) has emerged, which leverages the fine-tuning of NNs trained on large-scale datasets in data-scarce situations. Therefore, this paper suggests a two-stage architectural fine-tuning method for image classification, inspired by the concept of neural architecture search (NAS). One of the main ideas of our proposed method is a mutation with base architectures, which reduces the search cost by using given architectural information. Moreover, an early-stopping is also considered which directly reduces NAS costs. Experimental results verify that our proposed method reduces computational and searching costs by up to 28.2% and 22.3%, compared to existing methods.

Trends in Neural Architecture Search: Towards the Acceleration of Search

In modern deep learning research, finding optimal (or near optimal) neural network models is one of major research directions and it is widely studied in many applications. In this paper, the main research trends of neural architecture search (NAS) are classified as neuro-evolutionary algorithms, reinforcement learning based algorithms, and one-shot architecture search approaches. Furthermore, each research trend is introduced and finally all the major three trends are compared. Lastly, the future research directions of NAS research trends are discussed.