An Analysis of Super-Net Heuristics in Weight-Sharing NAS
Weight sharing promises to make neural architecture search (NAS) tractable even on commodity hardware. Existing methods in this space rely on a diverse set of heuristics to design and train the shared-weight backbone network, a.k.a. the super-net. Since heuristics substantially vary across different...
| Veröffentlicht in: | IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 44(2022), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 8110-8124 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2022
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Plant Extracts nas 64706-31-6 |
| Zusammenfassung: | Weight sharing promises to make neural architecture search (NAS) tractable even on commodity hardware. Existing methods in this space rely on a diverse set of heuristics to design and train the shared-weight backbone network, a.k.a. the super-net. Since heuristics substantially vary across different methods and have not been carefully studied, it is unclear to which extent they impact super-net training and hence the weight-sharing NAS algorithms. In this paper, we disentangle super-net training from the search algorithm, isolate 14 frequently-used training heuristics, and evaluate them over three benchmark search spaces. Our analysis uncovers that several commonly-used heuristics negatively impact the correlation between super-net and stand-alone performance, whereas simple, but often overlooked factors, such as proper hyper-parameter settings, are key to achieve strong performance. Equipped with this knowledge, we show that simple random search achieves competitive performance to complex state-of-the-art NAS algorithms when the super-net is properly trained |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 06.10.2022 Date Revised 19.11.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1939-3539 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3108480 |