EENA: Efficient Evolution of Neural Architecture

By Hui Zhu, Zhulin An, Chuanguang Yang, Kaiqiang Xu, Yongjun Xu. 2019

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Latest algorithms for automatic neural architecture search perform remarkable but are basically directionless in search space and computational expensive in the training of every intermediate architecture. In this paper, we propose a method for efficient architecture search called EENA (Efficient Evolution of Neural Architecture). Due to the elaborately designed mutation and crossover operations, the evolution process can be guided by the information have already been learned. Therefore, less computational effort will be required while the searching and training time can be reduced significantly. On CIFAR-10 classification, EENA using minimal computational resources (0.65 GPU-days) can design highly effective neural architecture which achieves 2.56% test error with 8.47M parameters. Furthermore, the best architecture discovered is also transferable for CIFAR-100.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Neural Architecture Search & AutoML

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In Artificial Intelligence

  1. Bing Xue
  2. Mengjie Zhang
  3. Yanan Sun
  4. Gary G. Yen
  5. Yuqiao Liu
  6. Yaochu Jin
  7. Handing Wang
  8. Ran Cheng

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

  1. Bing Xue
  2. Mengjie Zhang
  3. Yanan Sun
  4. Gary G. Yen
  5. Yuqiao Liu
  6. Kate Saenko
  7. Gabriella Csurka
  8. Luc Van Gool

In Neural Architecture Search & AutoML

  1. Bing Xue
  2. Mengjie Zhang
  3. Gary G. Yen
  4. Yuqiao Liu
  5. Yanan Sun

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