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MTL-NAS: Task-Agnostic Neural Architecture Search Towards General-Purpose Multi-Task Learning

CVPR 2020 · Architectures and efficiency › Neural architecture search · approach: Bi-level differentiable NAS · 78 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Search hierarchical, layerwise inter-task feature-fusion connections between fixed task-specific backbonesMTL-NAS · NYU v2, semantic segmentation and surface normal estimationmIoU: 36.2 -> 37.6Helped
Search hierarchical, layerwise inter-task feature-fusion connections between fixed task-specific backbonesMTL-NAS · Taskonomy tiny split, object and scene classificationobject Top-1 recognition rate: 34.1 -> 34.8Helped
Add minimum entropy regularization to DARTS-style search (ablation)DARTS-style MTL-NAS search · NYU v2mIoU: 19.1 -> 37.7Helped
Add minimum entropy regularization to DARTS-style search (ablation)DARTS-style MTL-NAS search · NYU v2surface normal mean error: 15.9 -> 12.7Helped
Use stochastic relaxation without minimum entropy regularization (ablation)SNAS-style MTL-NAS search · NYU v2evaluation performance stabilityHurt
Initialize task-identical fusion weight w_TI to 1.0 rather than 0 (ablation)MTL-NAS fusion layers · NYU v2mIoU: 30.1 -> 37.6Helped
Initialize task-identical fusion weight w_TI to 1.0 rather than 0 (ablation)MTL-NAS fusion layers · NYU v2surface normal mean error: 16.9 -> 12.6Helped
Use the searched architecture instead of retaining all search-space edges in the supernet (ablation)MTL-NAS · NYU v2mIoU: 36.1 -> 37.6Helped
Vary the learning rate of new inter-task layers from 1x to 10x (ablation)MTL-NAS · NYU v2mIoU: 37.6 -> 37.5No clear effect
Use stochastic instead of deterministic discretization under minimum entropy regularization (ablation)MTL-NAS with deterministic relaxation · NYU v2mIoU: 37.7 -> 37.9No clear effect

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