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PC-DARTS: Partial Channel Connections for Memory-Efficient Architecture Search
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use partial channel connections and edge normalization | DARTS architecture search · CIFAR10 | test error (%): 3.00±0.14% -> 2.57±0.07% | Helped |
| Add edge normalization (ablation) | DARTS with full channel connections · CIFAR10 | test error (%): 3.00±0.14% -> 2.82±0.05% | Helped |
| Add partial channel connections (ablation) | DARTS without edge normalization · CIFAR10 | test error (%): 3.00±0.14% -> 2.67±0.11% | Helped |
| Add edge normalization (ablation) | PC-DARTS with partial channel connections · CIFAR10 | test error (%): 2.67±0.11% -> 2.57±0.07% | Helped |
| Add partial channel connections (ablation) | DARTS with edge normalization · CIFAR10 | test error (%): 2.82±0.05% -> 2.57±0.07% | Helped |
| Use partial channel connections and edge normalization | DARTS architecture search · ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) | test error (%): 26.8±0.1% -> 25.8±0.1% | Helped |
| Add edge normalization (ablation) | DARTS with full channel connections · ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) | test error (%): 26.8±0.1% -> 26.3±0.1% | Helped |
| Add partial channel connections (ablation) | DARTS without edge normalization · ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) | test error (%): 26.8±0.1% -> 26.2±0.1% | Helped |
| Add edge normalization (ablation) | PC-DARTS with partial channel connections · ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) | test error (%): 26.2±0.1% -> 25.8±0.1% | Helped |
| Add partial channel connections (ablation) | DARTS with edge normalization · ImageNet (ILSVRC2012) | test error (%): 26.3±0.1% -> 25.8±0.1% | Helped |
| Use a 1/4 channel sampling rate instead of 1/8 (ablation) | PC-DARTS · CIFAR10 | test error (%) | Helped |
| Use partial-channel sampling and edge normalization to stabilize search | DARTS architecture search · CIFAR10, five independent search runs | standard deviation of test error (%): ±0.15% -> ±0.07% | Helped |
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