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Understanding and Robustifying Differentiable Architecture Search

ICLR 2020 · Architectures and efficiency › Neural architecture search · approach: Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) · 257 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Stop the search when the smoothed dominant architecture-Hessian eigenvalue rises, returning an earlier architectureDARTS · CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and SVHN; search spaces S1-S4test error: CIFAR-10 S1: 4.66 ± 0.71 -> 3.05 ± 0.07; CIFAR-10 S2: 4.42 ± 0.40 -> 3.41 ± 0.14; CIFAR-10 S3: 4.12 ± 0.85 -> 3.71 ± 1.1Helped
Use stronger L2 regularization during architecture search (ablation)DARTS · Image classification search spaces S1-S4test errorHelped
Apply Cutout and ScheduledDropPath during architecture search (ablation)DARTS · Image classification search spaces S1-S4test errorHelped
Increase data augmentation strength during architecture search (ablation)DARTS · FlyingThings3D and Sintel disparity estimationEPE: FT test: 3.83 -> 2.33; Sintel test: 5.69 -> 3.76Mixed
Increase L2 regularization during architecture search (ablation)DARTS · FlyingThings3D and Sintel disparity estimationEPE: FT test: 3.25, 2.30, 2.72, 2.34; Sintel test: 6.13, 4.12, 4.83, 3.85Mixed
Use L2 regularization stronger than the default in the search (ablation)DARTS · Penn Treebanktest perplexityHelped
Adaptively increase regularization when the eigenvalue-based stopping criterion is triggeredDARTS · Image classification search spaces S1-S4test errorHelped
Run architecture search at multiple regularization strengths and select by validation performanceDARTS · CIFAR-100, SVHN, and Penn Treebanktest error or perplexity: CIFAR-100: 20.58 ± 0.44 -> 18.01 ± 0.26; SVHN: 2.46 ± 0.09 -> 2.17 ± 0.09; Penn Treebank: 58.64 -> 57.59Helped
Run architecture search at multiple regularization strengths and select by validation performanceDARTS · CIFAR-10test error: 2.91 ± 0.25 -> 2.95 ± 0.21No clear effect
Increase the ScheduledDropPath probability during search (ablation)DARTS · CIFAR-10 S1-S4test accuracy: S1 seed 1: 96.16 -> 96.89; S2 seed 1: 95.15 -> 96.52; S3 seed 1: 94.70 -> 96.91; S4 seed 1: 92.80 -> 96.42Mixed
Increase L2 regularization too far during architecture search (ablation)DARTS · CIFAR-10 S5test errorHurt

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