Progressive Neural Architecture Search
Chenxi Liu, Barret Zoph, Maxim Neumann, Jonathon Shlens, Wei Hua, Li-Jia Li, Li Fei-Fei, Alan Yuille
Abstract
We propose a new method for learning the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that is more efficient than recent state-of-the-art methods based on reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms. Our approach uses a sequential model-based optimization (SMBO) strategy, in which we search for structures in order of increasing complexity, while simultaneously learning a surrogate model to guide the search through structure space. Direct comparison under the same search space shows that our method is up to 5 times more efficient than the RL method of Zoph et al. (2018) in terms of number of models evaluated, and 8 times faster in terms of total compute. The structures we discover in this way achieve state of the art classification accuracies on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{eccv2018_progressiveneura,
title = {Progressive Neural Architecture Search},
author = {Chenxi Liu and Barret Zoph and Maxim Neumann and Jonathon Shlens and Wei Hua and Li-Jia Li and Li Fei-Fei and Alan Yuille and Jonathan Huang and Kevin Murphy},
booktitle = {ECCV 2018},
year = {2018}
}