Cai, H;
Chen, T;
Zhang, W;
Yu, Y;
Wang, J;
(2018)
Efficient architecture search by network transformation.
In:
(Proceedings) 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018.
(pp. pp. 2787-2794).
AAAI: New Orleans, LA, USA.
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Abstract
Techniques for automatically designing deep neural network architectures such as reinforcement learning based approaches have recently shown promising results. However, their success is based on vast computational resources (e.g. hundreds of GPUs), making them difficult to be widely used. A noticeable limitation is that they still design and train each network from scratch during the exploration of the architecture space, which is highly inefficient. In this paper, we propose a new framework toward efficient architecture search by exploring the architecture space based on the current network and reusing its weights. We employ a reinforcement learning agent as the meta-controller, whose action is to grow the network depth or layer width with function-preserving transformations. As such, the previously validated networks can be reused for further exploration, thus saves a large amount of computational cost. We apply our method to explore the architecture space of the plain convolutional neural networks (no skip-connections, branching etc.) on image benchmark datasets (CIFAR-10, SVHN) with restricted computational resources (5 GPUs). Our method can design highly competitive networks that outperform existing networks using the same design scheme. On CIFAR-10, our model without skip-connections achieves 4.23% test error rate, exceeding a vast majority of modern architectures and approaching DenseNet. Furthermore, by applying our method to explore the DenseNet architecture space, we are able to achieve more accurate networks with fewer parameters.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Efficient architecture search by network transformation |
| Event: | 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781577358008 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/pap... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Automatic Architecture Search; Deep Neural Networks; Reinforcement Learning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10070680 |
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