Summary of Robust and Efficient Transfer Learning Via Supernet Transfer in Warm-started Neural Architecture Search, by Prabhant Singh et al.
Robust and Efficient Transfer Learning via Supernet Transfer in Warm-started Neural Architecture Search
by Prabhant Singh, Joaquin Vanschoren
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed novel transfer learning approach enables effective transferring of pre-trained supernets based on Optimal Transport or multi-dataset pretaining, which can be applied to Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods based on Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS). This method significantly speeds up supernet training and yields optimal models that outperform those found when running DARTS methods from scratch. Through extensive experiments across dozens of image classification tasks, the proposed approach demonstrates robustness and applicability, opening up new applications for continual learning and related fields. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a way to make Neural Architecture Search (NAS) faster and more accessible. Currently, designing neural networks requires expertise and is time-consuming. NAS helps by using algorithms to find good network architectures. However, these algorithms are often slow and use a lot of computer resources. The authors suggest a new approach that uses pre-trained models to speed up the process. They tested this approach on many image classification tasks and found it works well, being 3-5 times faster than the original method and producing better results. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Continual learning » Image classification » Transfer learning
