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Optimizing Neural Architecture Search using Limited GPU Time in a Dynamic Search Space: A Gene Expression Programming Approach
Efficient identification of people and objects, segmentation of regions of
interest and extraction of relevant data in images, texts, audios and videos
are evolving considerably in these past years, which deep learning methods,
combined with recent improvements in computational resources, contributed
greatly for this achievement. Although its outstanding potential, development
of efficient architectures and modules requires expert knowledge and amount of
resource time available. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary-based neural
architecture search approach for efficient discovery of convolutional models in
a dynamic search space, within only 24 GPU hours. With its efficient search
environment and phenotype representation, Gene Expression Programming is
adapted for network's cell generation. Despite having limited GPU resource time
and broad search space, our proposal achieved similar state-of-the-art to
manually-designed convolutional networks and also NAS-generated ones, even
beating similar constrained evolutionary-based NAS works. The best cells in
different runs achieved stable results, with a mean error of 2.82% in CIFAR-10
dataset (which the best model achieved an error of 2.67%) and 18.83% for
CIFAR-100 (best model with 18.16%). For ImageNet in the mobile setting, our
best model achieved top-1 and top-5 errors of 29.51% and 10.37%, respectively.
Although evolutionary-based NAS works were reported to require a considerable
amount of GPU time for architecture search, our approach obtained promising
results in little time, encouraging further experiments in evolutionary-based
NAS, for search and network representation improvements.Comment: Accepted for presentation at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (IEEE CEC) 202
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