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Differentiable Neural Architecture Search

DNAS

20 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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DNAS, or Differentiable Neural Architecture Search, uses gradient-based methods to optimize ConvNet architectures, avoiding enumerating and training individual architectures separately as in previous methods. DNAS allows us to explore a layer-wise search space where we can choose a different block for each layer of the network. DNAS represents the search space by a super net whose operators execute stochastically. It relaxes the problem of finding the optimal architecture to find a distribution that yields the optimal architecture. By using the Gumbel Softmax technique, it is possible to directly train the architecture distribution using gradient-based optimization such as SGD.

The loss used to train the stochastic super net consists of both the cross-entropy loss that leads to better accuracy and the latency loss that penalizes the network's latency on a target device. To estimate the latency of an architecture, the latency of each operator in the search space is measured and a lookup table model is used to compute the overall latency by adding up the latency of each operator. Using this model allows for estimation of the latency of architectures in an enormous search space. More importantly, it makes the latency differentiable with respect to layer-wise block choices.

Source: FBNet: Hardware-Aware Efficient ConvNet Design via...

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 28 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Neural Architecture Search15
GPU3
Evolutionary Algorithms2
Image Classification2
Reinforcement Learning2
Reinforcement Learning (RL)2
Time Series2
reinforcement-learning2
Benchmarking1
Click-Through Rate Prediction1
Diagnostic1
Diversity1
Hardware Aware Neural Architecture Search1
Meta-Learning1
Model Compression1
Object Detection1
Prediction1
Quantization1
Scheduling1
Sensitivity1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with DNAS: 2018 to 2025, peak 4 4 0 2018: 1 paper 2018 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 2 papers 2020 2021: 4 papers 2021 2022: 4 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 4 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (20 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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