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Fine-Tuning DARTS for Image Classification

16 Jun 2020arXiv:2006.09042archive 2025-07-28

Muhammad Suhaib Tanveer, Muhammad Umar Karim Khan, Chong-Min Kyung

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained attraction due to superior classification performance. Differential Architecture Search (DARTS) is a computationally light method. To limit computational resources DARTS makes numerous approximations. These approximations result in inferior performance. We propose to fine-tune DARTS using fixed operations as they are independent of these approximations. Our method offers a good trade-off between the number of parameters and classification accuracy. Our approach improves the top-1 accuracy on Fashion-MNIST, CompCars, and MIO-TCD datasets by 0.56%, 0.50%, and 0.39%, respectively compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. Our approach performs better than DARTS, improving the accuracy by 0.28%, 1.64%, 0.34%, 4.5%, and 3.27% compared to DARTS, on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Fashion-MNIST, CompCars, and MIO-TCD datasets, respectively.

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ClassificationFine-Grained Image ClassificationGeneral ClassificationImage ClassificationNeural Architecture Searchimage-classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Fine-Grained Image Classification CompCars Fine-Tuning DARTS Accuracy 95.9% #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report

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DARTSEntropy RegularizationLSTMNeural Architecture SearchPPOSigmoid ActivationSoftmaxTanh Activation

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