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Shapley-NAS: Discovering Operation Contribution for Neural Architecture Search

20 Jun 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2206.09811archive 2025-07-28

Han Xiao, Ziwei Wang, Zheng Zhu, Jie zhou, Jiwen Lu

In this paper, we propose a Shapley value based method to evaluate operation contribution (Shapley-NAS) for neural architecture search. Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) acquires the optimal architectures by optimizing the architecture parameters with gradient descent, which significantly reduces the search cost. However, the magnitude of architecture parameters updated by gradient descent fails to reveal the actual operation importance to the task performance and therefore harms the effectiveness of obtained architectures. By contrast, we propose to evaluate the direct influence of operations on validation accuracy. To deal with the complex relationships between supernet components, we leverage Shapley value to quantify their marginal contributions by considering all possible combinations. Specifically, we iteratively optimize the supernet weights and update the architecture parameters by evaluating operation contributions via Shapley value, so that the optimal architectures are derived by selecting the operations that contribute significantly to the tasks. Since the exact computation of Shapley value is NP-hard, the Monte-Carlo sampling based algorithm with early truncation is employed for efficient approximation, and the momentum update mechanism is adopted to alleviate fluctuation of the sampling process. Extensive experiments on various datasets and various search spaces show that our Shapley-NAS outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a considerable margin with light search cost. The code is available at https://github.com/Euphoria16/Shapley-NAS.git

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Neural Architecture Search

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Neural Architecture Search CIFAR-10 Shapley-NAS(best) Parameters 3.6M #14 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search CIFAR-10 Shapley-NAS(best) Top-1 Error Rate 2.43% #14 of 41 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search ImageNet Shapley-NAS MACs 582M #92 of 135 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search ImageNet Shapley-NAS Params 5.4M #92 of 135 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search ImageNet Shapley-NAS Top-1 Error Rate 23.9 #92 of 135 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, CIFAR-10 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Test) 94.37 #2 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, CIFAR-10 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Val) 91.61 #2 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, CIFAR-100 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Test) 73.51 #3 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, CIFAR-100 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Val) 73.49 #3 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, ImageNet-16-120 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Test) 46.85 #2 of 49 Archive leaderboard report
Neural Architecture Search NAS-Bench-201, ImageNet-16-120 Shapley-NAS Accuracy (Val) 46.57 #2 of 49 Archive leaderboard report

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