Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
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| author | Jeon, Jeimin Oh, Youngmin Lee, Junghyup Baek, Donghyeon Kim, Dohyung Eom, Chanho Ham, Bumsub |
| author_facet | Jeon, Jeimin Oh, Youngmin Lee, Junghyup Baek, Donghyeon Kim, Dohyung Eom, Chanho Ham, Bumsub |
| contents | N-shot neural architecture search (NAS) exploits a supernet containing all candidate subnets for a given search space. The subnets are typically trained with a static training strategy (e.g., using the same learning rate (LR) scheduler and optimizer for all subnets). This, however, does not consider that individual subnets have distinct characteristics, leading to two problems: (1) The supernet training is biased towards the low-complexity subnets (unfairness); (2) the momentum update in the supernet is noisy (noisy momentum). We present a dynamic supernet training technique to address these problems by adjusting the training strategy adaptive to the subnets. Specifically, we introduce a complexity-aware LR scheduler (CaLR) that controls the decay ratio of LR adaptive to the complexities of subnets, which alleviates the unfairness problem. We also present a momentum separation technique (MS). It groups the subnets with similar structural characteristics and uses a separate momentum for each group, avoiding the noisy momentum problem. Our approach can be applicable to various N-shot NAS methods with marginal cost, while improving the search performance drastically. We validate the effectiveness of our approach on various search spaces (e.g., NAS-Bench-201, Mobilenet spaces) and datasets (e.g., CIFAR-10/100, ImageNet). |
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| spellingShingle | Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search Jeon, Jeimin Oh, Youngmin Lee, Junghyup Baek, Donghyeon Kim, Dohyung Eom, Chanho Ham, Bumsub Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition N-shot neural architecture search (NAS) exploits a supernet containing all candidate subnets for a given search space. The subnets are typically trained with a static training strategy (e.g., using the same learning rate (LR) scheduler and optimizer for all subnets). This, however, does not consider that individual subnets have distinct characteristics, leading to two problems: (1) The supernet training is biased towards the low-complexity subnets (unfairness); (2) the momentum update in the supernet is noisy (noisy momentum). We present a dynamic supernet training technique to address these problems by adjusting the training strategy adaptive to the subnets. Specifically, we introduce a complexity-aware LR scheduler (CaLR) that controls the decay ratio of LR adaptive to the complexities of subnets, which alleviates the unfairness problem. We also present a momentum separation technique (MS). It groups the subnets with similar structural characteristics and uses a separate momentum for each group, avoiding the noisy momentum problem. Our approach can be applicable to various N-shot NAS methods with marginal cost, while improving the search performance drastically. We validate the effectiveness of our approach on various search spaces (e.g., NAS-Bench-201, Mobilenet spaces) and datasets (e.g., CIFAR-10/100, ImageNet). |
| title | Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10740 |