Exploring single-path Architecture Search ranking correlations
Authors: Kevin Alexander Laube, Andreas Zell
Keywords: Neural Architecture Search, AutoML, Neural Networks
Abstract: Recently presented benchmarks for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) provide the results of training thousands of different architectures in a specific search space, thus enabling the fair and rapid comparison of different methods.
Based on these results, we quantify the ranking correlations of single-path architecture search methods
in different search space subsets and under several training variations;
studying their impact on the expected search results.
The experiments support the few-shot approach and Linear Transformers,
provide evidence against disabling cell topology sharing during the training phase or using strong regularization in the NAS-Bench-201 search space,
and show the necessity of further research regarding super-network size and path sampling strategies.