Fig. 1. Generic CNN architecture. For each layer an operator is chosen among a pre-defined list (convolution, dilated convolution, depthwise convolution, maxpooling, batch_normalization...) For instance, certain problems require task-specific models, e.g. EfficientNet [11] for image classification and ResNest [12] for semantic segmentation, instance segmentation and object detection. These networks differ on the proper configuration of their architectures and their hyperparameters. The hyperpa- rameters here refer to the pre-defined properties related to the architecture or the training algorithm. Fig. 3. Overview of conventional NAS components Fig. 2. Accuracy of various CNN models on ImageNet for Image Classification task with the number of parameters. Inspired by [14 Fig. 6. Overview of efficient deep learning techniques Fig. 7. The agent-environment interaction in a Markov Decision Process. Source: [38] As illustrated in figure 7, at each step, the agent observes the state of the environment sends and receives a reward for its previous action. It then selects its next action. The reward guides the agent to improve its policy such that better actions are chosen in the future. The policy of an agent is the algorithm that allows it to choose between multiple actions. Fig. 8. Overview of the evolutionary algorithm steps. A genetic algorithm is a type of evolutionary algorithms that encodes the individuals into numerical vectors, called chromosomes. The chromosome is represented as a set of parameters that defines a particular individual. A selection cri- terium is used to select a set of candidate individuals of which the fittest are mutated and recombined by crossover to create the next generation. This algorithm is the simplest version of the evolutionary methods as the chromosomes are numerical vectors and the mutations can be simple permutations. Fig. 9. Overview of different hardware-aware NAS designs. Fig. 10. Architecture search spaces types. (a) Global search space, (b) Cell-based search space, and (c) Hierarchical search space. In orange the operators considered during the search. Fig. 11. Statistics on targeted platforms Fig. 12. Statistics about the type of networks described by the HW-NAS search spaces COMPARISON OF HARDWARE COST MEASUREMENT METHODS. THE HARDWARE COST IS MEASURED ON TESLA K80 GPU. SUMMARY OF HARDWARE COST ESTIMATION METHODS Fig. 14. Comparison of hardware cost measurement methods. LUT stands for Look Up Table. The speedups are calculated w.r.t the real-time measurements. The exact statistics are displayed in table V. See eee COMPARISON OF NAS BENCHMARKS. Fig. 16. Results of different search algorithms on NAS-Bench-201. searche without any further training achieves decent results within 17sec of search. By dividing the benchmarks into N mini-batches, they increase their training efficacy. The higher this number is (V), the higher the over-fitting probability on the benchmark. Therefore, using small datasets with complex search algorithms does not yield any good results in terms of accuracy of the final architecture or efficiency of the search. af Ahhh A DETAILED OVERVIEW OF 15 MOST POPULAR HW-NAS. HWT: HARDWARE TRANSFERABILITY, P: PROXY DATASETS, THPO: TRAINING HYPERPARAMETER OPTIMIZATION, OS: OPEN SOURCE. FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL HW-NAS WORKS, PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/Y6458SKT
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