## Efficient evolutionary deep neural architecture search (NAS) by noisy network morphism mutation.(English)Zbl 07240067

Pan, Linqiang (ed.) et al., Bio-inspired computing: theories and applications. 14th international conference, BIC-TA 2019, Zhengzhou, China, November 22–25, 2019. Revised selected papers. Part II. Singapore: Springer. Commun. Comput. Inf. Sci. 1160, 497-508 (2020).
Summary: Deep learning has achieved enormous breakthroughs in the field of image recognition. However, due to the time-consuming and error-prone process in discovering novel neural architecture, it remains a challenge for designing a specific network in handling a particular task. Hence, many automated neural architecture search methods are proposed to find suitable deep neural network architecture for a specific task without human experts. Nevertheless, these methods are still computationally/economically expensive, since they require a vast amount of computing resource and/or computational time. In this paper, we propose several network morphism mutation operators with extra noise, and further redesign the macro-architecture based on the classical network. The proposed methods are embedded in an evolutionary algorithm and tested on CIFAR-10 classification task. Experimental results indicate the capability of our proposed method in discovering powerful neural architecture which has achieved a classification error 2.55% with only 4.7M parameters on CIFAR-10 within 12 GPU-hours.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1440.68010].

### MSC:

 68Q07 Biologically inspired models of computation (DNA computing, membrane computing, etc.)

### Software:

SGDR; Xception; Net2Net; DARTS ; mixup
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