Affiliation:
1. College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
2. National Innovation Center for UHD Video Technology, Chengdu 610095, China
Abstract
<abstract><p>Evolutionary neural architecture search (ENAS) aims to automate the architecture design of deep neural networks (DNNs). In recent years, various ENAS algorithms have been proposed, and their effectiveness has been demonstrated. In practice, most ENAS methods based on genetic algorithms (GAs) use fixed-length encoding strategies because the generated chromosomes can be directly processed by the standard genetic operators (especially the crossover operator). However, the performance of existing ENAS methods with fixed-length encoding strategies can also be improved because the optimal depth is regarded as a known priori. Although variable-length encoding strategies may alleviate this issue, the standard genetic operators are replaced by the developed operators. In this paper, we proposed a framework to bridge this gap and to improve the performance of existing ENAS methods based on GAs. First, the fixed-length chromosomes were transformed into variable-length chromosomes with the encoding rules of the original ENAS methods. Second, an encoder was proposed to encode variable-length chromosomes into fixed-length representations that can be efficiently processed by standard genetic operators. Third, a decoder cotrained with the encoder was adopted to decode those processed high-dimensional representations which cannot directly describe architectures into original chromosomal forms. Overall, the performances of existing ENAS methods with fixed-length encoding strategies and variable-length encoding strategies have both improved by the proposed framework, and the effectiveness of the framework was justified through experimental results. Moreover, ablation experiments were performed and the results showed that the proposed framework does not negatively affect the original ENAS methods.</p></abstract>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
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