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[bibtex]@InProceedings{Lin_2021_ICCV, author = {Lin, Ming and Wang, Pichao and Sun, Zhenhong and Chen, Hesen and Sun, Xiuyu and Qian, Qi and Li, Hao and Jin, Rong}, title = {Zen-NAS: A Zero-Shot NAS for High-Performance Image Recognition}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2021}, pages = {347-356} }
Zen-NAS: A Zero-Shot NAS for High-Performance Image Recognition
Abstract
Accuracy predictor is a key component in Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ranking architectures. Building a high-quality accuracy predictor usually costs enormous computation. To address this issue, instead of using an accuracy predictor, we propose a novel zero-shot index dubbed Zen-Score to rank the architectures. The Zen-Score represents the network expressivity and positively correlates with the model accuracy. The calculation of Zen-Score only takes a few forward inferences through a randomly initialized network, without training network parameters. Built upon the Zen-Score, we further propose a new NAS algorithm, termed as Zen-NAS, by maximizing the Zen-Score of the target network under given inference budgets. Within less than half GPU day, Zen-NAS is able to directly search high performance architectures in a data-free style. Comparing with previous NAS methods, the proposed Zen-NAS is magnitude times faster on multiple server-side and mobile-side GPU platforms with state-of-the-art accuracy on ImageNet. Searching and training code as well as pre-trained models are available from https://github.com/idstcv/ZenNAS.
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