Online Hyper-Parameter Learning for Auto-Augmentation Strategy

Chen Lin, Minghao Guo, Chuming Li, Xin Yuan, Wei Wu, Junjie Yan, Dahua Lin, Wanli Ouyang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 6579-6588

Abstract


Data augmentation is critical to the success of modern deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose Online Hyper-parameter Learning for Auto-Augmentation (OHL-Auto-Aug), an economical solution that learns the augmentation policy distribution along with network training. Unlike previous methods on auto-augmentation that search augmentation strategies in an offline manner, our method formulates the augmentation policy as a parameterized probability distribution, thus allowing its parameters to be optimized jointly with network parameters. Our proposed OHL-Auto-Aug eliminates the need of re-training and dramatically reduces the cost of the overall search process, while establishes significantly accuracy improvements over baseline models. On both CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, our method achieves remarkable on search accuracy, 60x faster on CIFAR-10 and 24x faster on ImageNet, while maintaining competitive accuracies.

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@InProceedings{Lin_2019_ICCV,
author = {Lin, Chen and Guo, Minghao and Li, Chuming and Yuan, Xin and Wu, Wei and Yan, Junjie and Lin, Dahua and Ouyang, Wanli},
title = {Online Hyper-Parameter Learning for Auto-Augmentation Strategy},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}