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# [Searching for A Robust Neural Architecture in Four GPU Hours](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04465)
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<img align="right" src="http://xuanyidong.com/resources/paper-icon/CVPR-2019-GDAS.png" width="300">
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Searching for A Robust Neural Architecture in Four GPU Hours is accepted at CVPR 2019.
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In this paper, we proposed a Gradient-based searching algorithm using Differentiable Architecture Sampling (GDAS).
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GDAS is baseed on DARTS and improves it with Gumbel-softmax sampling.
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Concurrently at the submission period, several NAS papers (SNAS and FBNet) also utilized Gumbel-softmax sampling. We are different at how to forward and backward, see more details in our paper and codes.
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Experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNet, PTB, and WT2 are reported.
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## Requirements and Preparation
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Please install `Python>=3.6` and `PyTorch>=1.5.0`.
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CIFAR and ImageNet should be downloaded and extracted into `$TORCH_HOME`.
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### Usefull tools
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1. Compute the number of parameters and FLOPs of a model:
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```
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from utils import get_model_infos
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flop, param = get_model_infos(net, (1,3,32,32))
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```
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2. Different NAS-searched architectures are defined [here](https://github.com/D-X-Y/AutoDL-Projects/blob/main/xautodl/nas_infer_model/DXYs/genotypes.py).
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## Usage
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### Reproducing the results of our searched architecture in GDAS
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Please use the following scripts to train the searched GDAS-searched CNN on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and ImageNet.
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```
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts/nas-infer-train.sh cifar10 GDAS_V1 96 -1
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts/nas-infer-train.sh cifar100 GDAS_V1 96 -1
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3 bash ./scripts/nas-infer-train.sh imagenet-1k GDAS_V1 256 -1
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```
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If you are interested in the configs of each NAS-searched architecture, they are defined at [genotypes.py](https://github.com/D-X-Y/AutoDL-Projects/blob/main/xautodl/nas_infer_model/DXYs/genotypes.py).
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### Searching on the NASNet search space
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Please use the following scripts to use GDAS to search as in the original paper:
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```
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# search for both normal and reduction cells
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/NASNet-space-search-by-GDAS.sh cifar10 1 -1
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# search for the normal cell while use a fixed reduction cell
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/NASNet-space-search-by-GDAS-FRC.sh cifar10 1 -1
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```
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**After searching**, if you want to re-train the searched architecture found by the above script, you can use the following script:
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```
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts/retrain-searched-net.sh cifar10 gdas-searched \
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output/search-cell-darts/GDAS-cifar10-BN1/checkpoint/seed-945-basic.pth 96 -1
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```
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Note that `gdas-searched` is a string to indicate the name of the saved dir and `output/search-cell-darts/GDAS-cifar10-BN1/checkpoint/seed-945-basic.pth` is the file path that the searching algorithm generated.
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The above script does not apply heavy augmentation to train the model, so the accuracy will be lower than the original paper.
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If you want to change the default hyper-parameter for re-training, please have a look at `./scripts/retrain-searched-net.sh` and `configs/archs/NAS-*-none.config`.
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### Searching on a small search space (NAS-Bench-201)
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The GDAS searching codes on a small search space:
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```
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/algos/GDAS.sh cifar10 1 -1
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```
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The baseline searching codes are DARTS:
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```
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/algos/DARTS-V1.sh cifar10 1 -1
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/algos/DARTS-V2.sh cifar10 1 -1
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```
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**After searching**, if you want to train the searched architecture found by the above scripts, please use the following codes:
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```
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CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 bash ./scripts-search/NAS-Bench-201/train-a-net.sh '|nor_conv_3x3~0|+|nor_conv_3x3~0|nor_conv_3x3~1|+|skip_connect~0|skip_connect~1|skip_connect~2|' 16 5
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```
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`|nor_conv_3x3~0|+|nor_conv_3x3~0|nor_conv_3x3~1|+|skip_connect~0|skip_connect~1|skip_connect~2|` represents the structure of a searched architecture. My codes will automatically print it during the searching procedure.
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**Tensorflow codes for GDAS are in experimental state**, which locates at `exps-tf`.
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# Citation
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If you find that this project helps your research, please consider citing the following paper:
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```
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@inproceedings{dong2019search,
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title = {Searching for A Robust Neural Architecture in Four GPU Hours},
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author = {Dong, Xuanyi and Yang, Yi},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
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pages = {1761--1770},
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year = {2019}
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}
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```
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