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Toward efficient neural architecture search with dynamic mapping-adaptive sampling for resource-limited edge device

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To account for both network accuracy and deployment efficiency, multi-objective NAS has been proposed. However, these methods are still inefficient. As a result of the previous coarse-grained performance descriptions, the acquisition of feasible networks is limited, reducing the effectiveness and efficiency of search direction updates. As a consequence, a large number of ineffective network structures that do not meet the application requirements are sampled and trained, significantly reducing search efficiency. To address the two issues, this paper uses adaptive dataflow mapping to describe the inference latency of the sampled network structures in a fine-grained manner, thereby expanding the search space of available networks. The sampling behavior is dynamically adjusted in accordance with the system latency requirement and the allocable latency for each layer. The sampled network structure’s latency will approach the system requirement. Finally, by reducing the number of infeasible networks, search efficiency is improved. Experiments show that comparing state-of-the-art methods, the accuracy of the networks searched by our framework can be improved by up to 7.93\(\%\) while meeting specific inference latency requirements. However, search efficiency can be improved up to 2.35\(\times \).

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Yang, Z., Sun, Q. Toward efficient neural architecture search with dynamic mapping-adaptive sampling for resource-limited edge device. Neural Comput & Applic 35, 5553–5573 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07984-x

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