RankNAS: Efficient Neural Architecture Search by Pairwise Ranking (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods require training millions of architectures to estimate the accuracy of the search results. |
| Approach: | They propose a performance ranking method (RankNAS) that uses pairwise ranking and search space pruning to enlarge the search space. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly accelerates NAS through pairwise ranking and search space pruning. |
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