Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
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Developing neural network image classification models often requires significant architecture engineering. In this paper, we attempt to automate this engineering process by learning the model architectures directly on the dataset of interest. As this approach is expensive when the dataset is large, we propose to search for an architectural building block on a small dataset and then transfer the block to a larger dataset. Our key contribution is the design of a new search space which enables transferability. In our experiments, we search for the best convolutional layer (or "cell") on the CIFAR-10 dataset and then apply this cell to the ImageNet dataset by stacking together more copies of this cell, each with their own parameters. Although the cell is not searched for directly on ImageNet, an architecture constructed from the best cell achieves, among the published works, state-of-the-art accuracy of 82.7 and 96.2 the best human-invented architectures while having 9 billion fewer FLOPS -- a reduction of 28 model. When evaluated at different levels of computational cost, accuracies of our models exceed those of the state-of-the-art human-designed models. For instance, a smaller network constructed from the best cell also achieves 74 top-1 accuracy, which is 3.1 models for mobile platforms. On CIFAR-10, an architecture constructed from the best cell achieves 2.4 the image features learned from image classification can also be transferred to other computer vision problems. On the task of object detection, the learned features used with the Faster-RCNN framework surpass state-of-the-art by 4.0 achieving 43.1
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