Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2020

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new reinforcement learning (RL) based neural architecture search (NAS) methodology for effective and efficient generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture search. The key idea is to formulate the GAN architecture search problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) for smoother architecture sampling, which enables a more effective RL-based search algorithm by targeting the potential global optimal architecture. To improve efficiency, we exploit an off-policy GAN architecture search algorithm that makes efficient use of the samples generated by previous policies. Evaluation on two standard benchmark datasets (i.e., CIFAR-10 and STL-10) demonstrates that the proposed method is able to discover highly competitive architectures for generally better image generation results with a considerably reduced computational burden: 7 GPU hours.

Keywords

Generative adversarial networks; Markov decision process; Neural architecture search; Off-policy; Reinforcement learning

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Systems Architecture

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23–28

Volume

12352

First Page

175

Last Page

192

ISBN

9783030585709

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-030-58571-6_11

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Glasgow

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