In many real world scenarios, deep learning models such as neural networks are deployed to make predictions on data coming from a shifted distribution (aka covariate shift) or out-of-distribution (OOD) data not at all represented in the training set. Examples include blurred or noisy images, unknown objects in images or videos, a new frequency band […]

The Need for Realistic NAS Benchmarks Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a logical next step in representation learning as it removes human bias from architecture design, similar to deep learning removing human bias from feature engineering. As such, NAS has experienced rapid growth in recent years, leading to state-of-the-art performance on many tasks. However, empirical […]

By Understanding and Robustifying Differentiable Architecture Search Optimizing in the search of neural network architectures was initially defined as a discrete problem which intrinsically required to train and evaluate thousands of networks. This of course required huge amount of computational power, which was only possible for few institutions. One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) democratized this […]

By Compared to the state of computer vision 20 years ago, deep learning has enabled more generic methodologies that can be applied to various tasks by automatically extracting meaningful features from the data. However, in practice those methodologies are not as generic as it looks at first glance. While standard neural networks may lead to […]