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The neural network research field is still producing novel and improved models which continuously outperform their predecessors. However, a large portion of the best-performing architectures are still fully hand-engineered by experts. Recently, methods that automatize the search for optimal structures have started to reach the level of state-of-the-art hand-crafted structures. Nevertheless, replacing the expert knowledge requires high efficiency from the search algorithm, and flexibility on the part of the model concept. This work proposes a set of model structure-modifying operators designed specifically for the VALP, a recently introduced multi-network model for heterogeneous multi-task problems. These modifiers are employed in a greedy multi-objective search algorithm which employs a non dominance-based acceptance criterion in order to test the viability of a structure-exploring method built on the operators. The results obtained from the experiments carried out in this work indicate that the modifiers can indeed form part of intelligent searches over the space of VALP structures, which encourages more research in this direction.
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This work has been supported by the TIN2016-78365-R (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness) and the IT-1244-19 (Basque Government) programs http://www.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/mineco. Unai Garciarena also holds a predoctoral grant (ref. PIF16/238) by the University of the Basque Country.
We also gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of a Titan X Pascal GPU used to accelerate the process of training the models used in this work.
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Garciarena, U., Mendiburu, A., Santana, R. (2020). Automatic Structural Search for Multi-task Learning VALPs. In: Dorronsoro, B., Ruiz, P., de la Torre, J., Urda, D., Talbi, EG. (eds) Optimization and Learning. OLA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41913-4_3
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