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DARTS differentiable architecture search

Contribution grade

Neural architecture search · Human-designed research method or resource

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What changed

Relaxes discrete operation choices into softmax mixtures and approximates a train/validation bilevel objective with alternating weight and architecture-gradient updates before discretization.

Scientific scope

Relaxes discrete operation choices into softmax mixtures and approximates a train/validation bilevel objective with alternating weight and architecture-gradient updates before discretization. Gradient-based search selected architectures within a researcher-defined continuous relaxation; human authors designed the method, search space and evaluation. One-step unrolling and finite differences approximate the bilevel gradient. The original explicitly gives no convergence guarantee; the relaxed optimum need not preserve performance after discrete projection.

Evidence

Gradient-based search selected architectures within a researcher-defined continuous relaxation; human authors designed the method, search space and evaluation. WRS has not independently rerun these experiments. Gradient-based search selected architectures within a researcher-defined continuous relaxation; human authors designed the method, search space and evaluation. One-step unrolling and finite differences approximate the bilevel gradient. The original explicitly gives no convergence guarantee; the relaxed optimum need not preserve performance after discrete projection.

Contributors

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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