Neural Architecture Search for Lightweight Neural Network in Food Recognition

Ren Zhang Tan, XinYing Chew and Khai Wah Khaw
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Ren Zhang Tan: School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
XinYing Chew: School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Khai Wah Khaw: School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11800, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 11, 1-14

Abstract: Healthy eating is an essential element to prevent obesity that will lead to chronic diseases. Despite numerous efforts to promote the awareness of healthy food consumption, the obesity rate has been increased in the past few years. An automated food recognition system is needed to serve as a fundamental source of information for promoting a balanced diet and assisting users to understand their meal consumption. In this paper, we propose a novel Lightweight Neural Architecture Search (LNAS) model to self-generate a thin Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that can be executed on mobile devices with limited processing power. LNAS has a sophisticated search space and modern search strategy to design a child model with reinforcement learning. Extensive experiments have been conducted to evaluate the model generated by LNAS, namely LNAS-NET. The experimental result shows that the proposed LNAS-NET outperformed the state-of-the-art lightweight models in terms of training speed and accuracy metric. Those experiments indicate the effectiveness of LNAS without sacrificing the model performance. It provides a good direction to move toward the era of AutoML and mobile-friendly neural model design.

Keywords: deep learning; reinforcement learning; Convolutional Neural Network; Neural Architecture Search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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