Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has now become one of the mainstream paradigms of neural architecture search. However, it largely suffers from several disturbing factors of optimization process whose results are unstable to reproduce. FairDARTS points out that skip connections natively have an unfair advantage in exclusive competition which primarily leads to dramatic performance collapse. While FairDARTS turns the unfair competition into a collaborative one, we instead impede such unfair advantage by injecting unbiased random noise into skip operations' output. In effect, the optimizer should perceive this difficulty at each training step and refrain from overshooting on skip connections, but in a long run it still converges to the right solution area since no bias is added to the gradient. We name this novel approach as NoisyDARTS. Our experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet attest that it can effectively break the skip connection's unfair advantage and yield better performance. It generates a series of models that achieve state-of-the-art results on both datasets.

Genetic genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

But the scientists still aren’t sure what the birds are saying

A recent excavation located the first physical evidence of the capital of the Maya kingdom of Sak Tz'i', founded in 750 B.C.

No SARS-CoV-2 infections have yet been detected in our closest living relatives. But there is precedent for viruses jumping from people to other great apes

Matilda McCrear was just 2 when she was captured and brought to Alabama on the "Clotilda"

The bright blue pigment that adorns the Bust of Nefertiti’s crown can now be used to study molecular biology

A treasure trove of new fossils unearthed in Australia reveals some raunchily-positioned bugs

Nuclear bomb tests caused a spike in a radioactive form of carbon that accumulated in living things

'The break in the scientific record is probably unprecedented,' one ecologist says

The computer program can identify canine versus human feces based on DNA sequences in samples

The purplish-blue pigment, derived from a Portuguese fruit, fell out of use by the 19th century

Nearly 2,000 years ago, women who rode horseback and practiced archery may have roamed the steppes of Mongolia

New scans revealed the figure's now-faded eyelashes and green backdrop, but her identity remains a mystery

Find the capital cities, working from a list of state names

See how researchers at Smithsonian's National Zoo are trying to glean insight into elephant foraging behavior and more.

The following is a guest post by Katherine Blood, Curator of Fine Prints, Prints & Photographs Division. As the Library of Congress marks its 220th year of serving the nation, the publication of a new guide tells two stories: how staff have for decades worked with art professionals to build the collections and how by […]

With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, an international group of scientists, including the teams of Bart Lambrecht, Martin Guilliams, Hamida Hammad, and Charlotte Scott (all from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) identified a new type of antigen-presenting immune cell.

They're not necessarily treating sick patients in hospitals, but a number of Manitoba-based scientists are working long hours and facing incredible pressure to battle the novel coronavirus from their labs and research facilities.

Former Gov. Rick Snyder says news coverage about search warrants being used to get his state-issued cellphone and computer from government storage in the Flint water investigation is "very sloppy and misleading."

The number of cases of COVID-19 in First Nations reserves continues to rise this week, with 161 confirmed positive cases reported as of May 5.

Twenty-five years after meeting Johnny Cash, a Newfoundland musician is trying to track down a photo of the pair.

A search warrant executed by Hamilton police vice and drugs officers at an address in the city’s east end has resulted in the arrest of a couple and multiple charges, police said in a Friday release.

If the president had listened to the World Health Organization, American lives would have been saved.

Amanda Moore, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, is on track to graduate from Penn State Mont Alto this May with a degree in psychology. She credits her academic success with Mont Alto's strong focus on research and varied program offerings.

Penn State Mont Alto recognizes and honors winners during awards ceremony

To me, one of the handiest SOLIDWORKS ease-of-use functions hides in plain view: The Command Search. Found at the top of the application, the SOLIDWORKS Search box can be set to several different types of search, but the one I

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One of my favorite new things in the SOLIDWORKS 2020 portfolio is Quick Search in SOLIDWORKS PDM. This tool presents the user with a “Google-like” ability to simply type in search terms across multiple metadata fields, using logical operators to

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To provide an overview and quantitatively demonstrate the reach of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau autism research program.

The evidence that culturally responsive teaching can fix the nation's schools for children of color is promising, but woefully incomplete, writes Heather C. Hill.

There are nearly 2 million homeschooled students in the United States, making homeschooling a small, but integral part of the K-12 education ecosystem.