{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:4d9cc7c3db53b8e5","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"Direct comparison under the same search space shows that our method is up to 5 times more efficient than the RL method of Zoph et al. (2018) in terms of number of models evaluated, and 8 times faster in terms of total compute.","quote":"Direct comparison under the same search space shows that our method is up to 5 times more efficient than the RL method of Zoph et al. (2018) in terms of number of models evaluated, and 8 times faster in terms of total compute.","test":"Refuted if a direct comparison under the same search space shows that the SMBO method is not up to 5 times more efficient than the RL method of Zoph et al. 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