Delta-Based Neural Architecture Search: LLM Fine-Tuning via Code Diffs
Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for neural architecture generation, yet existing approaches produce complete model implementations from scratch -- computationally expensive and yielding verbose code. We propose Delta-Code Generation, where fine-tuned LLMs generate compact unified diffs (deltas) to refine baseline architectures rather than synthesizing entire models. Our pipeline iteratively fine-tunes the LLM via LoRA on curated architectures from the LEMUR dataset, with MinHash-Jaccard novelty filtering for structural diversity. We evaluate three 7B-class LLMs -- DeepSeek-Coder-7B, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B, and Mistral-7B -- across six datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, MNIST, SVHN, ImageNette, CelebA) using a 22-cycle protocol (1,100 candidates per LLM). All three substantially surpass the full-generation baseline (50.6% valid rate, 42.3% mean first-epoch accuracy): DeepSeek-Coder reaches 75.3% valid rate and 65.8% mean accuracy; Qwen2.5-Coder 72.1%/64.6%; Mistral 66.6%/66.1%. On CIFAR-10, best first-epoch accuracies reach 85.5% (Mistral), 85.2% (DeepSeek), 80.6% (Qwen) -- well above 63.98% full generation and 71.5% for the concurrent approach of Gu et al. Output lengths are 30-50 lines versus 200+ for full generation (75-85% reduction). A 50-epoch study confirms the 1-epoch proxy preserves rankings (Mistral: Spearman $ρ$ = 0.926). Delta-based generation is a token-efficient, multi-domain, LLM-agnostic alternative to full-model synthesis for LLM-driven NAS.
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| Rank | Task | Dataset | Model | Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #83 | Neural Architecture Search | CIFAR-10 | Delta-Code | Accuracy (% ): 66.1 |
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