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by nl 3019 days ago
"Novel Cells" are combinations of existing operators.

It's entirely true that these are combinations that humans haven't (and probably wouldn't) come up with.

I don't want to underplay this. "It's similar to hyperparameter search" makes it sound like it isn't interesting or novel, which is untrue. I completely believe it is a revolutionary way to build software (so much so that I quit my job, raised funding and are working on a similar space of problems).

But it isn't doing something like inventing a new math operations similar to the other operators which humans put together to form cells/layers. It is rearranging and choosing those operators in new ways.

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Okay I see what you're saying and I completely agree.
You maybe interested in their most recent paper and blog post from today: https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/using-evolutionary-a...
Wow thanks, reading it now (: