Review for NeurIPS paper: Differentiable Neural Architecture Search in Equivalent Space with Exploration Enhancement

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Weaknesses: The paper is not very novel or significant in its contribution. It compiles two regularization methods to mitigate two long-standing problems in differentiable NAS, however, the proposed methods are not very novel. NAS-Bench is not a very well established benchmark that not many people are very familiar with. It is not fair to compare with existing work on NAS-bench, as most of them were not optimized on NAS-Bench. For instance, the DARTS work may work equally well with proper hyperparameter tuning and regularization. With the existing DARTS hyperparmeters, search on NAS-bench converges to networks with only identity/skip operation.