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PruneNet efficiently prunes channels in deep networks, improving accuracy and performance.
Proposes dynamic channel pruning during neural network training.
A new method prunes neural network channels based on operation characteristics.
Gradual pruning reduces inference cost by pruning least important channels during training.
To address the limitations of existing magnitude-based pruning algorithms in cases where model weights or activations are of large and similar magnitude, we propose a novel perspective to discover parameter redundancy among channels and accelerate deep CNNs via channel pruning. Precisely, we argue that channels reveali…
CPOT prunes deep networks by identifying redundant filters using optimal transport.
The study reveals flaws in pruning criteria and proposes a new assumption for better filter selection.
Compression techniques for deep neural networks are important for implementing them on small embedded devices. In particular, channel-pruning is a useful technique for realizing compact networks. However, many conventional methods require manual setting of compression ratios in each layer. It is difficult to analyze th…
Performance-aware channel pruning improves CNN on embedded GPUs.
Random layer-wise pruning profiles are as effective as metric-based ones for various datasets.
Paper proposes neural network for efficient MIMO channel estimation and pilot reduction.
Speeds up training and inference by pruning entire channels before training.
A new method quantifies feature-map discriminativeness for efficient pruning of deep neural networks.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is widely impeded by their intensive computational and memory cost. In this paper, we…
The task of accelerating large neural networks on general purpose hardware has, in recent years, prompted the use of channel pruning to reduce network size. However, the efficacy of pruning based approaches has since been called into question. In this paper, we turn to distillation for model compression---specifically,…
A method to combine saliency metrics for better CNN pruning decisions.
Dirichlet pruning compresses neural networks by removing unimportant units.
Pruning unimportant parameters can allow deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce their heavy computation and memory requirements. A saliency metric estimates which parameters can be safely pruned with little impact on the classification performance of the DNN. Many saliency metrics have been proposed, each within the con…
ResRep prunes CNNs without losing accuracy by separating remembering and forgetting.
Neural network pruning is an important step in design process of efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational power. Pruning is a form of knowledge transfer from the weights of the original network to a smaller target subnetwork. We propose a new method for compute-constrained structured channe…
Artificial neural network has achieved unprecedented success in the medical domain. This success depends on the availability of massive and representative datasets. However, data collection is often prevented by privacy concerns and people want to take control over their sensitive information during both training and u…
Channel Pruning, widely used for accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks, is an NP-hard problem due to the inter-layer dependency of channel redundancy. Existing methods generally ignored the above dependency for computation simplicity. To solve the problem, under the Bayesian framework, we here propose a layer-wise…
In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones and so on. Therefore, network compression for such platforms is a reasonable so…
Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art results on several tasks while increasing in complexity. It has been shown that neural networks can be pruned during training by imposing sparsity inducing regularizers. In this paper, we investigate two techniques for group-wise pruning during training in order to improve …
Auto-Compressing Subset Pruning reduces model size for faster inference.
This paper introduces channel gating, a dynamic, fine-grained, and hardware-efficient pruning scheme to reduce the computation cost for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Channel gating identifies regions in the features that contribute less to the classification result, and skips the computation on a subset of the …
Existing methods for reducing the computational burden of neural networks at run-time, such as parameter pruning or dynamic computational path selection, focus solely on improving computational efficiency during inference. On the other hand, in this work, we propose a novel method which reduces the memory footprint and…
Paper improves robustness and sparsity in adversarially trained DNNs.
We study channel number reduction in combination with weight binarization (1-bit weight precision) to trim a convolutional neural network for a keyword spotting (classification) task. We adopt a group-wise splitting method based on the group Lasso penalty to achieve over 50% channel sparsity while maintaining the netwo…
Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of structured pruning has largely evaded scrutiny. In this paper, we examine ResNe…
A new pruning method improves neural network efficiency and accuracy.
Deep Neural Networks are highly over-parameterized and the size of the neural networks can be reduced significantly after training without any decrease in performance. One can clearly see this phenomenon in a wide range of architectures trained for various problems. Weight/channel pruning, distillation, quantization, m…
Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular network connections that not only demand extra representation efforts but also …
Paper proposes a method to prune neural networks, reducing storage and computation costs.
As a result of the growing size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the gap to hardware capabilities in terms of memory and compute increases. To effectively compress DNNs, quantization and connection pruning are usually considered. However, unconstrained pruning usually leads to unstructured parallelism, which maps poorly…
Architecture optimization, which is a technique for finding an efficient neural network that meets certain requirements, generally reduces to a set of multiple-choice selection problems among alternative sub-structures or parameters. The discrete nature of the selection problem, however, makes this optimization difficu…
Besides accuracy, the model size of convolutional neural networks (CNN) models is another important factor considering limited hardware resources in practical applications. For example, employing deep neural networks on mobile systems requires the design of accurate yet fast CNN for low latency in classification and ob…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are extremely computationally demanding, presenting a large barrier to their deployment on resource-constrained devices. Since such systems are where some of their most useful applications lie (e.g. obstacle detection for mobile robots, vision-based medical assistive technology), si…
Unified framework compresses GANs up to 47x with minimal quality loss.
This paper accelerates sparse CNN layers on GPUs by using unstructured sparsity.
Improved ROCKET algorithm for brain activity classification.
Paper presents privacy-preserving techniques for HD computing.
Most recent studies on deep learning based speech enhancement (SE) focused on improving denoising performance. However, successful SE applications require striking a desirable balance between denoising performance and computational cost in real scenarios. In this study, we propose a novel parameter pruning (PP) techniq…
Recent pruning methods at initialization fall short of random pruning's accuracy.
ICE-Pruning accelerates deep neural network pruning by 9.61x.
DSA efficiently allocates sparsity across layers for budgeted pruning.
Magnitude-based pruning is one of the simplest methods for pruning neural networks. Despite its simplicity, magnitude-based pruning and its variants demonstrated remarkable performances for pruning modern architectures. Based on the observation that magnitude-based pruning indeed minimizes the Frobenius distortion of a…
Pruning neural network parameters is often viewed as a means to compress models, but pruning has also been motivated by the desire to prevent overfitting. This motivation is particularly relevant given the perhaps surprising observation that a wide variety of pruning approaches increase test accuracy despite sometimes …