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48 results for network compression

Study shows LLC correlates with neural network compressibility.

problem Evaluating limits of neural network compression.
method Extended minimum description length principle using singular learning theory.
result Complexity estimates based on LLC are linearly correlated with compressibility.

Galen algorithm compresses neural networks for specific hardware with reduced latency.

problem Finding optimal compression policies for neural networks on specific hardware.
method Reinforcement learning using pruning and quantization to optimize inference latency.
result Compressed ResNet18 for ARM processor reduced inference latency by 80%.

New study reveals how heavy-tailed SGD dynamics lead to compressible neural networks.

problem Understanding why large neural networks can be compressed effectively.
method Linking SGD dynamics to compressibility properties of neural networks.
result Large step-size/batch-size ratios and overparametrization lead to heavy-tailed SGD dynamics, making networks compressible.

G-CREWE efficiently aligns large networks using node embeddings and compression.

problem Efficiently aligning large networks for various applications.
method Uses node embeddings and compression to align networks at fine and coarse resolutions.
result G-CREWE achieves efficient and accurate network alignment, twice as fast as existing methods.

Theoretical framework for neural network compression using sparsity norms.

problem Understanding and quantifying compressibility and accuracy trade-offs in neural networks.
method Using sparsity-sensitive ℓ_q-norm to characterize compressibility and developing adaptive pruning algorithms.
result Theoretical relationship between network sparsity and compressibility with controlled accuracy degradation.

We compress large neural networks for quick adaptation to specific contexts.

problem How to quickly adapt a pretrained large neural network to specific contexts.
method Propose a Bayesian hypernetwork framework to compress the network and encourage sparsity.
result Generated compressed networks are significantly smaller than baseline methods.

DP-Net uses dynamic programming for efficient deep neural network compression.

problem Efficiently compressing deep neural networks while maintaining accuracy.
method Dynamic Programming for optimal weight quantization and clustering-friendly training.
result Achieves up to 77X compression ratio on Wide ResNet with minimal accuracy loss.

Proposes a method to train neural networks directly on compressed text data.

problem Training neural networks on compressed text data without decompression.
method Introduces composer modules to encode symbols from grammar compression rules into vector representations.
result Demonstrates that the proposed method can achieve both memory and computational efficiency while maintaining moderate performance.

Model compression has been widely adopted to obtain light-weighted deep neural networks. Most prevalent methods, however, require fine-tuning with sufficient training data to ensure accuracy, which could be challenged by privacy and security issues. As a compromise between privacy and performance, in this paper we inve…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we present a novel approach for fine-tuning a decoder-side neural network in the context of image compression, such that the weight-updates are better compressible. At encoder side, we fine-tune a pre-trained artifact removal network on target data by using a compression objective applied on the weight-u…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

As the industry deploys increasingly large and complex neural networks to mobile devices, more pressure is put on the memory and compute resources of those devices. Deep compression, or compression of deep neural network weight matrices, is a technique to stretch resources for such scenarios. Existing compression metho…

2018-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

NAC-FL optimizes model updates in FL systems by adapting compression to network congestion.

problem Federated Learning systems face congestion and delays in data exchanges.
method NAC-FL dynamically adjusts client compression based on network congestion.
result NAC-FL reduces training time and achieves robust performance improvements.

Adjoined Networks trains both base and compressed networks together for efficient model compression.

problem Efficiently compressing deep neural networks while maintaining accuracy.
method Adjoined Networks (AN) trains both a base network and a smaller compressed network simultaneously, sharing parameters.
result AN achieves 71.8% top-1 accuracy with 1.8M parameters and 1.6 GFLOPs on ImageNet.

HOTCAKE compresses CNNs by decomposing kernels into smaller parts.

problem Compressing deep CNNs without significant accuracy loss.
method Input channel decomposition, guided Tucker rank selection, higher order Tucker decomposition, fine-tuning.
result HOTCAKE produces highly compressed CNN models with good accuracy.

Lossless compression of deep neural networks using NTK and RMT.

problem Compressing large-scale deep neural networks for low-power devices.
method High-dimensional neural tangent kernel approach.
result Asymptotic spectral equivalence between NTK matrices of wide DNNs enables lossless compression.

This paper studies how to compress neural networks while maintaining accuracy.

problem Compressing a two-layer neural network with fewer nodes without losing accuracy.
method Using tools from high-dimensional probability, the authors minimize the L_2 loss between the target and compressed networks.
result The error rate of the approximation is shown as a function of input dimension and network size in the mean-field limit.

This paper compresses neural networks by permuting and quantizing weights.

problem Efficiently compressing large neural networks for resource-constrained platforms.
method Permuting and quantizing weights, connecting to rate-distortion theory, and using annealed quantization.
result Significant compression with minimal accuracy loss, e.g., 40-70% reduction in gap with uncompressed model.

Paper proposes a compression principle for neural networks using Bayesian optimization.

problem Finding methods for making generalizable predictions in machine learning.
method Compression principle and Bayesian optimization approach.
result Optimal predictive models minimize total compressed message length of data and model definition.

This work compresses heavy-tailed weight matrices for tighter generalization bounds.

problem Empirical evidence linking heavy-tailed weight matrices to test set accuracy but lack of formal relationship with generalization bounds.
method Utilized the compression framework to show that heavy-tailed matrices can be compressed, resulting in sparse weight matrices.
result Demonstrated a non-vacuous generalization bound for compressed networks with heavy-tailed weight matrices.

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity explicitly in terms of its bit-size. Then, we formalize the problem of neural netwo…

2018-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we apply a compressibility loss that enables learning highly compressible neural network weights. The loss was previously proposed as a measure of negated sparsity of a signal, yet in this paper we show that minimizing this loss also enforces the non-zero parts of the signal to have very low entropy, thus…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new method for efficient data compression using Bayesian neural networks.

problem Efficient compression of data represented as functions mapping coordinates to signal values.
method Overfitting variational Bayesian neural networks to the data and compressing an approximate posterior weight sample using relative entropy coding.
result Our method achieves strong performance on image and audio compression while retaining simplicity.

This paper investigates compression techniques for deep neural networks to reduce their size without sacrificing performance.

problem Compression of large deep neural networks for resource-limited platforms.
method Weight pruning, quantization, and lossless weight matrix representations based on source coding.
result Achieved up to 165 times compression rate while maintaining or improving model performance.

This work optimizes DNN inference for energy-harvesting devices by compressing and selectively executing neural network exits.

problem Inference delays and energy inefficiency in energy-harvesting devices.
method Developed a power trace-aware and exit-guided network compression algorithm for multi-exit neural networks.
result Superior accuracy and reduced latency compared to state-of-the-art techniques.

Deep neural networks generalize well on unseen data though the number of parameters often far exceeds the number of training examples. Recently proposed complexity measures have provided insights to understanding the generalizability in neural networks from perspectives of PAC-Bayes, robustness, overparametrization, co…

2020-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This work analyzes how different forms of compressibility affect adversarial robustness in neural networks.

problem Understanding the interaction between compressibility and adversarial robustness in neural networks.
method Developed a principled framework to analyze the effects of neuron-level sparsity and spectral compressibility on adversarial robustness.
result Identified that different forms of compression can induce highly sensitive directions in the representation space that adversaries can exploit.

Dirichlet pruning compresses neural networks by removing unimportant units.

problem Compressing large neural network models without sacrificing performance.
method Assigns Dirichlet distribution over network layers' units and uses variational inference to estimate parameters.
result Achieves state-of-the-art compression performance on larger architectures like VGG and ResNet.