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48 results for neural compression

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.

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.

Neural NCD reveals LLMs don't compress well for classification.

problem The disconnect between compression and classification in neural networks.
method Developed Neural NCD to compare LLMs to classic algorithms, finding classification accuracy not correlated with compression rate.
result Classification accuracy is not predictable by compression rate alone, challenging current understanding.

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%.

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.

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.

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 ↗

Image compression using neural networks have reached or exceeded non-neural methods (such as JPEG, WebP, BPG). While these networks are state of the art in ratedistortion performance, computational feasibility of these models remains a challenge. We apply automatic network optimization techniques to reduce the computat…

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

C3 compresses images and videos with low complexity and high performance.

problem High complexity and low performance in neural compression models.
method Overfits a small model to each image or video separately, improving RD performance with low complexity.
result Matches the RD performance of state-of-the-art neural and video codecs with significantly lower decoding complexity.

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.

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.

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.

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 ↗

Improved neural image compression with refined latent representations.

problem Sub-optimal results from variational autoencoders due to imperfect optimization and capacity limitations.
method Stochastic Gumbel Annealing (SGA) and its extensions (SGA+), including three different methods.
result Significant improvement in compression performance, especially on the R-D trade-off.

Modality-agnostic compression improves across diverse data types.

problem Efficiently compressing data across multiple modalities.
method Functional view of data, Implicit Neural Representation (INR), modality-agnostic latent representations, variational compression.
result Improved performance compared to existing methods, especially for diverse modalities.

This work proves that large models can be compressed significantly without losing performance.

problem Achieving comparable performance with smaller models and less data.
method Developed a universal compression theory for neural networks and datasets.
result Proved that a generic permutation-invariant function can be compressed into a function of polylogarithmic size with vanishing error.

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.

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.

Bayesian neural networks are compressed using feature and weight pruning based on posterior inclusion probabilities.

problem Efficiently compressing Bayesian neural networks to reduce computation cost and improve generalizability.
method Bayesian model selection principles are applied to obtain posterior inclusion probabilities for pruning and feature selection.
result Pruned models show better generalizability on simulated and real-world data.

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 ↗

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.

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.

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.

Study on reducing forgetting in neural networks using compression theory.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
method Defined forgetting as increased description lengths, compared variational posterior approaches to prequential coding methods.
result Proposed a new continual learning method combining ML plug-in and Bayesian mixture codes.

Extractive compression is a challenging natural language processing problem. This work contributes by formulating neural extractive compression as a parse tree transduction problem, rather than a sequence transduction task. Motivated by this, we introduce a deep neural model for learning structure-to-substructure tree …

2018-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗