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7 claims from 4 papers

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding

    Han, Mao and Dally · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

    The paper introduces 'deep compression', a three-stage pipeline of pruning, trained quantization and Huffman coding that cuts neural network storage by 35x to 49x without affecting accuracy.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors report shrinking the VGG-16 image-recognition network 49-fold, from 552MB to 11.3MB, with no loss of accuracy on ImageNet.“Our method reduced the size of VGG-16 by 49x from 552MB to 11.3MB, again with no loss of accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Benchmarked on CPU, GPU and mobile GPU, compressed network has 3x to 4x layerwise speedup and 3x to 7x better energy efficiency.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    EIE

    Han, Liu, Mao et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 2016

    The authors propose EIE, a custom hardware engine that runs compressed neural networks directly, and report it is faster and far more energy efficient than CPU, GPU and DaDianNao comparisons.

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    1. UncheckedThe EIE chip's energy savings come from four sources: moving weights from DRAM to SRAM (120×), sparsity (10×), weight sharing (8×) and skipping zero activations (3×).“Going from DRAM to SRAM gives EIE 120× energy saving; Exploiting sparsity saves 10×; Weight sharing gives 8×; Skipping zero activations from ReLU saves another 3×.”
    2. UncheckedThe paper reports that its EIE chip beats the DaDianNao accelerator by 2.9× in throughput, 19× in energy efficiency and 3× in area efficiency.“Compared with DaDianNao, EIE has 2.9×, 19× and 3× better throughput, energy efficiency and area efficiency.”
  3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks

    Rastegari, Ordóñez, Redmon and Farhadi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“This results in 58x faster convolutional operations and 32x memory savings.”
    2. Unchecked“We compare our method with recent network binarization methods, BinaryConnect and BinaryNets, and outperform these methods by large margins on ImageNet, more than 16% in top-1 accuracy.”
  4. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Towards compressed and efficient CNN architectures via pruning

    Narkhede, Mahajan, Bartakke and Sutaone · Discover Computing · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“For Intel image, CIFAR10 and CIFAR100 datasets the proposed pruning method has compressed AlexNet by 83.2%, 87.19%, and 79.7%, VGG-16 by 83.7%, 85.11%, and 84.06% and ResNet-50 by 62.99%, 62.3% and 58.34% respectively.”

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