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3 claims from 1 paper

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Carrying out CNN Channel Pruning in a White Box

    Zhang, Lin, Lin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

    The paper prunes CNN channels using interpretability: it learns class-wise masks, votes to remove channels that discriminate few categories, then fine-tunes, cutting computation with small accuracy changes.

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    1. UncheckedVisualising feature maps suggests that different channels in a CNN contribute by different amounts to different image categories.“Through deep visualization of feature maps activated by different channels, we observe that different channels have a varying contribution to different categories in image classification.”
    2. UncheckedOn CIFAR-10, the White-Box pruning method cuts 65.23% of ResNet-110's FLOPs while accuracy rises by 0.62%, as the paper reports.“For instance, on CIFAR-10, it reduces 65.23% FLOPs with even 0.62% accuracy improvement for ResNet-110.”
    3. UncheckedOn ILSVRC-2012, the White-Box pruning method cuts ResNet-50's computation by 45.6% while losing 0.83% of top-1 accuracy.“On ILSVRC-2012, White-Box achieves a 45.6% FLOPs reduction with only a small loss of 0.83% in the top-1 accuracy for ResNet-50.”

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