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6 claims from 3 papers

  1. 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.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

    Wang, Zhang and Grosse · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our method can prune 80% of the weights of a VGG-16 network on ImageNet at initialization, with only a 1.6% drop in top-1 accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”
  3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    GAT TransPruning: progressive channel pruning strategy combining graph attention network and transformer

    Lin, Wang and Lin · PeerJ Computer Science · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The experimental results reveal that the accuracy rate only drops by 6.58% when the channel pruning rate is 89% for VGG-19/CIFAR-100.”
    2. Unchecked“In addition, the lightweight model inference speed is 9.10 times faster than that of the original large model.”

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