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Keyword: computation cost reduction Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets

    Li, Kadav, Đurđanović, Samet and Graf · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

    The paper prunes whole filters from convolutional networks that have little effect on accuracy, cutting inference costs for VGG-16 and ResNet-110 on CIFAR10 while retraining to regain close to the original accuracy.

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    1. UncheckedRemoving whole filters from a convolutional network, unlike pruning individual weights, does not leave irregular, sparse connections in the network.“In contrast to pruning weights, this approach does not result in sparse connectivity patterns.”
    2. UncheckedSimple filter pruning cut inference costs by up to 34% for VGG-16 and 38% for ResNet-110 on CIFAR10, with retraining restoring near-original accuracy.“We show that even simple filter pruning techniques can reduce inference costs for VGG-16 by up to 34% and ResNet-110 by up to 38% on CIFAR10 while regaining close to the original accuracy by retraining the networks.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Learning Versatile Convolution Filters for Efficient Visual Recognition

    Han, Wang, Xu, Xu, Wu and Tao · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    The paper introduces versatile filters, in which several secondary filters are derived from one primary filter using binary masks, to build more efficient convolutional neural networks for visual recognition.

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    1. UncheckedVersatile filters reach accuracy comparable to standard convolution filters on benchmark datasets and networks, while using less memory and computation.“Experimental results on benchmark datasets and neural networks demonstrate that our versatile filters are able to achieve comparable accuracy as that of original filters, but require less memory and computation cost.”

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