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3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Exploiting Channel Similarity for Network Pruning

    Zhao, Zhang and Ni · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2023

    The paper proposes pruning pre-trained convolutional networks by clustering similar channels, and reports gains in the trade-off between speed and accuracy on benchmarks, including ImageNet and a GAN-based model.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors argue that CNN channels carrying similar feature information overlap in function, so each such group can be cut to a few members with little loss of power.“Precisely, we argue that channels revealing similar feature information have functional overlap and that each such similarity group can be reduced to a few representatives with little impact on the representational power of the model.”
    2. UncheckedOn ImageNet, a ResNet-50 pruned by the authors' method to cut 30% of its FLOPs is reported to outperform the original unpruned model.“On ImageNet, our pruned ResNet-50 with 30% FLOPs reduced outperforms the original model.”
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Debt and growth: A non-parametric approach

    Brida, Gómez and Seijas · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · 2017

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    1. UncheckedGrouping countries by their economic dynamics yields high, mid and low indebted clubs, which the authors say suggests a debt-to-GDP threshold shapes those dynamics.“During this period, three groups (clubs) of countries are obtained: high, mid and low indebted countries, suggesting that the employed debt-to-GDP threshold drives economic dynamics for the selected countries.”

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