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Keyword: network pruning Clear all

6 claims from 4 papers

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning

    Liu, Sun, Zhou, Huang and Darrell · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

    The paper tests common pruning pipelines and reports that training the pruned architecture from scratch matches or beats fine-tuning, suggesting the architecture matters more than inherited weights.

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    1. UncheckedIn the structured pruning methods examined, fine-tuning a pruned network performed no better than training the same small network from random starting weights.“For all state-of-the-art structured pruning algorithms we examined, fine-tuning a pruned model only gives comparable or worse performance than training that model with randomly initialized weights.”

  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Discrimination-aware Network Pruning for Deep Model Compression

    Liu, Zhuang, Zhuang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

    The paper proposes discrimination-aware channel and kernel pruning to make deep networks smaller and faster, and reports tests on image classification and face recognition.

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    1. UncheckedOn ILSVRC-12, a ResNet-50 pruned to cut 30% of channels scored 0.36% higher Top-1 accuracy than its unpruned baseline.“For example, on ILSVRC-12, the resultant ResNet-50 model with 30% reduction of channels even outperforms the baseline model by 0.36% in terms of Top-1 accuracy.”
    2. UncheckedAfter pruning with the authors' method, MobileNetV1 and MobileNetV2 run 1.93x and 1.42x faster on a mobile device with negligible loss in performance.“The pruned MobileNetV1 and MobileNetV2 achieve 1.93x and 1.42x inference acceleration on a mobile device, respectively, with negligible performance degradation.”

  3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

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

    The paper proposes GraSP, a way to prune neural networks at initialisation by preserving gradient flow, and tests it on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet and ImageNet with VGGNet and ResNet.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors' method can remove 80% of a VGG-16 network's weights before training on ImageNet, with only a 1.6% fall in top-1 accuracy.“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. UncheckedThe authors' GraSP pruning method is reported to beat the baseline by a clear margin when very large fractions of a network's weights are removed.“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”

  4. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

    Quarantine: Sparsity Can Uncover the Trojan Attack Trigger for Free

    Chen, Zhang, Zhang, Chang, Liu and Wang · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    The paper uses sparsity and the lottery ticket hypothesis to detect Trojan-poisoned neural networks, isolating a sparse subnetwork that carries the trigger and then recovering the trigger from it.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper observes that features tied to a Trojan trigger hold up much better under network pruning than normal (benign) features do.“Our crucial observation is that the Trojan features are significantly more stable to network pruning than benign features.”

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