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Keyword: neural network pruning ×Clear all

4 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Optimal Brain Damage

   LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

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   1. Unchecked“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource Efficient Inference

   Molchanov, Tyree, Karras, Aila and Kautz · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“The proposed criterion demonstrates superior performance compared to other criteria, e.g. the norm of kernel weights or feature map activation, for pruning large CNNs after adaptation to fine-grained classification tasks (Birds-200 and Flowers-102) relaying…

3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

   Frankle and Carbin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“Based on these results, we articulate the "lottery ticket hypothesis:" dense, randomly-initialized, feed-forward networks contain subnetworks ("winning tickets") that - when trained in isolation - reach test accuracy comparable to the original network in a s…