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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Compressing Neural Networks with the Hashing Trick

   Chen, T., Tyree, Weinberger and Chen · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

   The paper presents HashedNets, a network design that uses a hash function to make groups of connections share one value, aiming to shrink models so they fit on memory-limited mobile devices.

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   1. UncheckedHashedNets, which make connections share weights via a hash function, cut neural network storage a lot while mostly keeping generalisation performance on benchmarks.“Our hashing procedure introduces no additional memory overhead, and we demonstrate on several benchmark data sets that HashedNets shrink the storage requirements of neural networks substantially while mostly preserving generalization performance.”

2. 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.”