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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Learning Structured Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks

   Wen, Wu, Wang, Chen and Li · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

   The paper proposes Structured Sparsity Learning (SSL), which regularises the structure of deep neural networks to cut computation, speed up evaluation and, in some cases, improve classification accuracy.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper reports that its SSL method speeds up AlexNet's convolutional layers by on average 5.1x on CPU and 3.1x on GPU, using standard libraries.“Experimental results show that SSL achieves on average 5.1x and 3.1x speedups of convolutional layer computation of AlexNet against CPU and GPU, respectively, with off-the-shelf libraries.”
   2. UncheckedFor AlexNet, the paper reports that regularising the network's structure with SSL lowers its classification error by around 1%.“For AlexNet, structure regularization by SSL also reduces the error by around ~1%.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Only Train Once: A One-Shot Neural Network Training And Pruning Framework

   Chen, Bo, Ding et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper proposes Only-Train-Once (OTO), a framework that trains and prunes a neural network in one pass, without fine-tuning, giving slimmer models with competitive performance and fewer FLOPs.

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   1. UncheckedThe OTO method groups network parameters so zero groups can be pruned freely, and its HSPG optimiser finds more zero groups than standard proximal methods.“OTO contains two keys: (i) we partition the parameters of DNNs into zero-invariant groups, enabling us to prune zero groups without affecting the output; and (ii) to promote zero groups, we then formulate a structured-sparsity optimization problem and propose a novel optimization algorithm, Half-Sp…”
   2. UncheckedThe OTO method trains and compresses networks in one go, reporting state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks and competitive ones on ResNet50 for ImageNet.“To demonstrate the effectiveness of OTO, we train and compress full models simultaneously from scratch without fine-tuning for inference speedup and parameter reduction, and achieve state-of-the-art results on VGG16 for CIFAR10, ResNet50 for CIFAR10 and Bert for SQuAD and competitive result on ResN…”