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3 claims from 3 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

   Structured Pruning for Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks via Incremental Regularization

   Wang, Hu, Zhang, Wang, Yu and Hu · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · 2019

   The paper proposes IncReg, a pruning method that gradually raises regularisation on less important weights to shrink CNNs, and reports results comparable to or better than state-of-the-art methods.

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   1. UncheckedTests on popular CNNs with CIFAR-10 and ImageNet show IncReg pruning gives results comparable to, or better than, current leading methods.“Further extensive experiments with popular CNNs on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets show that IncReg achieves comparable to even better results compared with state-of-the-arts.”

3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   All-in-One Hardware-Oriented Model Compression for Efficient Multi-Hardware Deployment

   Wang, Ling, Fan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2024

   The paper proposes AHC, a framework combining structured and data pruning to produce many hardware-efficient neural network models cheaply, reporting lower pruning and fine-tuning costs at comparable performance.

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   1. UncheckedA method called progressive data pruning drops training samples that add little to a pruned model's accuracy, speeding up fine-tuning with negligible performance loss.“Moreover, AHC proposes a progressive data pruning (PDP), which gradually removes samples that have a negligible impact on enhancing the predictive ability of pruned models, thereby accelerating the fine-tuning process with negligible performance loss.”