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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   DSOD: Learning Deeply Supervised Object Detectors from Scratch

   Shen, Liu, Li, Jiang, Chen and Xue · IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

   The paper presents DSOD, a framework for training object detectors from scratch, reporting better results than state-of-the-art methods on three benchmarks with much more compact models.

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   1. UncheckedThe DSOD paper reports that deep supervision, enabled by dense layer-wise connections, plays a critical role in learning a good object detector from scratch.“One of the key findings is that deep supervision, enabled by dense layer-wise connections, plays a critical role in learning a good detector.”
   2. UncheckedDSOD is reported to beat SSD on three benchmarks at real-time speed, using about half SSD's parameters and a tenth of Faster RCNN's.“For instance, DSOD outperforms SSD on all three benchmarks with real-time detection speed, while requires only 1/2 parameters to SSD and 1/10 parameters to Faster RCNN.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Soft Filter Pruning for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

   He, Kang, Dong, Fu and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

   The paper proposes Soft Filter Pruning, which lets pruned filters keep being updated during training, to speed up CNN inference and can be trained from scratch.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report that their soft filter pruning method, trained from scratch, outperforms earlier filter pruning methods.“Empirically, SFP from scratch outperforms the previous filter pruning methods.”
   2. UncheckedOn ImageNet (ILSVRC-2012), soft filter pruning cuts over 42% of ResNet-101's FLOPs while top-5 accuracy rises by 0.2%, per the authors.“Notably, on ILSCRC-2012, SFP reduces more than 42% FLOPs on ResNet-101 with even 0.2% top-5 accuracy improvement, which has advanced the state-of-the-art.”