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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Pruning via Iterative Ranking of Sensitivity Statistics

   Verdenius, Stol and Forré · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

   The paper introduces SNIP-it, which prunes iteratively using SNIP's sensitivity criterion, for structured and unstructured pruning, and reports state-of-the-art sparsity-performance trade-offs.

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   1. UncheckedApplying SNIP's sensitivity criterion repeatedly in smaller steps, still before training, can improve pruning performance without a hard implementation.“However, in this work we show that by applying the sensitivity criterion iteratively in smaller steps - still before training - we can improve its performance without difficult implementation.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Compact Neural Network via Stacking Hybrid Units

   Lan, Cheung, Jiang, Hu and Li · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

   The paper presents BUnit-Net, which builds compact neural networks by stacking basic units, and reports comparable accuracy to pruning methods while saving around 80% of FLOPs and 73% of parameters.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says BUnit-Net can match the compression of unstructured pruning while keeping its weight tensors regular and dense.“In this way, BUnit-Net can achieve the same compression effect as unstructured pruning while the weight tensors can still remain regular and dense.”
   2. UncheckedBUnit-Net is reported to match comparable classification accuracy while using about 80% fewer FLOPs and 73% fewer parameters.“Experiment results show that BUnit-Net can achieve comparable classification accuracy while saving around 80% FLOPs and 73% parameters.”