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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Sparse Networks from Scratch: Faster Training without Losing Performance

   Dettmers and Zettlemoyer · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper presents sparse momentum, a method that keeps neural network weights sparse throughout training while matching dense performance levels and training up to 5.61 times faster.

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   1. UncheckedSparse momentum is reported to give state-of-the-art sparse-network results on MNIST, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, with 8%, 15% and 6% lower relative mean error.“We demonstrate state-of-the-art sparse performance on MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet, decreasing the mean error by a relative 8%, 15%, and 6% compared to other sparse algorithms.”
   2. UncheckedAblation tests in the paper suggest that momentum-based redistribution and growth of weights help more as a network gets deeper and larger.“In our analysis, ablations show that the benefits of momentum redistribution and growth increase with the depth and size of the network.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Deep Neural Network Compression by In-Parallel Pruning-Quantization

   Tung and Mori · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

   The paper proposes CLIP-Q, a method that prunes and quantizes a neural network's weights together while fine-tuning it, and reports better compression results on several standard image networks.

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   1. UncheckedOn ImageNet, the CLIP-Q method is reported to improve on the state of the art in compressing AlexNet, VGGNet, GoogLeNet and ResNet.“In experiments on ImageNet, CLIP-Q (Compression Learning by In-Parallel Pruning-Quantization) improves the state-of-the-art in network compression on AlexNet, VGGNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet.”

3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   End-to-End Supermask Pruning: Learning to Prune Image Captioning Models

   Tan, Chan and Chuah · Pattern Recognition · 2021

   The paper compares weight pruning methods on three image captioning models, proposes a new end-to-end pruning method, and reports that heavily pruned networks can match or outperform dense ones.

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   1. UncheckedImage captioning networks with 80% to 95% of weights removed (up to 75% smaller) can match or beat their full-size versions, the paper reports.“Empirically, we show that an 80% to 95% sparse network (up to 75% reduction in model size) can either match or outperform its dense counterpart.”