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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding

   Han, Mao and Dally · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

   The paper introduces 'deep compression', a three-stage pipeline of pruning, trained quantization and Huffman coding that cuts neural network storage by 35x to 49x without affecting accuracy.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report shrinking the VGG-16 image-recognition network 49-fold, from 552MB to 11.3MB, with no loss of accuracy on ImageNet.“Our method reduced the size of VGG-16 by 49x from 552MB to 11.3MB, again with no loss of accuracy.”
   2. UncheckedCompressed networks ran 3x to 4x faster layer by layer and used 3x to 7x less energy on a CPU, a GPU and a mobile GPU, the paper reports.“Benchmarked on CPU, GPU and mobile GPU, compressed network has 3x to 4x layerwise speedup and 3x to 7x better energy efficiency.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   CLIP-Q: Deep Network Compression Learning by In-parallel Pruning-Quantization

   Tung and Mori · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

   The paper presents CLIP-Q, which prunes and quantizes a network's weights jointly while fine-tuning, compressing AlexNet 51-fold, GoogLeNet 10-fold and ResNet-50 15-fold without losing ImageNet accuracy.

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   1. UncheckedDoing pruning and quantization together, alongside fine-tuning, lets a network use both and recover from early pruning errors, which two-stage approaches cannot.“This allows us to take advantage of the complementary nature of pruning and quantization and to recover from premature pruning errors, which is not possible with current two-stage approaches.”