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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

   Wang, Zhang and Grosse · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

   The paper proposes GraSP, a way to prune neural networks at initialisation by preserving gradient flow, and tests it on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet and ImageNet with VGGNet and ResNet.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors' method can remove 80% of a VGG-16 network's weights before training on ImageNet, with only a 1.6% fall in top-1 accuracy.“Our method can prune 80% of the weights of a VGG-16 network on ImageNet at initialization, with only a 1.6% drop in top-1 accuracy.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' GraSP pruning method is reported to beat the baseline by a clear margin when very large fractions of a network's weights are removed.“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Structured Pruning for Efficient ConvNets via Incremental Regularization

   Wang, Zhang, Wang, Yu and Hu · 2019

   The paper proposes IncReg, a pruning method that gradually raises regularisation on weights by relative importance, to compress and speed up convolutional neural networks with tolerable performance loss.

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   1. UncheckedIn experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet with popular CNNs, the IncReg pruning method matches or beats current state-of-the-art pruning 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.”