Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

He, Yihui; Zhang, Xiangyu; Sun, Jian

doi:10.1109/iccv.2017.155

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“…They visualize the feature maps extracted by different filters and view each filter as a visual unit focusing on different visual components.of the ResNet-50 [28], and meanwhile save more than 75% of parameters and 50% computational time. In the literature, approaches for compressing the deep networks can be classified into five categories: parameter pruning [26,29,30,31], parameter quantizing [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41], low-rank parameter factorization [42,43,44,45,46], transferred/compact convolutional filters [47,48,49,50], and knowledge distillation [51,52,53,54,55,56]. The parameter pruning and quantizing mainly focus on eliminating the redundancy in the model parameters respectively by removing the redundant/uncritical ones or compressing the parameter space (e.g.…”

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Binary neural networks: A survey

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The binary neural network, largely saving the storage and computation, serves as a promising technique for deploying deep models on resource-limited devices.However, the binarization inevitably causes severe information loss, and even worse, its discontinuity brings difficulty to the optimization of the deep network.To address these issues, a variety of algorithms have been proposed, and achieved satisfying progress in recent years. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of these algorithms, mainly categorized into the native solutions directly conducting binarization, and the optimized ones using techniques like minimizing the quantization error, improving the network loss function, and reducing the gradient error. We also investigate other practical aspects of binary neural networks such as the hardware-friendly design and the training tricks. Then, we give the evaluation and discussions on different tasks, including image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. Finally, the challenges that may be faced in future research are prospected.the heavy computation and storage still inevitably limit the applications of the deep CNNs in practice. Besides, due to the huge model parameter space, the prediction of the neural networks is usually viewed as a black-box, which brings great challenges to the interpretability of CNNs. Some works like [21,22,23] empirically explore the function of each layer in the network. They visualize the feature maps extracted by different filters and view each filter as a visual unit focusing on different visual components.of the ResNet-50 [28], and meanwhile save more than 75% of parameters and 50% computational time. In the literature, approaches for compressing the deep networks can be classified into five categories: parameter pruning [26,29,30,31], parameter quantizing [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41], low-rank parameter factorization [42,43,44,45,46], transferred/compact convolutional filters [47,48,49,50], and knowledge distillation [51,52,53,54,55,56]. The parameter pruning and quantizing mainly focus on eliminating the redundancy in the model parameters respectively by removing the redundant/uncritical ones or compressing the parameter space (e.g. , from the floating-point weights to the integer ones). Low-rank factorization applies the matrix/tensor decomposition techniques to estimate the informative parameters using the proxy ones of small size. The compact convolutional filter based approaches rely on the carefullydesigned structural convolutional filters to reduce the storage and computation complexity. The knowledge distillation methods try to distill a more compact model to reproduce the output of a larger network.Among the existing network compression techniques, quantization based one serves as a promising and fast solution that yields highly compact models compared to their floating-point counterparts, by representing the network weights with very low precision. Along this direction, the most extreme quantization is binarization, the interest...

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Binary neural networks: A survey

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“…iii) Knowledge distillation with mask guided [7]. iv) Channel pruning with LASSO-based channel selection [4,23]. Fig.…”

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Selective Convolutional Network: An Efficient Object Detector with Ignoring Background

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ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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It is well known that attention mechanisms can effectively improve the performance of many CNNs including object detectors. Instead of refining feature maps prevalently, we reduce the prohibitive computational complexity by a novel attempt at attention. Therefore, we introduce an efficient object detector called Selective Convolutional Network (SCN), which selectively calculates only on the locations that contain meaningful and conducive information. The basic idea is to exclude the insignificant background areas, which effectively reduces the computational cost especially during the feature extraction. To solve it, we design an elaborate structure with negligible overheads to guide the network where to look next. It's end-to-end trainable and easy-embedding. Without additional segmentation datasets, we explores two different train strategies including direct supervision and indirect supervision. Extensive experiments assess the performance on PASCAL VOC2007 and MS COCO detection datasets. Results show that SSD and Pelee integrated with our method averagely reduce the calculations in a range of 1/5 and 1/3 with slight loss of accuracy, demonstrating the feasibility of SCN.

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“…the most crucial strategy. As for the network compression problem, the typical solutions are designed to slim [27,37] the network directly, or quantify their parameters distributions [14,16,25], and filter the redundant layer dimensions [9,21]. In contrast to these techniques which aim at directly compressing the network while preserving its performance as much as possible, an alternative solution is to preset a smaller target network as the student, and employ the knowledge from the larger network as teacher to improve student's performance.…”

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Knowledge Representing: Efficient, Sparse Representation of Prior Knowledge for Knowledge Distillation

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2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)

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Despite the recent works on knowledge distillation (KD) have achieved a further improvement through elaborately modeling the decision boundary as the posterior knowledge, their performance is still dependent on the hypothesis that the target network has a powerful capacity (representation ability). In this paper, we propose a knowledge representing (KR) framework mainly focusing on modeling the parameters distribution as prior knowledge. Firstly, we suggest a knowledge aggregation scheme in order to answer how to represent the prior knowledge from teacher network. Through aggregating the parameters distribution from teacher network into more abstract level, the scheme is able to alleviate the phenomenon of residual accumulation in the deeper layers. Secondly, as the critical issue of what the most important prior knowledge is for better distilling, we design a sparse recoding penalty for constraining the student network to learn with the penalized gradients. With the proposed penalty, the student network can effectively avoid the over-regularization during knowledge distilling and converge faster. The quantitative experiments exhibit that the proposed framework achieves the state-ofthe-arts performance, even though the target network does not have the expected capacity. Moreover, the framework is flexible enough for combining with other KD methods based on the posterior knowledge.

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Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

Cited by 2,232 publications

References 56 publications

Binary neural networks: A survey

Binary neural networks: A survey

Selective Convolutional Network: An Efficient Object Detector with Ignoring Background

Knowledge Representing: Efficient, Sparse Representation of Prior Knowledge for Knowledge Distillation

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