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EfficientRep:An Efficient Repvgg-style ConvNets with Hardware-aware Neural Network Design

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-02-02 v1

Abstract

We present a hardware-efficient architecture of convolutional neural network, which has a repvgg-like architecture. Flops or parameters are traditional metrics to evaluate the efficiency of networks which are not sensitive to hardware including computing ability and memory bandwidth. Thus, how to design a neural network to efficiently use the computing ability and memory bandwidth of hardware is a critical problem. This paper proposes a method how to design hardware-aware neural network. Based on this method, we designed EfficientRep series convolutional networks, which are high-computation hardware(e.g. GPU) friendly and applied in YOLOv6 object detection framework. YOLOv6 has published YOLOv6N/YOLOv6S/YOLOv6M/YOLOv6L models in v1 and v2 versions.

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@article{arxiv.2302.00386,
  title  = {EfficientRep:An Efficient Repvgg-style ConvNets with Hardware-aware Neural Network Design},
  author = {Kaiheng Weng and Xiangxiang Chu and Xiaoming Xu and Junshi Huang and Xiaoming Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00386},
  year   = {2023}
}
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