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Fixed-point Factorized Networks

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017-08-30 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) based methods have achieved remarkable performance in a wide range of tasks and have been among the most powerful and widely used techniques in computer vision. However, DNN-based methods are both computational-intensive and resource-consuming, which hinders the application of these methods on embedded systems like smart phones. To alleviate this problem, we introduce a novel Fixed-point Factorized Networks (FFN) for pretrained models to reduce the computational complexity as well as the storage requirement of networks. The resulting networks have only weights of -1, 0 and 1, which significantly eliminates the most resource-consuming multiply-accumulate operations (MACs). Extensive experiments on large-scale ImageNet classification task show the proposed FFN only requires one-thousandth of multiply operations with comparable accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01972,
  title  = {Fixed-point Factorized Networks},
  author = {Peisong Wang and Jian Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01972},
  year   = {2017}
}
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