We propose a lightweight CPU network based on the MKLDNN acceleration strategy, named PP-LCNet, which improves the performance of lightweight models on multiple tasks. This paper lists technologies which can improve network accuracy while the latency is almost constant. With these improvements, the accuracy of PP-LCNet can greatly surpass the previous network structure with the same inference time for classification. As shown in Figure 1, it outperforms the most state-of-the-art models. And for downstream tasks of computer vision, it also performs very well, such as object detection, semantic segmentation, etc. All our experiments are implemented based on PaddlePaddle. Code and pretrained models are available at PaddleClas.
@article{arxiv.2109.15099,
title = {PP-LCNet: A Lightweight CPU Convolutional Neural Network},
author = {Cheng Cui and Tingquan Gao and Shengyu Wei and Yuning Du and Ruoyu Guo and Shuilong Dong and Bin Lu and Ying Zhou and Xueying Lv and Qiwen Liu and Xiaoguang Hu and Dianhai Yu and Yanjun Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.15099},
year = {2021}
}