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Seesaw-Net: Convolution Neural Network With Uneven Group Convolution

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-12-03 v5

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in boosting the representation capability of convolution neural networks which utilizing the inverted residual structure. Based on the success of Inverted Residual structure[Sandler et al. 2018] and Interleaved Low-Rank Group Convolutions[Sun et al. 2018], we rethink this two pattern of neural network structure, rather than NAS(Neural architecture search) method[Zoph and Le 2017; Pham et al. 2018; Liu et al. 2018b], we introduce uneven point-wise group convolution, which provide a novel search space for designing basic blocks to obtain better trade-off between representation capability and computational cost. Meanwhile, we propose two novel information flow patterns that will enable cross-group information flow for multiple group convolution layers with and without any channel permute/shuffle operation. Dense experiments on image classification task show that our proposed model, named Seesaw-Net, achieves state-of-the-art(SOTA) performance with limited computation and memory cost. Our code will be open-source and available together with pre-trained models.

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@article{arxiv.1905.03672,
  title  = {Seesaw-Net: Convolution Neural Network With Uneven Group Convolution},
  author = {Jintao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03672},
  year   = {2019}
}
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