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With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…
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We present a filter pruning approach for deep model compression, using a multitask network. Our approach is based on learning a a pruner network to prune a pre-trained target network. The pruner is essentially a multitask deep neural…
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Batch normalization (BN) is a technique to normalize activations in intermediate layers of deep neural networks. Its tendency to improve accuracy and speed up training have established BN as a favorite technique in deep learning. Yet,…
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Batch Normalization (BN) is essential to effectively train state-of-the-art deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). It normalizes inputs to the layers during training using the statistics of each mini-batch. In this work, we study BN from…
Network-based transfer learning allows the reuse of deep learning features with limited data, but the resulting models can be unnecessarily large. Although network pruning can improve inference efficiency, existing algorithms usually…
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We propose a new formulation for pruning convolutional kernels in neural networks to enable efficient inference. We interleave greedy criteria-based pruning with fine-tuning by backpropagation - a computationally efficient procedure that…