1. Differentiable Transportation Pruning
- Author
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Li, Yunqiang, van Gemert, Jan C., Hoefler, Torsten, Moons, Bert, Eleftheriou, Evangelos, and Verhoef, Bram-Ernst
- Subjects
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Abstract
Deep learning algorithms are increasingly employed at the edge. However, edge devices are resource constrained and thus require efficient deployment of deep neural networks. Pruning methods are a key tool for edge deployment as they can improve storage, compute, memory bandwidth, and energy usage. In this paper we propose a novel accurate pruning technique that allows precise control over the output network size. Our method uses an efficient optimal transportation scheme which we make end-to-end differentiable and which automatically tunes the exploration-exploitation behavior of the algorithm to find accurate sparse sub-networks. We show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to previous pruning methods on 3 different datasets, using 5 different models, across a wide range of pruning ratios, and with two types of sparsity budgets and pruning granularities., Comment: ICCV 2023
- Published
- 2023