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TOWARDS THINNER CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS THROUGH GRADUALLY GLOBAL PRUNING
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- Zhengtao Wang
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- 13 September 2017 - 12:37pm
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- Poster
- Document Year:
- 2017
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- Presenters:
- Zhengtao Wang
- Paper Code:
- ICIP1701
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Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularity, neuron level pruning will remove redundant neurons and filters in the model and result in thinner networks. In this paper, we propose a gradually global pruning scheme for neuron level pruning. In each pruning step, a small percent of neurons were selected and dropped across all layers in the model. We also propose a simple method to eliminate the biases in evaluating the importance of neurons to make the scheme feasible. Compared with layer-wise pruning scheme, our scheme avoid the difficulty in determining the redundancy in each layer and is more effective for deep networks. Our scheme would automatically find a thinner sub-network in original network under a given performance.