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Learning Filter Pruning Criteria for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration

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He, Yang, Ding, Yuhang, Liu, Ping, Zhu, Linchao, Zhang, Hanwang, Yang, Yi·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Filter pruning has been widely applied to neural network compression and acceleration. Existing methods usually utilize pre-defined pruning criteria, such as Lp-norm, to prune unimportant filters. There are two major limitations to these methods. First, existing methods fail to consider the variety of filter distribution across layers. To extract features of the coarse level to the fine level, the filters of different layers have various distributions. Therefore, it is not suitable to utilize the same pruning criteria to different functional layers. Second, prevailing layer-by-layer pruning methods process each layer independently and sequentially, failing to consider that all the layers in the network collaboratively make the final prediction. In this paper, we propose Learning Filter Pruning Criteria (LFPC) to solve the above problems. Specifically, we develop a differentiable pruning criteria sampler. This sampler is learnable and optimized by the validation loss of the pruned network obtained from the sampled criteria. In this way, we could adaptively select the appropriate pruning criteria for different functional layers. Besides, when evaluating the sampled criteria, LFPC comprehensively consider the contribution of all the layers at the same time. Experiments validate our approach on three image classification benchmarks. Notably, on ILSVRC-2012, our LFPC reduces more than 60% FLOPs on ResNet-50 with only 0.83% top-5 accuracy loss.

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Authors
He, Y., Ding, Y., Liu, P., Zhu, L., Zhang, H., & Yang, Y.
Affiliations
  • University of Technology Sydney (AU)
  • Baidu (China) (CN)
  • Nanyang Technological University (SG)
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
2006-2015
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3035467254
Cited by
262
References
64
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 9
FWCI
13.50
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
filter pruning, neural network compression, deep convolutional neural networks, layer-wise pruning, model acceleration, FLOPs reduction, image classification, ResNet50

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