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Extremely Low Bit Neural Network: Squeeze the Last Bit Out with ADMM (arxiv.org)
2 points by Katydid on Aug 7, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Deep networks shrink by storing each weight in a few bits; a splitting trick separates the free weights from the bit limit and solves the easier pieces in turn. On image tasks it beat the best earlier compression methods at very low bit counts.

Abstract

Although deep learning models are highly effective for various learning tasks, their high computational costs prohibit the deployment to scenarios where either memory or computational resources are limited. In this paper, we focus on compressing and accelerating deep models with network weights represented by very small numbers of bits, referred to as extremely low bit neural network. We model this problem as a discretely constrained optimization problem. Borrowing the idea from Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM), we decouple the continuous parameters from the discrete constraints of network, and cast the original hard problem into several subproblems. We propose to solve these subproblems using extragradient and iterative quantization algorithms that lead to considerably faster convergency compared to conventional optimization methods. Extensive experiments on image recognition and object detection verify that the proposed algorithm is more effective than state-of-the-art approaches when coming to extremely low bit neural network.

Cong Leng, Hao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Rong Jin
arXiv:1707.09870 · cs.CV · submitted Jul 24, 2017 · updated Sep 13, 2017
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