In plain words: It splits the network's channels into small groups for cheaper calculations, then swaps channels between groups so the groups can still share information. On image classification at the same 40-million-operation budget, it cut top-1 error by 7.8 percentage points versus MobileNet.
Abstract · ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices
We introduce an extremely computation-efficient CNN architecture named ShuffleNet, which is designed specially for mobile devices with very limited computing power (e.g., 10-150 MFLOPs). The new architecture utilizes two new operations, pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle, to greatly reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy. Experiments on ImageNet classification and MS COCO object detection demonstrate the superior performance of ShuffleNet over other structures, e.g. lower top-1 error (absolute 7.8%) than recent MobileNet on ImageNet classification task, under the computation budget of 40 MFLOPs. On an ARM-based mobile device, ShuffleNet achieves ~13x actual speedup over AlexNet while maintaining comparable accuracy.
Xiangyu Zhang, Xinyu Zhou, Mengxiao Lin, Jian Sun
arXiv:1707.01083 · cs.CV · submitted Jul 4, 2017 · updated Dec 7, 2017
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