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A Survey on Acceleration of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
3 points by Katydid on Feb 10, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: This survey reviews ways to shrink and speed up image-recognizing networks so they run on phones and small devices: cutting unneeded connections, using smaller numbers, teaching a small net from a big one, and custom chips. It compares these tricks and sketches future directions.

Abstract · Recent Advances in Efficient Computation of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Deep neural networks have evolved remarkably over the past few years and they are currently the fundamental tools of many intelligent systems. At the same time, the computational complexity and resource consumption of these networks also continue to increase. This will pose a significant challenge to the deployment of such networks, especially in real-time applications or on resource-limited devices. Thus, network acceleration has become a hot topic within the deep learning community. As for hardware implementation of deep neural networks, a batch of accelerators based on FPGA/ASIC have been proposed in recent years. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of recent advances in network acceleration, compression and accelerator design from both algorithm and hardware points of view. Specifically, we provide a thorough analysis of each of the following topics: network pruning, low-rank approximation, network quantization, teacher-student networks, compact network design and hardware accelerators. Finally, we will introduce and discuss a few possible future directions.

Jian Cheng, Peisong Wang, Gang Li, Qinghao Hu, Hanqing Lu
arXiv:1802.00939 · cs.CV · submitted Feb 3, 2018 · updated Feb 11, 2018
abstract · pdf · html · 14 pages, 3 figures

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