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Soft Conditional Computation (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Instead of one fixed set of filters for every picture, this design learns several specialized filters and blends them per input, letting networks grow without slowing down. On EfficientNet-B0 it reached 78.3% ImageNet accuracy at 413 million multiply-adds, beating standard filters on accuracy per cost.

Abstract · CondConv: Conditionally Parameterized Convolutions for Efficient Inference

Convolutional layers are one of the basic building blocks of modern deep neural networks. One fundamental assumption is that convolutional kernels should be shared for all examples in a dataset. We propose conditionally parameterized convolutions (CondConv), which learn specialized convolutional kernels for each example. Replacing normal convolutions with CondConv enables us to increase the size and capacity of a network, while maintaining efficient inference. We demonstrate that scaling networks with CondConv improves the performance and inference cost trade-off of several existing convolutional neural network architectures on both classification and detection tasks. On ImageNet classification, our CondConv approach applied to EfficientNet-B0 achieves state-of-the-art performance of 78.3% accuracy with only 413M multiply-adds. Code and checkpoints for the CondConv Tensorflow layer and CondConv-EfficientNet models are available at: https://github.com/tensorflow/tpu/tree/master/models/official/efficientnet/condconv.

Brandon Yang, Gabriel Bender, Quoc V. Le, Jiquan Ngiam
arXiv:1904.04971 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Apr 10, 2019 · updated Sep 4, 2020
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