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An Efficient Training Approach for Large Scale Face Recognition (arxiv.org)
1 point by blopeur on May 31, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Training face recognition normally uses a giant output layer with one slot per person, which is slow and memory-hungry. Replacing it with a small, constantly refreshed pool of identity features kept accuracy about the same while training faster and using less hardware.

Abstract · An Efficient Training Approach for Very Large Scale Face Recognition

Face recognition has achieved significant progress in deep learning era due to the ultra-large-scale and welllabeled datasets. However, training on the outsize datasets is time-consuming and takes up a lot of hardware resource. Therefore, designing an efficient training approach is indispensable. The heavy computational and memory costs mainly result from the million-level dimensionality of thefully connected (FC) layer. To this end, we propose a novel training approach, termed Faster Face Classification (F2C), to alleviate time and cost without sacrificing the performance. This method adopts Dynamic Class Pool (DCP) for storing and updating the identities features dynamically, which could be regarded as a substitute for the FC layer. DCP is efficiently time-saving and cost-saving, as its smaller size with the independence from the whole face identities together. We further validate the proposed F2C method across several face benchmarks and private datasets, and display comparable results, meanwhile the speed is faster than state-of-the-art FC-based methods in terms of recognition accuracy and hardware costs. Moreover, our method is further improved by a well-designed dual data loader including indentity-based and instancebased loaders, which makes it more efficient for the updating DCP parameters.

Kai Wang, Shuo Wang, Panpan Zhang, Zhipeng Zhou, Zheng Zhu, Xiaobo Wang, Xiaojiang Peng, Baigui Sun, Hao Li, Yang You
arXiv:2105.10375 · cs.CV · submitted May 21, 2021 · updated Mar 3, 2022
abstract · pdf · html · This paper has been accepted by CVPR2022!

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