CNNPruner: Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks with Visual Analytics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09940v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 02:08:20 GMT
• Title: CNNPruner: Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks with Visual Analytics
• Authors: Guan Li, Junpeng Wang, Han-Wei Shen, Kaixin Chen, Guihua Shan, and Zhonghua Lu
• Abstract summary: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. CNNPruner allows users to interactively create pruning plans according to a desired goal on model size or accuracy.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. The increasing size of CNN models, however, prevents them from being widely deployed to devices with limited computational resources, e.g., mobile/embedded devices. The emerging topic of model pruning strives to address this problem by removing less important neurons and fine-tuning the pruned networks to minimize the accuracy loss. Nevertheless, existing automated pruning solutions often rely on a numerical threshold of the pruning criteria, lacking the flexibility to optimally balance the trade-off between model size and accuracy. Moreover, the complicated interplay between the stages of neuron pruning and model fine-tuning makes this process opaque, and therefore becomes difficult to optimize. In this paper, we address these challenges through a visual analytics approach, named CNNPruner. It considers the importance of convolutional filters through both instability and sensitivity, and allows users to interactively create pruning plans according to a desired goal on model size or accuracy. Also, CNNPruner integrates state-of-the-art filter visualization techniques to help users understand the roles that different filters played and refine their pruning plans. Through comprehensive case studies on CNNs with real-world sizes, we validate the effectiveness of CNNPruner.

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