AACP: Model Compression by Accurate and Automatic Channel Pruning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00390v1
• Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 06:19:29 GMT
• Title: AACP: Model Compression by Accurate and Automatic Channel Pruning
• Authors: Lanbo Lin, Yujiu Yang, Zhenhua Guo
• Abstract summary: Channel pruning is formulated as a neural architecture search (NAS) problem recently. Existing NAS-based methods are challenged by huge computational cost and inflexibility of applications. We propose a novel Accurate and Automatic Channel Pruning (AACP) method to address these problems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Channel pruning is formulated as a neural architecture search (NAS) problem recently. However, existing NAS-based methods are challenged by huge computational cost and inflexibility of applications. How to deal with multiple sparsity constraints simultaneously and speed up NAS-based channel pruning are still open challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel Accurate and Automatic Channel Pruning (AACP) method to address these problems. Firstly, AACP represents the structure of a model as a structure vector and introduces a pruning step vector to control the compressing granularity of each layer. Secondly, AACP utilizes Pruned Structure Accuracy Estimator (PSAE) to speed up the performance estimation process. Thirdly, AACP proposes Improved Differential Evolution (IDE) algorithm to search the optimal structure vector effectively. Because of IDE, AACP can deal with FLOPs constraint and model size constraint simultaneously and efficiently. Our method can be easily applied to various tasks and achieve state of the art performance. On CIFAR10, our method reduces $65\%$ FLOPs of ResNet110 with an improvement of $0.26\%$ top-1 accuracy. On ImageNet, we reduce $42\%$ FLOPs of ResNet50 with a small loss of $0.18\%$ top-1 accuracy and reduce $30\%$ FLOPs of MobileNetV2 with a small loss of $0.7\%$ top-1 accuracy. The source code will be released after publication.

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