Self-Reorganizing and Rejuvenating CNNs for Increasing Model Capacity Utilization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06870v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:19:45 GMT
• Title: Self-Reorganizing and Rejuvenating CNNs for Increasing Model Capacity Utilization
• Authors: Wissam J. Baddar, Seungju Han, Seonmin Rhee, Jae-Joon Han
• Abstract summary: We propose a biologically inspired method for improving the computational resource utilization of neural networks. The proposed method utilizes the channel activations of a convolution layer in order to reorganize that layers parameters. The rejuvenated parameters learn different features to supplement those learned by the reorganized surviving parameters.
• Score: 8.661269034961679
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we propose self-reorganizing and rejuvenating convolutional neural networks; a biologically inspired method for improving the computational resource utilization of neural networks. The proposed method utilizes the channel activations of a convolution layer in order to reorganize that layers parameters. The reorganized parameters are clustered to avoid parameter redundancies. As such, redundant neurons with similar activations are merged leaving room for the remaining parameters to rejuvenate. The rejuvenated parameters learn different features to supplement those learned by the reorganized surviving parameters. As a result, the network capacity utilization increases improving the baseline network performance without any changes to the network structure. The proposed method can be applied to various network architectures during the training stage, or applied to a pre-trained model improving its performance. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is model-agnostic and can be applied to any backbone architecture increasing its performance due to the elevated utilization of the network capacity.

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