Accelerating Deep Learning with Dynamic Data Pruning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12621v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:47:34 GMT
• Title: Accelerating Deep Learning with Dynamic Data Pruning
• Authors: Ravi S Raju, Kyle Daruwalla, Mikko Lipasti
• Abstract summary: Deep learning has become prohibitively costly, requiring access to powerful computing systems to train state-of-the-art networks. Previous work, such as forget scores and GraNd/EL2N scores, identify important samples within a full dataset and pruning the remaining samples, thereby reducing the iterations per epoch. We propose two algorithms, based on reinforcement learning techniques, to dynamically prune samples and achieve even higher accuracy than the random dynamic method.
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• Abstract: Deep learning's success has been attributed to the training of large, overparameterized models on massive amounts of data. As this trend continues, model training has become prohibitively costly, requiring access to powerful computing systems to train state-of-the-art networks. A large body of research has been devoted to addressing the cost per iteration of training through various model compression techniques like pruning and quantization. Less effort has been spent targeting the number of iterations. Previous work, such as forget scores and GraNd/EL2N scores, address this problem by identifying important samples within a full dataset and pruning the remaining samples, thereby reducing the iterations per epoch. Though these methods decrease the training time, they use expensive static scoring algorithms prior to training. When accounting for the scoring mechanism, the total run time is often increased. In this work, we address this shortcoming with dynamic data pruning algorithms. Surprisingly, we find that uniform random dynamic pruning can outperform the prior work at aggressive pruning rates. We attribute this to the existence of "sometimes" samples -- points that are important to the learned decision boundary only some of the training time. To better exploit the subtlety of sometimes samples, we propose two algorithms, based on reinforcement learning techniques, to dynamically prune samples and achieve even higher accuracy than the random dynamic method. We test all our methods against a full-dataset baseline and the prior work on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and we can reduce the training time by up to 2x without significant performance loss. Our results suggest that data pruning should be understood as a dynamic process that is closely tied to a model's training trajectory, instead of a static step based solely on the dataset alone.

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