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Poster

Exploiting Linear Structure Within Convolutional Networks for Efficient Evaluation

Emily Denton · Wojciech Zaremba · Joan Bruna · Yann LeCun · Rob Fergus

Level 2, room 210D

Abstract:

We present techniques for speeding up the test-time evaluation of large convolutional networks, designed for object recognition tasks. These models deliver impressive accuracy, but each image evaluation requires millions of floating point operations, making their deployment on smartphones and Internet-scale clusters problematic. The computation is dominated by the convolution operations in the lower layers of the model. We exploit the redundancy present within the convolutional filters to derive approximations that significantly reduce the required computation. Using large state-of-the-art models, we demonstrate speedups of convolutional layers on both CPU and GPU by a factor of 2×, while keeping the accuracy within 1% of the original model.

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