Summary of Vq4all: Efficient Neural Network Representation Via a Universal Codebook, by Juncan Deng et al.
VQ4ALL: Efficient Neural Network Representation via a Universal Codebook
by Juncan Deng, Shuaiting Li, Zeyu Wang, Hong Gu, Kedong Xu, Kejie Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A lightweight neural network representation method is proposed to address the growing demands of big neural network models. The approach, called VQ4ALL, utilizes codewords to enable the construction of various neural networks and achieve efficient representations. By adopting a kernel density estimation approach to extract a universal codebook and then progressively constructing different low-bit networks by updating differentiable assignments, VQ4ALL achieves compression rates exceeding 16 times while preserving high accuracy across multiple network architectures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VQ4ALL is a new method for compressing neural networks. It works by sharing the same codebook among many different networks. This makes it much faster and uses less memory than other methods that try to compress each layer of the network separately. The researchers tested VQ4ALL on several types of networks and found that it can compress them by a factor of 16 or more without losing any accuracy. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Density estimation » Neural network
