Summary of Bbs: Bi-directional Bit-level Sparsity For Deep Learning Acceleration, by Yuzong Chen et al.
BBS: Bi-directional Bit-level Sparsity for Deep Learning Acceleration
by Yuzong Chen, Jian Meng, Jae-sun Seo, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper improves the efficiency and practicality of bit-level sparsity methods in deep neural networks (DNNs). Bit-level sparsity skips unnecessary operations by exploiting zeros or ones at the bit level. The authors propose a novel algorithmic method called bidirectional bit sparsity (BBS) that leverages this concept to prune either zero-bits or one-bits, achieving load balance and guaranteeing sparsity levels over 50%. Additionally, they introduce two binary pruning methods that require no retraining and can be applied to quantized DNNs. The authors also design a bit-serial hardware accelerator called BitVert, which accelerates DNN computations with low overhead. Evaluation on seven representative DNN models shows an average model size reduction of 1.66 times with negligible accuracy loss (<0.5%) and up to 3.03 times speedup and 2.44 times energy savings compared to prior DNN accelerators. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes deep learning computers faster and more efficient by using a new way to skip unnecessary calculations. It’s like finding ways to turn off lights in your house that you don’t need, so you use less electricity. The authors came up with a clever idea called bidirectional bit sparsity, which helps make computations faster and uses less memory. They also designed a special computer chip that can do these calculations quickly and efficiently. When they tested their ideas on seven different types of deep learning models, they found that it made the computers 1.66 times faster and used 2.44 times less energy compared to previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Pruning
