Summary of Bmrs: Bayesian Model Reduction For Structured Pruning, by Dustin Wright et al.
BMRS: Bayesian Model Reduction for Structured Pruning
by Dustin Wright, Christian Igel, Raghavendra Selvan
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes Bayesian Model Reduction for Structured Pruning (BMRS), an end-to-end Bayesian method for improving the compute and energy efficiency of neural networks. By removing full network structures with limited impact on output, BMRS aims to reduce overparameterization while maintaining good performance. The proposed approach is based on two recent methods: Bayesian structured pruning with multiplicative noise and Bayesian model reduction (BMR), which allows efficient comparison of models under prior changes. Two realizations of BMRS are derived from different priors, offering reliable compression rates and accuracy without threshold tuning (BMRS_N) or more aggressive compression based on truncation boundaries (BMRS_U). Experimental results on multiple datasets and networks demonstrate a competitive performance-efficiency trade-off compared to other pruning methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computer models called neural networks work better. Neural networks are really good at doing things like recognizing pictures, but they can be very slow and use a lot of energy. One way to make them faster and more efficient is by removing parts that aren’t important. The authors propose a new method for doing this, called Bayesian Model Reduction for Structured Pruning (BMRS). They show that their approach works well on different datasets and neural networks, and can help balance how well the model does with how much energy it uses. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Pruning
