Summary of Cnn Mixture-of-depths, by Rinor Cakaj et al.
CNN Mixture-of-Depths
by Rinor Cakaj, Jens Mehnert, Bin Yang
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel Mixture-of-Depths (MoD) approach for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) optimizes computational resources by dynamically selecting key channels in feature maps. This method uses a static computation graph with fixed tensor sizes, improving hardware efficiency and speeding up training and inference processes without requiring customized CUDA kernels or finetuning. MoD either matches the performance of traditional CNNs with reduced inference times, GMACs, and parameters or exceeds their performance while maintaining similar inference times, GMACs, and parameters. For example, ResNet86-MoD outperforms standard ResNet50 by 0.45% with a 6% speedup on CPU and 5% on GPU, while ResNet75-MoD achieves the same performance as ResNet50 with a 25% speedup on CPU and 15% on GPU. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CNNs get faster! Researchers created Mixture-of-Depths (MoD), an innovative way to make Convolutional Neural Networks work more efficiently. MoD helps by picking the most important parts of what the computer is looking at, then skipping over less useful parts. This makes it run faster and use fewer computer resources without needing special settings or extra training. The new approach is just as good or even better than usual CNNs, with a speed boost on both CPUs and GPUs. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
