Summary of Weight Block Sparsity: Training, Compilation, and Ai Engine Accelerators, by Paolo D’alberto et al.
Weight Block Sparsity: Training, Compilation, and AI Engine Accelerators
by Paolo D’Alberto, Taehee Jeong, Akshai Jain, Shreyas Manjunath, Mrinal Sarmah, Samuel Hsu, Yaswanth Raparti, Nitesh Pipralia
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method aims to reduce the computational requirements of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by implementing weight block sparsity, a structured approach that is hardware-friendly. By pruning specific sections of pre-trained DNN models’ parameters, the inference process can be accelerated, resulting in reduced memory usage, faster communication, and fewer operations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) require significant computational resources, making them challenging to deploy on devices with limited capabilities. To address this issue, researchers propose a structured sparsity approach called weight block sparsity that efficiently speeds up the DNN’s inference process by zeroing certain sections of the convolution and fully connected layers’ parameters. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Pruning
