A local, unsupervised pruning rule based on activity fluctuations preserves task performance in trained recurrent networks and outperforms magnitude and second-order pruning baselines, with optimal rescaling weaker than theory predicts.
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Effective pruning of task-trained recurrent neural networks using noisy fluctuations and connection rescaling
A local, unsupervised pruning rule based on activity fluctuations preserves task performance in trained recurrent networks and outperforms magnitude and second-order pruning baselines, with optimal rescaling weaker than theory predicts.