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Topology-Aware Network Pruning using Multi-stage Graph Embedding and Reinforcement Learning

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arxiv 2102.03214 v2 pith:T3UT3B3P submitted 2021-02-05 cs.CV cs.LG

Topology-Aware Network Pruning using Multi-stage Graph Embedding and Reinforcement Learning

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Model compression is an essential technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on power and memory-constrained resources. However, existing model-compression methods often rely on human expertise and focus on parameters' local importance, ignoring the rich topology information within DNNs. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-stage graph embedding technique based on graph neural networks (GNNs) to identify DNN topologies and use reinforcement learning (RL) to find a suitable compression policy. We performed resource-constrained (i.e., FLOPs) channel pruning and compared our approach with state-of-the-art model compression methods. We evaluated our method on various models from typical to mobile-friendly networks, such as ResNet family, VGG-16, MobileNet-v1/v2, and ShuffleNet. Results show that our method can achieve higher compression ratios with a minimal fine-tuning cost yet yields outstanding and competitive performance.

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    A graph-attention RL agent with a binary channel-level action space and a self-competition reward prunes CNNs at fixed FLOPs budgets, giving competitive but not uniformly state-of-the-art accuracy.