Alexandru Condurache

Interspace Pruning: Using Adaptive Filter Representations To Improve Training of Sparse CNNs

Unstructured pruning is well suited to reduce the memory footprint of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), both at training and inference time. CNNs contain parameters arranged in K x K filters. Standard unstructured pruning (SP) reduces the memory footprint of CNNs by setting filter elements to ze…