边缘设备上有限且动态的资源激励我们部署优化的深神经网络，该网络可以调整其子网络以适应不同的资源约束。但是，现有作品通常通过在手工制作的采样空间中搜索不同的网络体系结构来构建子网络，这不仅可以导致低标准的性能，而且可能导致设备上的重新配置开销。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的培训算法，动态的实时稀疏子网（着装）。着装通过基于行的非结构化稀疏度从相同的骨干网络采样多个子网络，并与加权损失并联训练这些子网络。着装还利用包括参数重复使用和基于行的细粒抽样在内的策略，以进行有效的存储消耗和有效的机上适应。公共视觉数据集的广泛实验表明，与最先进的子网络相比，着装的准确性明显更高。

新兴的边缘情报应用程序要求服务器重新训练和更新部署在远程边缘节点上的深神经网络，以利用新收集的数据示例。不幸的是，由于高度严格的通信资源，在实践中可能不可能连续向这些边缘节点发送全面更新的权重。在本文中，我们提出了重量的深层部分更新范式，该范式巧妙地选择了一小部分权重以在每个服务器到边缘通信中进行更新，同时与完整更新相比实现了相似的性能。我们的方法是通过分析上限的部分更新和完整更新之间的损失差异来建立的，并且只能更新权重，从而对上限产生最大的贡献。广泛的实验结果证明了我们部分更新方法的功效，该方法在更新少量的权重的同时，可以达到高推理精度。

IoT设备收集的数据通常是私人的，并且在各种用户之间具有巨大的多样性。因此，学习需要使用可用的代表性数据样本进行预训练，在物联网设备上部署预训练的模型，并使用本地数据在设备上调整已部署的模型。这种用于深度学习授权应用程序的设备改编需要数据和记忆效率。但是，现有的基于梯度的元学习方案无法支持记忆有效的适应。为此，我们提出了P-Meta，这是一种新的元学习方法，该方法可以强制执行结构的部分参数更新，同时确保快速概括到看不见的任务。对几片图像分类和强化学习任务的评估表明，与最先进的几次适应方法相比。

During the deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices, many research efforts are devoted to the limited hardware resource. However, little attention is paid to the influence of dynamic power management. As edge devices typically only have a budget of energy with batteries (rather than almost unlimited energy support on servers or workstations), their dynamic power management often changes the execution frequency as in the widely-used dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) technique. This leads to highly unstable inference speed performance, especially for computation-intensive DNN models, which can harm user experience and waste hardware resources. We firstly identify this problem and then propose All-in-One, a highly representative pruning framework to work with dynamic power management using DVFS. The framework can use only one set of model weights and soft masks (together with other auxiliary parameters of negligible storage) to represent multiple models of various pruning ratios. By re-configuring the model to the corresponding pruning ratio for a specific execution frequency (and voltage), we are able to achieve stable inference speed, i.e., keeping the difference in speed performance under various execution frequencies as small as possible. Our experiments demonstrate that our method not only achieves high accuracy for multiple models of different pruning ratios, but also reduces their variance of inference latency for various frequencies, with minimal memory consumption of only one model and one soft mask.

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the model size; 2) decrease the run-time memory footprint; and 3) lower the number of computing operations, without compromising accuracy. This is achieved by enforcing channel-level sparsity in the network in a simple but effective way. Different from many existing approaches, the proposed method directly applies to modern CNN architectures, introduces minimum overhead to the training process, and requires no special software/hardware accelerators for the resulting models. We call our approach network slimming, which takes wide and large networks as input models, but during training insignificant channels are automatically identified and pruned afterwards, yielding thin and compact models with comparable accuracy. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with several state-of-the-art CNN models, including VGGNet, ResNet and DenseNet, on various image classification datasets. For VGGNet, a multi-pass version of network slimming gives a 20× reduction in model size and a 5× reduction in computing operations.

Many applications require sparse neural networks due to space or inference time restrictions. There is a large body of work on training dense networks to yield sparse networks for inference, but this limits the size of the largest trainable sparse model to that of the largest trainable dense model. In this paper we introduce a method to train sparse neural networks with a fixed parameter count and a fixed computational cost throughout training, without sacrificing accuracy relative to existing dense-tosparse training methods. Our method updates the topology of the sparse network during training by using parameter magnitudes and infrequent gradient calculations. We show that this approach requires fewer floating-point operations (FLOPs) to achieve a given level of accuracy compared to prior techniques. We demonstrate state-of-the-art sparse training results on a variety of networks and datasets, including ResNet-50, MobileNets on Imagenet-2012, and RNNs on WikiText-103. Finally, we provide some insights into why allowing the topology to change during the optimization can overcome local minima encountered when the topology remains static * .

彩票票证假设（LTH）表明，密集的模型包含高度稀疏的子网（即获奖门票），可以隔离培训以完全准确。尽管做出了许多激动人心的努力，但仍有一个“常识”很少受到挑战：通过迭代级修剪（IMP）发现了一张获胜的票，因此由此产生的修剪子网仅具有非结构化的稀疏性。这一差距限制了在实践中赢得门票的吸引力，因为高度不规则的稀疏模式在硬件上加速的挑战是挑战性的。同时，直接将结构化修剪替换为非结构化的修剪，以更严重地损害绩效，并且通常无法找到获胜的票。在本文中，我们证明了第一个积极的结果是，总体上可以有效地找到结构上稀疏的获胜票。核心思想是在每一轮（非结构化）IMP之后附加“后处理技术”，以实施结构稀疏的形成。具体而言，我们首先在某些被认为很重要的通道中“重新填充”修剪元素，然后“重新组”非零元素以创建灵活的群体结构模式。我们确定的渠道和团体结构子网都赢得了彩票，并以现有硬件很容易支持的大量推理加速。广泛的实验，在多个网络骨架的不同数据集上进行，一致验证了我们的建议，表明LTH的硬件加速障碍现在已被删除。具体而言，结构上的获胜票最多可获得{64.93％，64.84％，60.23％}的运行时间节省，以{36％〜80％，74％，58％}的稀疏性在{Cifar，cifar，tiny-imageNet，imageNet}上保持可比较的精度。代码在https://github.com/vita-group/structure-lth上。

通过强迫连续重量的最多n非零，最近的N：M网络稀疏性因其两个有吸引力的优势而受到越来越多的关注：1）高稀疏性的有希望的表现。 2）对NVIDIA A100 GPU的显着加速。最近的研究需要昂贵的训练阶段或重型梯度计算。在本文中，我们表明N：M学习可以自然地将其描述为一个组合问题，该问题可以在有限的集合中寻找最佳组合候选者。由这种特征激励，我们以有效的分裂方式解决了n：m的稀疏性。首先，我们将重量向量分为$ c _ {\ text {m}}}^{\ text {n}} $组合s子集的固定大小N。然后，我们通过分配每个组合来征服组合问题，一个可学习的分数是共同优化了其关联权重。我们证明，引入的评分机制可以很好地模拟组合子集之间的相对重要性。通过逐渐去除低得分的子集，可以在正常训练阶段有效地优化N：M细粒稀疏性。全面的实验表明，我们的学习最佳组合（LBC）的表现始终如一，始终如一地比现成的N：m稀疏方法更好。我们的代码在\ url {https://github.com/zyxxmu/lbc}上发布。

深度神经网络（DNN）的记录断裂性能具有沉重的参数化，导致外部动态随机存取存储器（DRAM）进行存储。 DRAM访问的禁用能量使得在资源受限的设备上部署DNN是不普遍的，呼叫最小化重量和数据移动以提高能量效率。我们呈现SmartDeal（SD），算法框架，以进行更高成本的存储器存储/访问的较低成本计算，以便在推理和培训中积极提高存储和能量效率。 SD的核心是一种具有结构约束的新型重量分解，精心制作以释放硬件效率潜力。具体地，我们将每个重量张量分解为小基矩阵的乘积以及大的结构稀疏系数矩阵，其非零被量化为-2的功率。由此产生的稀疏和量化的DNN致力于为数据移动和重量存储而大大降低的能量，因为由于稀疏的比特 - 操作和成本良好的计算，恢复原始权重的最小开销。除了推理之外，我们采取了另一次飞跃来拥抱节能培训，引入创新技术，以解决培训时出现的独特障碍，同时保留SD结构。我们还设计专用硬件加速器，充分利用SD结构来提高实际能源效率和延迟。我们在不同的设置中对多个任务，模型和数据集进行实验。结果表明：1）应用于推理，SD可实现高达2.44倍的能效，通过实际硬件实现评估; 2）应用于培训，储存能量降低10.56倍，减少了10.56倍和4.48倍，与最先进的训练基线相比，可忽略的准确性损失。我们的源代码在线提供。

Structured channel pruning has been shown to significantly accelerate inference time for convolution neural networks (CNNs) on modern hardware, with a relatively minor loss of network accuracy. Recent works permanently zero these channels during training, which we observe to significantly hamper final accuracy, particularly as the fraction of the network being pruned increases. We propose Soft Masking for cost-constrained Channel Pruning (SMCP) to allow pruned channels to adaptively return to the network while simultaneously pruning towards a target cost constraint. By adding a soft mask re-parameterization of the weights and channel pruning from the perspective of removing input channels, we allow gradient updates to previously pruned channels and the opportunity for the channels to later return to the network. We then formulate input channel pruning as a global resource allocation problem. Our method outperforms prior works on both the ImageNet classification and PASCAL VOC detection datasets.

重量修剪是一种有效的模型压缩技术，可以解决在移动设备上实现实时深神经网络（DNN）推断的挑战。然而，由于精度劣化，难以利用硬件加速度，以及某些类型的DNN层的限制，难以降低的应用方案具有有限的应用方案。在本文中，我们提出了一般的细粒度的结构化修剪方案和相应的编译器优化，适用于任何类型的DNN层，同时实现高精度和硬件推理性能。随着使用我们的编译器优化所支持的不同层的灵活性，我们进一步探讨了确定最佳修剪方案的新问题，了解各种修剪方案的不同加速度和精度性能。两个修剪方案映射方法，一个是基于搜索，另一个是基于规则的，建议自动推导出任何给定DNN的每层的最佳修剪规则和块大小。实验结果表明，我们的修剪方案映射方法，以及一般细粒化结构修剪方案，优于最先进的DNN优化框架，最高可达2.48 $ \ times $和1.73 $ \ times $ DNN推理加速在CiFar-10和Imagenet DataSet上没有准确性损失。

深度神经网络（DNN）在解决许多真实问题方面都有效。较大的DNN模型通常表现出更好的质量（例如，精度，精度），但它们的过度计算会导致长期推理时间。模型稀疏可以降低计算和内存成本，同时保持模型质量。大多数现有的稀疏算法是单向移除的重量，而其他人则随机或贪婪地探索每层进行修剪的小权重子集。这些算法的局限性降低了可实现的稀疏性水平。此外，许多算法仍然需要预先训练的密集模型，因此遭受大的内存占地面积。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的预定生长和修剪（间隙）方法，而无需预先培训密集模型。它通过反复生长一个层次的层来解决以前的作品的缺点，然后在一些训练后修剪回到稀疏。实验表明，使用所提出的方法修剪模型匹配或击败高度优化的密集模型的质量，在各种任务中以80％的稀疏度，例如图像分类，客观检测，3D对象分段和翻译。它们还优于模型稀疏的其他最先进的（SOTA）方法。作为一个例子，通过间隙获得的90％不均匀的稀疏resnet-50模型在想象中实现了77.9％的前1个精度，提高了先前的SOTA结果1.5％。所有代码将公开发布。

由于深度学习模型通常包含数百万可培训的权重，因此对更有效的网络结构具有越来越高的存储空间和提高的运行时效率。修剪是最受欢迎的网络压缩技术之一。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的非结构化修剪管线，基于关注的同时稀疏结构和体重学习（ASWL）。与传统的频道和体重注意机制不同，ASWL提出了一种有效的算法来计算每层的层次引起的修剪比率，并且跟踪密度网络和稀疏网络的两种权重，以便修剪结构是同时从随机初始化的权重学习。我们在Mnist，CiFar10和Imagenet上的实验表明，与最先进的网络修剪方法相比，ASWL在准确性，修剪比率和操作效率方面取得了卓越的修剪。

Network pruning is widely used for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep models in low-resource settings. A typical pruning algorithm is a three-stage pipeline, i.e., training (a large model), pruning and fine-tuning. During pruning, according to a certain criterion, redundant weights are pruned and important weights are kept to best preserve the accuracy. In this work, we make several surprising observations which contradict common beliefs. For all state-of-the-art structured pruning algorithms we examined, fine-tuning a pruned model only gives comparable or worse performance than training that model with randomly initialized weights. For pruning algorithms which assume a predefined target network architecture, one can get rid of the full pipeline and directly train the target network from scratch. Our observations are consistent for multiple network architectures, datasets, and tasks, which imply that: 1) training a large, over-parameterized model is often not necessary to obtain an efficient final model, 2) learned "important" weights of the large model are typically not useful for the small pruned model, 3) the pruned architecture itself, rather than a set of inherited "important" weights, is more crucial to the efficiency in the final model, which suggests that in some cases pruning can be useful as an architecture search paradigm. Our results suggest the need for more careful baseline evaluations in future research on structured pruning methods. We also compare with the "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (Frankle & Carbin, 2019), and find that with optimal learning rate, the "winning ticket" initialization as used in Frankle & Carbin (2019) does not bring improvement over random initialization. * Equal contribution. † Work done while visiting UC Berkeley.

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully chosen trade-off between performance and resource consumption in terms of computation and energy. The development of such approaches is among the major challenges in current machine learning research and key to ensure a smooth transition of machine learning technology from a scientific environment with virtually unlimited computing resources into everyday's applications. In this article, we provide an overview of the current state of the art of machine learning techniques facilitating these real-world requirements. In particular, we focus on deep neural networks (DNNs), the predominant machine learning models of the past decade. We give a comprehensive overview of the vast literature that can be mainly split into three non-mutually exclusive categories: (i) quantized neural networks, (ii) network pruning, and (iii) structural efficiency. These techniques can be applied during training or as post-processing, and they are widely used to reduce the computational demands in terms of memory footprint, inference speed, and energy efficiency. We also briefly discuss different concepts of embedded hardware for DNNs and their compatibility with machine learning techniques as well as potential for energy and latency reduction. We substantiate our discussion with experiments on well-known benchmark datasets using compression techniques (quantization, pruning) for a set of resource-constrained embedded systems, such as CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. The obtained results highlight the difficulty of finding good trade-offs between resource efficiency and predictive performance.

Neural network pruning has been a well-established compression technique to enable deep learning models on resource-constrained devices. The pruned model is usually specialized to meet specific hardware platforms and training tasks (defined as deployment scenarios). However, existing pruning approaches rely heavily on training data to trade off model size, efficiency, and accuracy, which becomes ineffective for federated learning (FL) over distributed and confidential datasets. Moreover, the memory- and compute-intensive pruning process of most existing approaches cannot be handled by most FL devices with resource limitations. In this paper, we develop FedTiny, a novel distributed pruning framework for FL, to obtain specialized tiny models for memory- and computing-constrained participating devices with confidential local data. To alleviate biased pruning due to unseen heterogeneous data over devices, FedTiny introduces an adaptive batch normalization (BN) selection module to adaptively obtain an initially pruned model to fit deployment scenarios. Besides, to further improve the initial pruning, FedTiny develops a lightweight progressive pruning module for local finer pruning under tight memory and computational budgets, where the pruning policy for each layer is gradually determined rather than evaluating the overall deep model structure. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of FedTiny, which outperforms state-of-the-art baseline approaches, especially when compressing deep models to extremely sparse tiny models.

我们考虑在具有挑战性的训练后环境中，深度神经网络（DNN）的模型压缩问题，在该设置中，我们将获得精确的训练模型，并且必须仅基于少量校准输入数据而无需任何重新培训即可压缩它。鉴于新兴软件和硬件支持通过加速修剪和/或量化压缩的模型，并且已经针对两种压缩方法独立提出了良好的表现解决方案，因此该问题已变得流行。在本文中，我们引入了一个新的压缩框架，该框架涵盖了统一环境中的重量修剪和量化，时间和空间效率高，并且在现有的后训练方法的实际性能上大大改善。在技​​术层面上，我们的方法基于[Lecun，Denker和Solla，1990年]在现代DNN的规模上的经典最佳脑外科医生（OBS）框架的第一个精确实现，我们进一步扩展到覆盖范围。重量量化。这是通过一系列可能具有独立利益的算法开发来实现的。从实际的角度来看，我们的实验结果表明，它可以在现有后训练方法的压缩 - 准确性权衡方面显着改善，并且甚至可以在训练后进行修剪和量化的准确共同应用。

最近，稀疏培训已成为有希望的范式，可在边缘设备上有效地深入学习。当前的研究主要致力于通过进一步增加模型稀疏性来降低培训成本。但是，增加的稀疏性并不总是理想的，因为它不可避免地会在极高的稀疏度下引入严重的准确性降解。本文打算探索其他可能的方向，以有效，有效地降低稀疏培训成本，同时保持准确性。为此，我们研究了两种技术，即层冻结和数据筛分。首先，层冻结方法在密集的模型训练和微调方面取得了成功，但在稀疏训练域中从未采用过。然而，稀疏训练的独特特征可能会阻碍层冻结技术的结合。因此，我们分析了在稀疏培训中使用层冻结技术的可行性和潜力，并发现它有可能节省大量培训成本。其次，我们提出了一种用于数据集有效培训的数据筛分方法，该方法通过确保在整个培训过程中仅使用部分数据集来进一步降低培训成本。我们表明，这两种技术都可以很好地整合到稀疏训练算法中，以形成一个通用框架，我们将其配置为SPFDE。我们的广泛实验表明，SPFDE可以显着降低培训成本，同时从三个维度中保留准确性：重量稀疏性，层冻结和数据集筛分。

这项工作专注于通过使用直接稀疏算法来提高一些卷积神经网络（CNNS）并提高图形处理单元（GPU）的效率。 NVIDIA深神经网络（CUDNN）图书馆是GPU的深度学习（DL）算法的最有效实现。 GPU是深度学习计算最常用的加速器。提高CNN模型效率的最常用技术之一是重量修剪和量化。修剪有两种主要类型：结构和非结构性。首先，可以在许多类型的加速器上更容易地加速，但是通过这种类型，难以实现稀疏度水平和高精度，与第二种类型一样高。在一些深入的CNN模型中，刷新的非结构修剪可以产生高达90％或更多的重量张量，其稀疏性。在本文中，提出了修剪算法，这使得可以在没有精确下降的情况下实现高稀疏水平。在下一阶段，线性和非线性量化适用于进一步的时间和占地面积。本文是一篇关于有效修剪技术的先前发表的论文，并且目前具有高稀疏性的实际模型和降低精度，可以实现比CUDNN图书馆更好的性能。

深度学习技术在各种任务中都表现出了出色的有效性，并且深度学习具有推进多种应用程序（包括在边缘计算中）的潜力，其中将深层模型部署在边缘设备上，以实现即时的数据处理和响应。一个关键的挑战是，虽然深层模型的应用通常会产生大量的内存和计算成本，但Edge设备通常只提供非常有限的存储和计算功能，这些功能可能会在各个设备之间差异很大。这些特征使得难以构建深度学习解决方案，以释放边缘设备的潜力，同时遵守其约束。应对这一挑战的一种有希望的方法是自动化有效的深度学习模型的设计，这些模型轻巧，仅需少量存储，并且仅产生低计算开销。该调查提供了针对边缘计算的深度学习模型设计自动化技术的全面覆盖。它提供了关键指标的概述和比较，这些指标通常用于量化模型在有效性，轻度和计算成本方面的水平。然后，该调查涵盖了深层设计自动化技术的三类最新技术：自动化神经体系结构搜索，自动化模型压缩以及联合自动化设计和压缩。最后，调查涵盖了未来研究的开放问题和方向。