2016

Ultimate tensorization: compressing convolutional and FC layers alike

Garipov, Timur, Podoprikhin, Dmitry, Novikov, Alexander et al.

Understand

Convolutional neural networks excel in image recognition tasks, but this comes at the cost of high computational and memory complexity.

  • To tackle this problem, [1] developed a tensor factorization framework to compress fully-connected layers.
  • In this paper, we focus on compressing convolutional layers.
  • We show that while the direct application of the tensor framework [1] to the 4-dimensional kernel of convolution does compress the layer, we can do better.

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