Poster
Structured Bayesian Pruning via Log-Normal Multiplicative Noise
Kirill Neklyudov · Dmitry Molchanov · Arsenii Ashukha · Dmitry Vetrov

Mon Dec 4th 06:30 -- 10:30 PM @ Pacific Ballroom #140 #None
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Dropout-based regularization methods can be regarded as injecting random noise with pre-defined magnitude to different parts of the neural network during training. It was recently shown that Bayesian dropout procedure not only improves gener- alization but also leads to extremely sparse neural architectures by automatically setting the individual noise magnitude per weight. However, this sparsity can hardly be used for acceleration since it is unstructured. In the paper, we propose a new Bayesian model that takes into account the computational structure of neural net- works and provides structured sparsity, e.g. removes neurons and/or convolutional channels in CNNs. To do this we inject noise to the neurons outputs while keeping the weights unregularized. We establish the probabilistic model with a proper truncated log-uniform prior over the noise and truncated log-normal variational approximation that ensures that the KL-term in the evidence lower bound is com- puted in closed-form. The model leads to structured sparsity by removing elements with a low SNR from the computation graph and provides significant acceleration on a number of deep neural architectures. The model is easy to implement as it can be formulated as a separate dropout-like layer.

Keywords: Deep Learning · Bayesian Theory · Variational Inference

Author Information

Kirill Neklyudov (Yandex)
Dmitry Molchanov (Yandex)
Arsenii Ashukha
Dmitry Vetrov (Higher School of Economics, Samsung AI Center, Moscow)

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