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SplitNet: Learning to Semantically Split Deep Networks for Parameter Reduction and Model Parallelization
Juyong Kim · Yookoon Park · Gunhee Kim · Sung Ju Hwang

Sun Aug 06 11:06 PM -- 11:24 PM (PDT) @ Darling Harbour Theatre
in Deep learning 3: metalearning »

We propose a novel deep neural network that is both lightweight and effectively structured for model parallelization. Our network, which we name as SplitNet, automatically learns to split the network weights into either a set or a hierarchy of multiple groups that use disjoint sets of features, by learning both the class-to-group and feature-to-group assignment matrices along with the network weights. This produces a tree-structured network that involves no connection between branched subtrees of semantically disparate class groups. SplitNet thus greatly reduces the number of parameters and requires significantly less computations, and is also embarrassingly model parallelizable at test time, since the network evaluation for each subnetwork is completely independent except for the shared lower layer weights that can be duplicated over multiple processors. We validate our method with two deep network models (ResNet and AlexNet) on two different datasets (CIFAR-100 and ILSVRC 2012) for image classification, on which our method obtains networks with significantly reduced number of parameters while achieving comparable or superior classification accuracies over original full deep networks, and accelerated test speed with multiple GPUs.

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Juyong Kim (Seoul National University)
Yookoon Park (Seoul National University)
Gunhee Kim (Seoul National University)
Sung Ju Hwang (UNIST / AItrics)

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