A Bayesian Optimization Framework for Neural Network Compression

Xingchen Ma, Amal Rannen Triki, Maxim Berman, Christos Sagonas, Jacques Cali, Matthew B. Blaschko; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 10274-10283

Abstract


Neural network compression is an important step for deploying neural networks where speed is of high importance, or on devices with limited memory. It is necessary to tune compression parameters in order to achieve the desired trade-off between size and performance. This is often done by optimizing the loss on a validation set of data, which should be large enough to approximate the true risk and therefore yield sufficient generalization ability. However, using a full validation set can be computationally expensive. In this work, we develop a general Bayesian optimization framework for optimizing functions that are computed based on U-statistics. We propagate Gaussian uncertainties from the statistics through the Bayesian optimization framework yielding a method that gives a probabilistic approximation certificate of the result. We then apply this to parameter selection in neural network compression. Compression objectives that can be written as U-statistics are typically based on empirical risk and knowledge distillation for deep discriminative models. We demonstrate our method on VGG and ResNet models, and the resulting system can find optimal compression parameters for relatively high-dimensional parametrizations in a matter of minutes on a standard desktop machine, orders of magnitude faster than competing methods.

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@InProceedings{Ma_2019_ICCV,
author = {Ma, Xingchen and Triki, Amal Rannen and Berman, Maxim and Sagonas, Christos and Cali, Jacques and Blaschko, Matthew B.},
title = {A Bayesian Optimization Framework for Neural Network Compression},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}