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Exploring Sparsity in Image Super-Resolution for Efficient Inference

CVPR 2021 · Image generation › Super-resolution · approach: CNN and transformer SR architectures · 312 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use jointly learned spatial and channel masks to skip redundant computationSMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.65 -> 33.64Helped
remove spatial and channel masks (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2FLOPs: 1.00× -> 0.61×Hurt
add channel masks without spatial masks (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.65 -> 33.53Hurt
add spatial masks without channel masks (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.65 -> 33.60Hurt
increase sparsity regularization weight λ₀ from 0.1 to 0.2 (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.64 -> 33.61; 0.46 -> 0.64 sparsityMixed
increase sparsity regularization weight λ₀ from 0.1 to 0.3 (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.64 -> 33.52; 0.46 -> 0.73 sparsityMixed
replace learned spatial masks with fixed gradient-based masks (ablation)SMSR · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.64 vs. 33.33/33.30Hurt
use SMSR rather than FALSR-Alightweight SR models · Set14, ×2PSNR: 33.55 -> 33.64Helped
use SMSR rather than CARNlightweight SR models · Set14, ×4PSNR: 28.60 -> 28.55Hurt
use SMSR rather than CARNlightweight SR models · Set14, ×3PSNR: 30.29 -> 30.33Helped

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