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Structured Bayesian Pruning via Log-Normal Multiplicative Noise

NeurIPS 2017 · Architectures and efficiency › Pruning and efficient tuning · approach: Sparse training from scratch · 131 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use structured Bayesian pruning instead of the original networkLeNet-500-300 · MNISTFLOPs speedup: 1.00× -> 11.23×Helped
use structured Bayesian pruning instead of the original networkLeNet-500-300 · MNISTError (%): 1.54 -> 1.55No clear effect
use structured Bayesian pruning instead of the original networkLeNet5-Caffe · MNISTFLOPs speedup: 1.00× -> 10.49×Helped
use structured Bayesian pruning instead of the original networkLeNet5-Caffe · MNISTError (%): 0.80 -> 0.86No clear effect
use structured Bayesian pruning instead of SparseVDVGG-like · CIFAR-10, k=1.0FLOPs speedup: 2.27× -> 2.30×No clear effect
scale the KL term by layer computational complexity (ablation)StructuredBP · CIFAR-10, VGG-like k=1.0Error (%): 7.5 -> 9.0Hurt
scale the KL term by layer computational complexity (ablation)StructuredBP · CIFAR-10, VGG-like k=1.0FLOPs speedup: 2.30× -> 3.16×Helped
scale the KL term by layer computational complexity (ablation)StructuredBP · CIFAR-10, VGG-like k=1.5Error (%): 7.2 -> 7.8Hurt
scale the KL term by layer computational complexity (ablation)StructuredBP · CIFAR-10, VGG-like k=1.5FLOPs speedup: 3.32× -> 3.93×Helped
train both the noise mean and variance instead of fixing the mean (ablation)SBP · MNISTmodel quality and sparsityHelped
use Bayesian ensembling at test time rather than expected noise values (ablation)SBP · classification experimentsaccuracyNo clear effect
apply SBP to random-label data instead of Binary DropoutLeNet5 on MNIST and VGG-like on CIFAR-10 · random-label classificationoverfittingHelped

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