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Glance and Focus: a Dynamic Approach to Reducing Spatial Redundancy in Image Classification

NeurIPS 2020 · Architectures and efficiency › CNN design · approach: Efficient CNN scaling and dynamic inference · 29 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use learned patch selection rather than random patch selection, retaining the Glance Step (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 74.46% -> 75.93%Helped
Use learned patch selection rather than centre-corner patch selection, retaining the Glance Step (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 75.12% -> 75.93%Helped
Add a separate global encoder instead of using a single encoder (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 74.26% -> 75.93%Helped
Add the CNN regularization term L_cls' (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 73.94% -> 75.93%Helped
Fine-tune the global encoder on H'×W' images before initialization (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 75.56% -> 75.93%Helped
Use the downsampled full image for the Glance Step instead of a centre crop (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 74.70% -> 75.93%Helped
Add training Stage III to fine-tune the encoders and classifier with the learned policy fixed (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, fixed input sequence length t=5Top-1 accuracy: 75.36% -> 75.93%Helped
Use GFNet instead of vanilla MobileNet-V3 at the same computation budgetMobileNet-V3 · ImageNet, budgeted batch classificationTop-1 accuracy: ~2%Helped
Use GFNet instead of MSDNetDenseNet-121-based anytime classifier · ImageNet, anytime prediction, budgets from 5×10^8 to 2.2×10^9 Multiply-AddsTop-1 accuracy difference: ~4-10%Helped
Use GFNet instead of MobileNet-V3-Large baselineMobileNet-V3-Large · ImageNet test, iPhone XS Max, 75.4% test accuracyInference latency: 16.3ms -> 12.7ms; 22%Helped
Increase patch size (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, anytime predictionTop-1 accuracyMixed
Vary maximum input sequence length T while holding computation fixed (ablation)GFNet (ResNet-50) · ImageNet, anytime predictionTop-1 accuracyNo clear effect

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