No Fine-Tuning, No Cry: Robust SVD for Compressing Deep Networks

Autor: Matan Weksler, Alaa Maalouf, Murad Tukan, Dan Feldman
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors
Volume 21
Issue 16
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 5599, p 5599 (2021)
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s21165599
Popis: A common technique for compressing a neural network is to compute the k-rank ℓ2 approximation Ak of the matrix A∈Rn×d via SVD that corresponds to a fully connected layer (or embedding layer). Here, d is the number of input neurons in the layer, n is the number in the next one, and Ak is stored in O((n+d)k) memory instead of O(nd). Then, a fine-tuning step is used to improve this initial compression. However, end users may not have the required computation resources, time, or budget to run this fine-tuning stage. Furthermore, the original training set may not be available. In this paper, we provide an algorithm for compressing neural networks using a similar initial compression time (to common techniques) but without the fine-tuning step. The main idea is replacing the k-rank ℓ2 approximation with ℓp, for p∈[1,2], which is known to be less sensitive to outliers but much harder to compute. Our main technical result is a practical and provable approximation algorithm to compute it for any p≥1, based on modern techniques in computational geometry. Extensive experimental results on the GLUE benchmark for compressing the networks BERT, DistilBERT, XLNet, and RoBERTa confirm this theoretical advantage.
Databáze: OpenAIRE