Title
Unsupervised Synaptic Pruning Strategies for Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
Abstract
While unsupervised generative neural networks are attractive choices for adoption in always-on continuous-time smart sensory systems, they typically impose heavy memory requirements on the underlying computational fabric. Recent literature on binarized neural networks has not yet been extended to unsupervised generative networks and alternate strategies are required to reduce their memory footprint. This work studies unsupervised synaptic pruning strategies to reduce the memory requirements for Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). In addition to one-shot pruning, we explore alternative strategies that encompass iterative stochastic pruning as well as pruning under target probability density functions for an RBM trained over the MNIST database. Interestingly, the results presented here suggest that one-shot re-training after pruning of the least significant connections in a trained network yields improved performance/memory trade-off over multiple iterations of stochastic pruning and re-training on the same network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BIOCAS.2018.8584839
2018 IEEE BIOMEDICAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (BIOCAS): ADVANCED SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING HUMAN HEALTH
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,Boltzmann machine,MNIST database,Computer science,Memory management,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Memory footprint,Synaptic pruning,Probability density function,Machine learning,Pruning
Conference
2163-4025
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Surabhi Kalyan100.34
Siddharth Joshi2192.02
S Sheik3305.20
Bruno Pedroni4868.46
Gert Cauwcnbcrghs500.34