Network Pruning on CNN

How can I perform network pruning, using prune function on CNN's?

I want to use it on alexnet

Answer 1

[Anshika Chaurasia]

Hi,

You can refer to following example about pruning deep learning network:

Parameter Pruning and Quantization of Image Classification Network - MATLAB & Simulink (mathworks.com)

Answer 2

[Katja Mogalle]

Hi

There is a new pruning feature in R2022a that let's you prune whole filters in 2D convolution layers. By removing unimportant filters in the network, the memory footprint of the network reduces and inference get's faster.

See taylorPrunableNetwork doc page for more information. There are also two examples:

• Prune Image Classification Network Using Taylor Scores
• Prune Filters in a Detection Network Using Taylor Scores

Hope this helps.