Pruning Blocks for CNN Compression and Acceleration via Online Ensemble Distillation

In this paper, we propose an online ensemble distillation (OED) method to automatically prune blocks/layers of a target network by transferring the knowledge from a strong teacher in an end-to-end manner. To accomplish this, we first introduce a soft mask to scale the output of each block in the tar...

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Main Authors: Zongyue Wang, Shaohui Lin, Jiao Xie, Yangbin Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8918410/