SqueezeNet: AlexNet-level accuracy with 50x fewer parameters and <0.5MB model size

February 24, 2016 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 arXiv.org

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Authors Forrest N. Iandola, Song Han, Matthew W. Moskewicz, Khalid Ashraf, William J. Dally, Kurt Keutzer arXiv ID 1602.07360 Category cs.CV: Computer Vision Cross-listed cs.AI Citations 8.2K Venue arXiv.org Repository https://github.com/DeepScale/SqueezeNet ⭐ 2210 Last Checked 1 month ago

Abstract

Recent research on deep neural networks has focused primarily on improving accuracy. For a given accuracy level, it is typically possible to identify multiple DNN architectures that achieve that accuracy level. With equivalent accuracy, smaller DNN architectures offer at least three advantages: (1) Smaller DNNs require less communication across servers during distributed training. (2) Smaller DNNs require less bandwidth to export a new model from the cloud to an autonomous car. (3) Smaller DNNs are more feasible to deploy on FPGAs and other hardware with limited memory. To provide all of these advantages, we propose a small DNN architecture called SqueezeNet. SqueezeNet achieves AlexNet-level accuracy on ImageNet with 50x fewer parameters. Additionally, with model compression techniques we are able to compress SqueezeNet to less than 0.5MB (510x smaller than AlexNet). The SqueezeNet architecture is available for download here: https://github.com/DeepScale/SqueezeNet