Search Results for author: Minghai Qin

Found 22 papers, 11 papers with code

Towards High-Quality and Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Gen Li, Jie Ji, Minghai Qin, Wei Niu, Bin Ren, Fatemeh Afghah, Linke Guo, Xiaolong Ma

To reconcile such, we propose a novel method for high-quality and efficient video resolution upscaling tasks, which leverages the spatial-temporal information to accurately divide video into chunks, thus keeping the number of chunks as well as the model size to minimum.

Video Super-Resolution

DISCO: Distributed Inference with Sparse Communications

no code implementations22 Feb 2023 Minghai Qin, Chao Sun, Jaco Hofmann, Dejan Vucinic

For example, each layer of a ResNet-50 model can be distributively inferred across two nodes with five times less data communications, almost half overall computations and half memory requirement for a single node, and achieve comparable accuracy to the original ResNet-50 model.

Distributed Computing Image Classification +5

Pruning Parameterization With Bi-Level Optimization for Efficient Semantic Segmentation on the Edge

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Changdi Yang, Pu Zhao, Yanyu Li, Wei Niu, Jiexiong Guan, Hao Tang, Minghai Qin, Bin Ren, Xue Lin, Yanzhi Wang

With the ever-increasing popularity of edge devices, it is necessary to implement real-time segmentation on the edge for autonomous driving and many other applications.

Autonomous Driving Segmentation +1

All-in-One: A Highly Representative DNN Pruning Framework for Edge Devices with Dynamic Power Management

no code implementations9 Dec 2022 Yifan Gong, Zheng Zhan, Pu Zhao, Yushu Wu, Chao Wu, Caiwen Ding, Weiwen Jiang, Minghai Qin, Yanzhi Wang

By re-configuring the model to the corresponding pruning ratio for a specific execution frequency (and voltage), we are able to achieve stable inference speed, i. e., keeping the difference in speed performance under various execution frequencies as small as possible.

Management

Self-Ensemble Protection: Training Checkpoints Are Good Data Protectors

1 code implementation22 Nov 2022 Sizhe Chen, Geng Yuan, Xinwen Cheng, Yifan Gong, Minghai Qin, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaolin Huang

In this paper, we uncover them by model checkpoints' gradients, forming the proposed self-ensemble protection (SEP), which is very effective because (1) learning on examples ignored during normal training tends to yield DNNs ignoring normal examples; (2) checkpoints' cross-model gradients are close to orthogonal, meaning that they are as diverse as DNNs with different architectures.

Peeling the Onion: Hierarchical Reduction of Data Redundancy for Efficient Vision Transformer Training

1 code implementation19 Nov 2022 Zhenglun Kong, Haoyu Ma, Geng Yuan, Mengshu Sun, Yanyue Xie, Peiyan Dong, Xin Meng, Xuan Shen, Hao Tang, Minghai Qin, Tianlong Chen, Xiaolong Ma, Xiaohui Xie, Zhangyang Wang, Yanzhi Wang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently obtained success in many applications, but their intensive computation and heavy memory usage at both training and inference time limit their generalization.

Data Level Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Vision Transformers

1 code implementation2 Nov 2022 Xuan Shen, Zhenglun Kong, Minghai Qin, Peiyan Dong, Geng Yuan, Xin Meng, Hao Tang, Xiaolong Ma, Yanzhi Wang

That is, there exists a subset of input image patches such that a ViT can be trained from scratch by using only this subset of patches and achieve similar accuracy to the ViTs trained by using all image patches.

Analogical Similarity Informativeness

Compiler-Aware Neural Architecture Search for On-Mobile Real-time Super-Resolution

1 code implementation25 Jul 2022 Yushu Wu, Yifan Gong, Pu Zhao, Yanyu Li, Zheng Zhan, Wei Niu, Hao Tang, Minghai Qin, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang

Instead of measuring the speed on mobile devices at each iteration during the search process, a speed model incorporated with compiler optimizations is leveraged to predict the inference latency of the SR block with various width configurations for faster convergence.

Neural Architecture Search SSIM +1

CHEX: CHannel EXploration for CNN Model Compression

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Zejiang Hou, Minghai Qin, Fei Sun, Xiaolong Ma, Kun Yuan, Yi Xu, Yen-Kuang Chen, Rong Jin, Yuan Xie, Sun-Yuan Kung

However, conventional pruning methods have limitations in that: they are restricted to pruning process only, and they require a fully pre-trained large model.

Image Classification Instance Segmentation +4

SPViT: Enabling Faster Vision Transformers via Soft Token Pruning

1 code implementation27 Dec 2021 Zhenglun Kong, Peiyan Dong, Xiaolong Ma, Xin Meng, Mengshu Sun, Wei Niu, Xuan Shen, Geng Yuan, Bin Ren, Minghai Qin, Hao Tang, Yanzhi Wang

Moreover, our framework can guarantee the identified model to meet resource specifications of mobile devices and FPGA, and even achieve the real-time execution of DeiT-T on mobile platforms.

Efficient ViTs Model Compression

Compact Multi-level Sparse Neural Networks with Input Independent Dynamic Rerouting

no code implementations21 Dec 2021 Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang, Fei Sun, Yen-Kuang Chen, Makan Fardad, Yanzhi Wang, Yuan Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT) devices.

Graph Attention

Load-balanced Gather-scatter Patterns for Sparse Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations20 Dec 2021 Fei Sun, Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Haoran Li, Junwen Luo, Zihao Zhao, Yen-Kuang Chen, Yuan Xie

Our experiments show that GS patterns consistently make better trade-offs between accuracy and computation efficiency compared to conventional structured sparse patterns.

Machine Translation speech-recognition +1

MEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Geng Yuan, Xiaolong Ma, Wei Niu, Zhengang Li, Zhenglun Kong, Ning Liu, Yifan Gong, Zheng Zhan, Chaoyang He, Qing Jin, Siyue Wang, Minghai Qin, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang, Sijia Liu, Xue Lin

Systematical evaluation on accuracy, training speed, and memory footprint are conducted, where the proposed MEST framework consistently outperforms representative SOTA works.

HFSP: A Hardware-friendly Soft Pruning Framework for Vision Transformers

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Zhenglun Kong, Peiyan Dong, Xiaolong Ma, Xin Meng, Mengshu Sun, Wei Niu, Bin Ren, Minghai Qin, Hao Tang, Yanzhi Wang

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult.

Image Classification Model Compression

Sanity Checks for Lottery Tickets: Does Your Winning Ticket Really Win the Jackpot?

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Xiaolong Ma, Geng Yuan, Xuan Shen, Tianlong Chen, Xuxi Chen, Xiaohan Chen, Ning Liu, Minghai Qin, Sijia Liu, Zhangyang Wang, Yanzhi Wang

Based on our analysis, we summarize a guideline for parameter settings in regards of specific architecture characteristics, which we hope to catalyze the research progress on the topic of lottery ticket hypothesis.

Effective Model Sparsification by Scheduled Grow-and-Prune Methods

1 code implementation ICLR 2022 Xiaolong Ma, Minghai Qin, Fei Sun, Zejiang Hou, Kun Yuan, Yi Xu, Yanzhi Wang, Yen-Kuang Chen, Rong Jin, Yuan Xie

It addresses the shortcomings of the previous works by repeatedly growing a subset of layers to dense and then pruning them back to sparse after some training.

Image Classification

Computation on Sparse Neural Networks: an Inspiration for Future Hardware

no code implementations24 Apr 2020 Fei Sun, Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang, Liu Liu, Yen-Kuang Chen, Yuan Xie

We show that for practically complicated problems, it is more beneficial to search large and sparse models in the weight dominated region.

A Unified DNN Weight Compression Framework Using Reweighted Optimization Methods

no code implementations12 Apr 2020 Tianyun Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Zheng Zhan, Shanglin Zhou, Minghai Qin, Fei Sun, Yen-Kuang Chen, Caiwen Ding, Makan Fardad, Yanzhi Wang

To address the large model size and intensive computation requirement of deep neural networks (DNNs), weight pruning techniques have been proposed and generally fall into two categories, i. e., static regularization-based pruning and dynamic regularization-based pruning.

Learning in the Frequency Domain

4 code implementations CVPR 2020 Kai Xu, Minghai Qin, Fei Sun, Yuhao Wang, Yen-Kuang Chen, Fengbo Ren

Experiment results show that learning in the frequency domain with static channel selection can achieve higher accuracy than the conventional spatial downsampling approach and meanwhile further reduce the input data size.

Instance Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Noisy Computations during Inference: Harmful or Helpful?

no code implementations26 Nov 2018 Minghai Qin, Dejan Vucinic

During inference, by injecting proper noise to signals in the neural networks, the robustness of adversarially-trained neural networks against black-box attacks has been further enhanced by 0. 5% and 1. 13% for two adversarially trained models for MNIST and CIFAR10, respectively.

Training Recurrent Neural Networks against Noisy Computations during Inference

no code implementations17 Jul 2018 Minghai Qin, Dejan Vucinic

One of the motivations for looking into this problem is to reduce the high power cost of conventional computing of neural network operations through the use of analog neuromorphic circuits.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

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