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To Compress, or Not to Compress: Characterizing Deep Learning Model Compression for Embedded Inference

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  • Qin Qing
  • Jialong Yu
  • Jie Ren
  • Ling Gao
  • Hai Wang
  • Jie Zheng
  • Yansong Feng
  • Jianbin Fang
  • Zheng Wang
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Publication date11/12/2018
Host publicationThe 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA)
PublisherIEEE
Pages729-736
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)9781728111414
ISBN (print)9781728111421
<mark>Original language</mark>English
Event 2018 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Ubiquitous Computing & Communications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Social Computing & Networking, Sustainable Computing & Communications - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 11/12/201813/12/2018

Conference

Conference 2018 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Ubiquitous Computing & Communications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Social Computing & Networking, Sustainable Computing & Communications
Abbreviated title(ISPA/IUCC/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom)
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period11/12/1813/12/18

Conference

Conference 2018 IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Ubiquitous Computing & Communications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Social Computing & Networking, Sustainable Computing & Communications
Abbreviated title(ISPA/IUCC/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom)
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period11/12/1813/12/18

Abstract

The recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource constrained computing devices. Model compression techniques can address the computation issue of deep inference on embedded devices. This technique is highly attractive, as it does not rely on specialized hardware, or computation-offloading that is often infeasible due to privacy concerns or high latency. However, it remains unclear how model compression techniques perform across a wide range of DNNs. To design efficient embedded deep learning solutions, we need to understand their behaviors. This work develops a quantitative approach to characterize model compression techniques on a representative embedded deep learning architecture, the NVIDIA Jetson Tx2. We perform extensive experiments by considering 11 influential neural network architectures from the image classification and the natural language processing domains. We experimentally show that how two mainstream compression techniques, data quantization and pruning, perform on these network architectures and the implications of compression techniques to the model storage size, inference time, energy consumption and performance metrics. We demonstrate that there are opportunities to achieve fast deep inference on embedded systems, but one must carefully choose the compression settings. Our results provide insights on when and how to apply model compression techniques and guidelines for designing efficient embedded deep learning systems.

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