18247646. EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING (Rakuten Mobile, Inc.)
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EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Bailey Eccles of St. Andrews (GB)
Blesson Varghese of St. Andrews (GB)
Peter Kilpatrick of Belfast (GB)
EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18247646 titled 'EDGE-MASKING GUIDED NODE PRUNING
Original Abstract Submitted
Edge-masking guided node pruning is performed by masking at least one edge among a plurality of edges of a trained model to produce a masked model, initializing the masked model, training the masked model, detecting, from among a plurality of channels of the masked model, each channel among the plurality of channels including a set of edges among the plurality of edges, at least one zero channel in which each edge among the set of edges is masked; determining, from among a plurality of nodes of the masked model, each node corresponding to two channels among the plurality of channels, at least one removable node in which the corresponding two channels are zero channels; and pruning the masked model to remove the removable nodes from the masked model, resulting in a pruned model.
