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Efficient Training Acceleration via Sample-Wise Dynamic Probabilistic Pruning

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Feicheng Huang
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Wenbo Zhou
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Yue Huang
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Xinghao Ding *
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2024.3484289delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Data pruning is observed to substantially reduce the computation and memory costs of model training. Previous studies have primarily focused on constructing a series of coresets with representative samples by leveraging predefined rules for evaluating sample importance. Learning dynamics and selection bias, however, are rarely being considered. In this letter, a novel Sample-wise Dynamic Probabilistic Pruning (SwDPP) method is proposed for efficient training. Specifically, instead of hard-pruning the samples that are considered easy or well-learned, we formulate the pruning process as a probabilistic sampling problem. This is achieved by a carefully-designed soft-selection mechanism, which constantly expresses learning dynamics and relaxes selection bias. Moreover, to alleviate the accuracy drop under high pruning rates, we introduce a probabilistic Mixup strategy for information diversity maintenance. Extensive experiments conducted on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and Tiny-ImageNet show that, the proposed SwDPP outperforms current state-of-the-art methods across various pruning settings. Notably, on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, SwDPP achieves lossless training acceleration using only 70% of the data per epoch.
Keywords:
Training
Probabilistic logic
Data models
Computational modeling
Accuracy
Vectors
Predictive models
Optimization
Heuristic algorithms
Decision making
Data pruning
efficient training
learning dynamics
probabilistic sampling
selection bias

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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine cover
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
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xiamen university
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Papers: 3.8W
Citations: 67