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Speculative Backpropagation for CNN Parallel Training
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DOI：10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3040849.png)
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The parallel learning in neural networks can greatly shorten the training time. Its prior efforts were mostly limited to distributing inputs to multiple computing engines. It is because the gradient descent algorithm in the neural network training is inherently sequential. This paper proposes a novel CNN parallel training method for image recognition. It overcomes the sequential property of the gradient descent and enables the parallel training with the speculative backpropagation. We found that the Softmax and ReLU outcomes in the forward propagation for the same labels are likely to be very similar. This characteristic makes it possible to perform the forward and backward propagation simultaneously. We implemented the proposed parallel model with CNNs in both software and hardware, and evaluated its performance. The parallel training reduces the training time by 34% in CIFAR-100 without the loss of the prediction accuracy compared to the sequential training. In many cases, it even improves the accuracy.
Keywords:
Training
Backpropagation
Neurons
Computational modeling
Parallel processing
Hardware
Biological neural networks
Deep learning
parallel training
speculative backpropagation
training accelerator
FPGA
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