가속 회로에 적합한 CNN의 Conv-XP 가지치기.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show high performance in the computer vision, but they require an enormous amount of operations, making them unsuitable for some resource- or energy-starving environments like the embedded environments. To overcome this problem, there have been much research on accelerators or pruning of CNNs. The previous pruning schemes have not considered the architecture of CNN accelerators, so the accelerators for the pruned CNNs have some inefficiency. This paper proposes a new pruning scheme, Conv-XP, which considers the architecture of CNN accelerators. In Conv-XP, the pruning is performed following the ‘X’ or ‘+’ shape. The Conv-XP scheme induces a simple architecture of the CNN accelerators. The experimental results show that the Conv-XP scheme does not degrade the accuracy of CNNs, and that the accelerator area can be reduced by 12.8%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]