Network Pruning

Network Pruning is a popular approach to reduce a heavy network to obtain a light-weight form by removing redundancy in the heavy network. In this approach, a complex over-parameterized network is first trained, then pruned based on come criterions, and finally fine-tuned to achieve comparable performance with reduced parameters.

<span class="description-source">Source: Ensemble Knowledge Distillation for Learning Improved and Efficient Networks </span>