Scalpel

This is a PyTorch implementation of the Scalpel. Node pruning for five benchmark networks and SIMD-aware weight pruning for LeNet-300-100 and LeNet-5 is included.

Node Pruning

Here is the results for node pruning:

* <# of nodes after pruning>/<# of original nodes>

MNIST

I use the dataset reader provided by torchvision.

LeNet-300-100

To run the pruning, please run:

$ cd <ROOT>/MNIST/
$ bash prune.node.lenet_300_100.sh

This script includes following commands:

# original training -- 98.48%
python main.py

# stage 0 -- 60 13
python main.py --prune node --stage 0 \
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.best_origin.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.001 --penalty 0.0002 --lr-epochs 30

# stage 1 -- 120 26
python main.py --prune node --stage 1 \
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.node.0.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.001 --penalty 0.0003 --lr-epochs 30

# stage 2 -- 139 36
python main.py --prune node --stage 2 \
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.node.1.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.001 --penalty 0.0010 --lr-epochs 30

# stage 3 retrain -- 98.54%
python main.py --prune node --stage 3 --retrain \
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.node.2.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.1 --lr-epochs 20

It first trains the original model and, then, applies node pruning (stage 0-2). After node pruning, the model will be retrained to retain the original accuracy (stage 3).

LeNet-5

To run the pruning:

$ cd <ROOT>/MNIST/
$ bash prune.node.lenet_5.sh

It first trains the original model and then apply node pruning. The pre-pruned model can be download here. Download it and put it in the directory of <ROOT>/MNIST/saved_models/. To evaluate the pruned model:

$ python main.py --prune node --arch LeNet_5 --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_5.prune.node.5.pth.tar --evaluate

CIFAR-10

The training dataset can be downloaded here. Download and uncompress it to <ROOT>/CIFAR_10/data/.

ConvNet

Tor run the pruning:

$ cd <ROOT>/CIFAR_10/
$ bash prune.node.convnet.sh

Pre-pruned model can be downloaded here. Download it and put it in the directory of <ROOT>/CIFAR_10/saved_models/. To evaluate the pruned model:

$ python main.py --prune node --pretrained saved_models/ConvNet.prune.node.4.pth.tar --evaluate

Network-in-Network (NIN)

Tor run the pruning:

$ cd <ROOT>/CIFAR_10/
$ bash prune.node.nin.sh

Pre-pruned model can be downloaded here. Download it and put it in the directory of <ROOT>/CIFAR_10/saved_models/. To evaluate the pruned model:

$ python main.py --prune node --arch NIN --pretrained saved_models/NIN.prune.node.7.pth.tar --evaluate

ImageNet

Tor run the pruning:

$ cd <ROOT>/ImageNet/
$ bash prune.node.alexnet.sh

Pre-pruned model can be downloaded here. Download it and put it in the directory of <ROOT>/ImageNet/saved_models/. To evaluate the pruned model:

$ python main.py --prune node --pretrained saved_models/AlexNet.prune.node.8.pth.tar --evaluate

SIMD-Aware Weight Pruning

SIMD-aware weight pruning is provided in ./SIMD_Aware_MNIST. LeNet-300-100 and LeNet-5 on MNIST is tested. The example of LeNet-300-100 can be executed by

$ cd ./SIMD_Aware_MNIST/
$ bash prune.simd.lenet_300_100.sh

It will first train the network and then perform the SIMD-aware weight pruning with group width set to 8. It can remove 92.0% of the weights. The script of prune.simd.lenet_300_100.sh contains following instructions:

# original training -- 98.48%
python main.py

# 60.6% pruned
python main.py --prune simd --stage 0 --width 8\
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.best_origin.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.01 --lr-epochs 20 --threshold 0.04

# 72.6% pruned
python main.py --prune simd --stage 1 --width 8\
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.simd.0.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.01 --lr-epochs 20 --threshold 0.05

# 82.4% pruned
python main.py --prune simd --stage 2 --width 8\
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.simd.1.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.01 --lr-epochs 20 --threshold 0.06

# 88.7% pruned
python main.py --prune simd --stage 3 --width 8\
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.simd.2.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.01 --lr-epochs 20 --threshold 0.07

# 92.0% pruned
python main.py --prune simd --stage 4 --width 8\
    --pretrained saved_models/LeNet_300_100.prune.simd.3.pth.tar \
    --lr 0.01 --lr-epochs 20 --threshold 0.08

For LeNet-5, the experiment can be performed by run

$ bash prune.simd.lenet_5.sh

It will remove 96.8% of the weights in LeNet-5.

SIMD-aware weight pruning for other benchmark networks are under construction.

Citation

Please cite Scalpel in your publications if it helps your research:

@inproceedings{yu2017scalpel,
  title={Scalpel: Customizing DNN Pruning to the Underlying Hardware Parallelism},
  author={Yu, Jiecao and Lukefahr, Andrew and Palframan, David and Dasika, Ganesh and Das, Reetuparna and Mahlke, Scott},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture},
  pages={548--560},
  year={2017},
  organization={ACM}
}