ADLS-Group9-2024-05-20

[ChengZhang-98]

• Add iterative pruning, saving of pruned models, huffman encoding and pruning search space

• Modify pruning pass and pruning metadata pass to allow for multiple layers of pruning masks

• Add channelwise pruning

• Add save and load interface passes for pruned networks

• Add huffman encoding and huffman decoding interface passes

• Add search space for iterative pruning

• Add software runner for sparsity metrics

• Add deep compression test file

• Add example config for iterative search

• Reformat files

• Update sphinx docs for huffman passes and pruned model pass

• Include changes to loading checkpoint

• Fix checkpoint load

• Fixed pune detach hook

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