PAODING: A High-fidelity Data-free Pruning Toolkit for Debloating Pre-trained Neural Networks
<|reference_start|>PAODING: A High-fidelity Data-free Pruning Toolkit for Debloating Pre-trained Neural Networks: We present PAODING, a toolkit to debloat pretrained neural network models through the lens of data-free pruning. To preserve the model fidelity, PAODING adopts an iterative process, which dynamically measures the effect of deleting a neuron to identify candidates that have the least impact to the output layer. Our evaluation shows that PAODING can significantly reduce the model size, generalize on different datasets and models, and meanwhile preserve the model fidelity in terms of test accuracy and adversarial robustness. PAODING is publicly available on PyPI via https://pypi.org/project/paoding-dl.<|reference_end|>
@article{meng2024paoding:,
    title={PAODING: A High-fidelity Data-free Pruning Toolkit for Debloating
  Pre-trained Neural Networks},
    author={Mark Huasong Meng, Hao Guan, Liuhuo Wan, Sin Gee Teo, Guangdong Bai,
  Jin Song Dong},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00074},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.00074},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.SE}
}