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Kernel Modulation: A Parameter-Efficient Method for Training Convolutional Neural Networks (2203.15297v1)

Published 29 Mar 2022 in cs.CV, cs.NE, and stat.ML

Abstract: Deep Neural Networks, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets), have achieved incredible success in many vision tasks, but they usually require millions of parameters for good accuracy performance. With increasing applications that use ConvNets, updating hundreds of networks for multiple tasks on an embedded device can be costly in terms of memory, bandwidth, and energy. Approaches to reduce this cost include model compression and parameter-efficient models that adapt a subset of network layers for each new task. This work proposes a novel parameter-efficient kernel modulation (KM) method that adapts all parameters of a base network instead of a subset of layers. KM uses lightweight task-specialized kernel modulators that require only an additional 1.4% of the base network parameters. With multiple tasks, only the task-specialized KM weights are communicated and stored on the end-user device. We applied this method in training ConvNets for Transfer Learning and Meta-Learning scenarios. Our results show that KM delivers up to 9% higher accuracy than other parameter-efficient methods on the Transfer Learning benchmark.

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