Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are getting more and more complex, needing enormous computing resources and energy. In this paper, we propose methods for conditional computation in the context of image classification that allows a CNN to dynamically use its channels and layers conditioned on the input. To this end, we combine light-weight gating modules that can make binary decisions without causing much computational overhead. We argue, that combining the recently proposed channel gating mechanism with layer gating can significantly reduce the computational cost of large CNNs. Using discrete optimization algorithms, the gating modules are made aware of the context in which they are used and decide whether a particular channel and/or a particular layer will be executed. This results in neural networks that adapt their own topology conditioned on the input image. Experiments using the CIFAR10 and MNIST datasets show how competitive results in image classification with respect to accuracy can be achieved while saving up to 50% computational resources.
Watch our new MOOC in German about hate and fake in the Internet ("Trolle, Hass und Fake-News: Wie können wir das Internet retten?") on openHPI (link).
Our work on Measuring and Comparing Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms for Robust Visualisation of Dynamic Text Collections will be presented at CHIIR 2021.
I added some photos from my trip to Hildesheim.
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