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Avoiding Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning through Elastic Weight ConsolidationEvilevitch, Anton, Ingram, Robert January 2021 (has links)
Image classification is an area of computer science with many areas of application. One key issue with using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for image classification is the phenomenon of Catastrophic Forgetting when training tasks sequentially (i.e Continual Learning). This is when the network quickly looses its performance on a given task after it has been trained on a new task. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) has previously been proposed as a remedy to lessen the effects of this phenomena through the use of a loss function which utilizes a Fisher Information Matrix. We want to explore and establish if this still holds true for modern network architectures, and to what extent this can be applied using today’s state- of- the- art networks. We focus on applying this approach on tasks within the same dataset. Our results indicate that the approach is feasible, and does in fact lessen the effect of Catastrophic Forgetting. These results are achieved, however, at the cost of much longer execution times and time spent tuning the hyper- parameters. / Bildklassifiering är ett område inom dataologi med många tillämpningsområden. En nyckelfråga när det gäller användingen av Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) för bildklassifiering är fenomenet Catastrophic Forgetting. Detta inträffar när ett nätverk tränas sekventiellt (m.a.o. Continual Learning). Detta innebär att nätverket snabbt tappar prestanda för en viss uppgift efter att den har tränats på en ny uppgift. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) har tidigare föreslagits som ett lindring genom applicering av en förlustfunktion som använder Fisher Information Matrix. Vi vill utforska och fastställa om detta fortfarande gäller för moderna nätverksarkitekturer, och i vilken utsträckning det kan tillämpas. Vi utför metoden på uppgifter inom en och samma dataset. Våra resultat visar att metoden är genomförbar och har en minskande effekt på Catastrophic Forgetting. Dessa resultat uppnås dock på bekostnad av längre körningstider och ökad tidsåtgång för val av hyperparametrar.
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AI on the Edge with CondenseNeXt: An Efficient Deep Neural Network for Devices with Constrained Computational ResourcesKalgaonkar, Priyank B. 08 1900 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Research work presented within this thesis propose a neoteric variant of deep convolutional neural network architecture, CondenseNeXt, designed specifically for ARM-based embedded computing platforms with constrained computational resources. CondenseNeXt is an improved version of CondenseNet, the baseline architecture whose roots can be traced back to ResNet. CondeseNeXt replaces group convolutions in CondenseNet with depthwise separable convolutions and introduces group-wise pruning, a model compression technique, to prune (remove) redundant and insignificant elements that either are irrelevant or do not affect performance of the network upon disposition. Cardinality, a new dimension to the existing spatial dimensions, and class-balanced focal loss function, a weighting factor inversely proportional to the number of samples, has been incorporated in order to relieve the harsh effects of pruning, into the design of CondenseNeXt’s algorithm. Furthermore, extensive analyses of this novel CNN architecture was performed on three benchmarking image datasets: CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet by deploying the trained weight on to an ARM-based embedded computing platform: NXP BlueBox 2.0, for real-time image classification. The outputs are observed in real-time in RTMaps Remote Studio’s console to verify the correctness of classes being predicted. CondenseNeXt achieves state-of-the-art image classification performance on three benchmark datasets including CIFAR-10 (4.79% top-1 error), CIFAR-100 (21.98% top-1 error) and ImageNet (7.91% single model, single crop top-5 error), and up to 59.98% reduction in forward FLOPs compared to CondenseNet. CondenseNeXt can also achieve a final trained model size of 2.9 MB, however at the cost of 2.26% in accuracy loss. Thus, performing image classification on ARM-Based computing platforms without requiring a CUDA enabled GPU support, with outstanding efficiency.
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AI on the Edge with CondenseNeXt: An Efficient Deep Neural Network for Devices with Constrained Computational ResourcesPriyank Kalgaonkar (10911822) 05 August 2021 (has links)
Research work presented within this thesis propose a neoteric variant of deep convolutional neural network architecture, CondenseNeXt, designed specifically for ARM-based embedded computing platforms with constrained computational resources. CondenseNeXt is an improved version of CondenseNet, the baseline architecture whose roots can be traced back to ResNet. CondeseNeXt replaces group convolutions in CondenseNet with depthwise separable convolutions and introduces group-wise pruning, a model compression technique, to prune (remove) redundant and insignificant elements that either are irrelevant or do not affect performance of the network upon disposition. Cardinality, a new dimension to the existing spatial dimensions, and class-balanced focal loss function, a weighting factor inversely proportional to the number of samples, has been incorporated in order to relieve the harsh effects of pruning, into the design of CondenseNeXt’s algorithm. Furthermore, extensive analyses of this novel CNN architecture was performed on three benchmarking image datasets: CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet by deploying the trained weight on to an ARM-based embedded computing platform: NXP BlueBox 2.0, for real-time image classification. The outputs are observed in real-time in RTMaps Remote Studio’s console to verify the correctness of classes being predicted. CondenseNeXt achieves state-of-the-art image classification performance on three benchmark datasets including CIFAR-10 (4.79% top-1 error), CIFAR-100 (21.98% top-1 error) and ImageNet (7.91% single model, single crop top-5 error), and up to 59.98% reduction in forward FLOPs compared to CondenseNet. CondenseNeXt can also achieve a final trained model size of 2.9 MB, however at the cost of 2.26% in accuracy loss. Thus, performing image classification on ARM-Based computing platforms without requiring a CUDA enabled GPU support, with outstanding efficiency.<br>
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