README.md

PyTorch Code for 'E2-Train: Training State-of-the-art CNNs with Over 80% Less Energy'

Introduction

PyTorch Implementation of our NeurIPS 2019 paper "E2-Train: Training State-of-the-art CNNs with Over 80% Less Energy".

This paper attempts to explore how to conduct more energy-efficient training of CNNs, so as to enable on-device training? We strive to reduce the energy cost during training, by dropping unnecessary computations, from three complementary levels: stochastic mini-batch dropping on the data level; selective layer update on the model level; and sign prediction for low-cost, low-precision back-propagation, on the algorithm level.

PyTorch Model

• ResNet
• MobileNet

Dependencies

Python 3.7

• PyTorch 1.0.1
• CUDA 9.0
• numpy
• matplotlib

Running E2-Train

• ResNet74

python main_all.py train cifar10_rnn_gate_74

Citation

If you find this code useful, please cite the following paper:

@article{E^2_train,
    title = {E2-Train: Training State-of-the-art CNNs with Over 80% Less Energy},
    author = {Wang, Yue and Jiang, Ziyu and Chen, Xiaohan and Xu, Pengfei and Zhao, Yang and Wang, Zhangyang and Lin, Yingyan},
    booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32},
    editor = {S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett},
    year = {2019}
    }

Acknowledgment

We would like to thanks the arthor of SkipNet. Our code implementation is highly inspired by this work.