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NTK-LC

This repository contains code to reproduces the results in the paper "'Lossless' Compression of Deep Neural Networks: A High-dimensional Neural Tangent Kernel Approach" (NTK-LC) ¹.

About the code

• code/compression contains

  • code/compression/mnist (Experiment 2.1)
    • mnist_origin.py for classification with original dense neural network on MNIST dataset.
    • performance_match.py for classification with compressed neural network utlizing the proposed NTK*LC approach on MNIST dataset.
    • mnist_magnitude_pruning.py for classification with compressed neural network by magnitude pruning.
  • code/compression/cifar10 (Experiment 2.2)
    • vgg_net_cifar10.py for defining VGG19 suitable for CIFAR10
    • vgg_train.py for training VGG19 defined in vgg_net_cifar10.py on CIFAR10, and get parameters of convolution layers for feature extraction.
    • performance_origin.py for classification performance of the original dense neural network on CIFAR10.
    • performance_two.py for classification performance of the compressed neural network (compressed by our NTK-LC algorithm) on CIFAR10.
    • cifar10_magnitude_pruning.py for classification with compressed neural network by magnitude pruning.

• code/spectral_characteristics (Experiment 1) contains

  • tilde_CK.py for verifying the consistency of spectrum distribution for theoretical (calculated with our theorem results) and practical (calculated by the original definition) conjugate kernel(CK).
  • plot_eigen.py for ploting eigenvalues and eigenvectors for a given matrix.

• code/equation_solve contains

  • solve_equation.py for solving equatiosn to define parameters of activation functions

• code/expect_cal contains

  • expect_calculate.py for expect calculated by numerical integration
  • expect_calculate_math.py for expect calculated with analytical expression

• code/model_define contains

  • model.py for model defining

• code/utils contains

  • activation_numpy.py for activations defined with numpy
  • activation_tensor.py for activations defined with torch
  • data_prepare.py for data preparation, containing data sampled from MNIST/CIFAR10 and generated GMM data
  • utils.py for some more utils

Dependencies

You can run following bash command to install packages used in this repository

pip install requirments.txt

or you can install follwing basic packages yourself:

• Python: tested with version 3.8.13
• Numpy and Scipy
• Matplotlib for visulazation
• Pytorch: tested with version 1.12.0
• Pandas for data record

Contact information

• Zhenyu LIAO

  • Assistant Professor at EIC, Huazhong University of Science and Tech
  • Website: https://zhenyu-liao.github.io/
  • E-mail: zhenyu_liao@hust.edu.cn

• Linyu Gu

  • Master at EIC, Huazhong University of Science and Tech
  • E-mail: gulingyu@hust.edu.cn

• Yongqi Du

  • Master at EIC, Huazhong University of Science and Tech
  • E-mail: yongqi_du@hust.edu.cn

References