Efficient Compression of Overparameterized Deep Models through Low-Dimensional Learning Dynamics

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Autores principales: Kwon, Soo Min, Zhang, Zekai, Song, Dogyoon, Balzano, Laura, Qu, Qing
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Publicado: 2023
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author Kwon, Soo Min
Zhang, Zekai
Song, Dogyoon
Balzano, Laura
Qu, Qing
author_facet Kwon, Soo Min
Zhang, Zekai
Song, Dogyoon
Balzano, Laura
Qu, Qing
contents Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive resources to train. In this work, we present a novel approach for compressing overparameterized models, developed through studying their learning dynamics. We observe that for many deep models, updates to the weight matrices occur within a low-dimensional invariant subspace. For deep linear models, we demonstrate that their principal components are fitted incrementally within a small subspace, and use these insights to propose a compression algorithm for deep linear networks that involve decreasing the width of their intermediate layers. We empirically evaluate the effectiveness of our compression technique on matrix recovery problems. Remarkably, by using an initialization that exploits the structure of the problem, we observe that our compressed network converges faster than the original network, consistently yielding smaller recovery errors. We substantiate this observation by developing a theory focused on deep matrix factorization. Finally, we empirically demonstrate how our compressed model has the potential to improve the utility of deep nonlinear models. Overall, our algorithm improves the training efficiency by more than 2x, without compromising generalization.
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spellingShingle Efficient Compression of Overparameterized Deep Models through Low-Dimensional Learning Dynamics
Kwon, Soo Min
Zhang, Zekai
Song, Dogyoon
Balzano, Laura
Qu, Qing
Machine Learning
Overparameterized models have proven to be powerful tools for solving various machine learning tasks. However, overparameterization often leads to a substantial increase in computational and memory costs, which in turn requires extensive resources to train. In this work, we present a novel approach for compressing overparameterized models, developed through studying their learning dynamics. We observe that for many deep models, updates to the weight matrices occur within a low-dimensional invariant subspace. For deep linear models, we demonstrate that their principal components are fitted incrementally within a small subspace, and use these insights to propose a compression algorithm for deep linear networks that involve decreasing the width of their intermediate layers. We empirically evaluate the effectiveness of our compression technique on matrix recovery problems. Remarkably, by using an initialization that exploits the structure of the problem, we observe that our compressed network converges faster than the original network, consistently yielding smaller recovery errors. We substantiate this observation by developing a theory focused on deep matrix factorization. Finally, we empirically demonstrate how our compressed model has the potential to improve the utility of deep nonlinear models. Overall, our algorithm improves the training efficiency by more than 2x, without compromising generalization.
title Efficient Compression of Overparameterized Deep Models through Low-Dimensional Learning Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05061