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Main Authors: Sun, Peng, Jiang, Yi, Lin, Tao
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14669
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author Sun, Peng
Jiang, Yi
Lin, Tao
author_facet Sun, Peng
Jiang, Yi
Lin, Tao
contents Data, the seminal opportunity and challenge in modern machine learning, currently constrains the scalability of representation learning and impedes the pace of model evolution. In this work, we investigate the efficiency properties of data from both optimization and generalization perspectives. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals an unexpected finding: for a given task, utilizing a publicly available, task- and architecture-agnostic model (referred to as the `prior model' in this paper) can effectively produce efficient data. Building on this insight, we propose the Representation Learning Accelerator (\algopt), which promotes the formation and utilization of efficient data, thereby accelerating representation learning. Utilizing a ResNet-18 pre-trained on CIFAR-10 as a prior model to inform ResNet-50 training on ImageNet-1K reduces computational costs by 50% while maintaining the same accuracy as the model trained with the original BYOL, which requires 100% cost. Our code is available at: \url{https://github.com/LINs-lab/ReLA}.
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spellingShingle Efficiency for Free: Ideal Data Are Transportable Representations
Sun, Peng
Jiang, Yi
Lin, Tao
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data, the seminal opportunity and challenge in modern machine learning, currently constrains the scalability of representation learning and impedes the pace of model evolution. In this work, we investigate the efficiency properties of data from both optimization and generalization perspectives. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals an unexpected finding: for a given task, utilizing a publicly available, task- and architecture-agnostic model (referred to as the `prior model' in this paper) can effectively produce efficient data. Building on this insight, we propose the Representation Learning Accelerator (\algopt), which promotes the formation and utilization of efficient data, thereby accelerating representation learning. Utilizing a ResNet-18 pre-trained on CIFAR-10 as a prior model to inform ResNet-50 training on ImageNet-1K reduces computational costs by 50% while maintaining the same accuracy as the model trained with the original BYOL, which requires 100% cost. Our code is available at: \url{https://github.com/LINs-lab/ReLA}.
title Efficiency for Free: Ideal Data Are Transportable Representations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14669