{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/empirical-evaluation-of-deep-learning-model","title":"Empirical Evaluation of Deep Learning Model Compression Techniques on the WaveNet Vocoder","arxiv_id":"2011.10469","date":"2020-11-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Sam Davis","Giuseppe Coccia","Sam Gooch","Julian Mack"],"abstract":"WaveNet is a state-of-the-art text-to-speech vocoder that remains challenging to deploy due to its autoregressive loop. In this work we focus on ways to accelerate the original WaveNet architecture directly, as opposed to modifying the architecture, such that the model can be deployed as part of a scalable text-to-speech system. We survey a wide variety of model compression techniques that are amenable to deployment on a range of hardware platforms. In particular, we compare different model sparsity methods and levels, and seven widely used precisions as targets for quantization; and are able to achieve models with a compression ratio of up to 13.84 without loss in audio fidelity compared to a dense, single-precision floating-point baseline. All techniques are implemented using existing open source deep learning frameworks and libraries to encourage their wider adoption.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10469v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.10469v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"empirical-evaluation-of-deep-learning-model","repo_url":"https://github.com/isadrtdinov/wavenet","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"model-compression","task_name":"Model Compression"},{"task_slug":"quantization","task_name":"Quantization"},{"task_slug":"text-to-speech","task_name":"Text to Speech"},{"task_slug":"text-to-speech-1","task_name":"text-to-speech"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"dilated-causal-convolution","method_name":"Dilated Causal Convolution"},{"method_slug":"mixture-of-logistic-distributions","method_name":"Mixture of Logistic Distributions"},{"method_slug":"wavenet","method_name":"WaveNet"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}