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Neural network compression via learnable wavelet transforms
Moritz Wolter, Shaohui Lin, Angela Yao
Wavelets are well known for data compression, yet have rarely been applied to the compression of neural networks. This paper shows how the fast wavelet transform can be used to compress linear layers in neural networks. Linear layers still occupy a significant portion of the parameters in recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Through our method, we can learn both the wavelet bases and corresponding coefficients to efficiently represent the linear layers of RNNs. Our wavelet compressed RNNs have significantly fewer parameters yet still perform competitively with the state-of-the-art on synthetic and real-world RNN benchmarks. Wavelet optimization adds basis flexibility, without large numbers of extra weights. Source code is available at https://github.com/v0lta/Wavelet-network-compression.
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