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VarGNet: Variable Group Convolutional Neural Network for Efficient Embedded Computing

12 Jul 2019arXiv:1907.05653archive 2025-07-28

Qian Zhang, Jianjun Li, Meng Yao, Liangchen Song, Helong Zhou, Zhichao Li, Wenming Meng, Xuezhi Zhang, Guoli Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel network design mechanism for efficient embedded computing. Inspired by the limited computing patterns, we propose to fix the number of channels in a group convolution, instead of the existing practice that fixing the total group numbers. Our solution based network, named Variable Group Convolutional Network (VarGNet), can be optimized easier on hardware side, due to the more unified computing schemes among the layers. Extensive experiments on various vision tasks, including classification, detection, pixel-wise parsing and face recognition, have demonstrated the practical value of our VarGNet.

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