SoftSkip: Empowering Multi-Modal Dynamic Pruning for Single-Stage Referring Comprehension
International Multimedia Conference(2022)
Abstract
ABSTRACTSupporting real-time referring expression comprehension (REC) on pervasive devices is an important capability for human-AI collaborative tasks. Model pruning techniques, applied to DNN models, can enable real-time execution even on resource-constrained devices. However, existing pruning strategies are designed principally for uni-modal applications, and suffer a significant loss of accuracy when applied to REC tasks that require fusion of textual and visual inputs. We thus present a multi-modal pruning model, LGMDP, which uses language as a pivot to dynamically and judiciously select the relevant computational blocks that need to be executed. LGMDP also introduces a new SoftSkip mechanism, whereby 'skipped' visual scales are not completely eliminated but approximated with minimal additional computation. Experimental evaluation, using 3 benchmark REC datasets and an embedded device implementation, shows that LGMDP can achieve 33% latency savings, with an accuracy loss 0.5% - 2%.
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