LRP-GUS: A Visual Based Data Reduction Algorithm for Neural Networks

Deriving general rules to estimate a neural network sample complexity is a difficult problem. Therefore, in practice, datasets are often large to ensure sufficient class samples representation. This comes at the cost of high power consumption and long training time. This paper introduces a novel data reduction method for Deep Learning classifiers, called LRP-GUS, focusing on visual features. The idea behind LRP-GUS is to reduce the size of our training dataset by exploiting visual features and their relevance. The proposed technique is tested on the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets. We evaluate the method using compression rates, accuracy and F-1 scores per class. For instance, our method achieves compression rates of 96.10% for MNIST and 75.94% for Fashion-MNIST, at the cost of a drop of 3% test accuracy for both datasets.