Random Matrix Theory

Pruning Deep Neural Networks via a Combination of the Marchenko-Pastur Distribution and Regularization
Pruning Deep Neural …

Context

We use Random Matrix Theory and regularization to prune deep neural networks, achieving state-of-the-art results on ImageNet with Vision Transformers. We also provide theoretical justification for our approach.

Results of our RMT-based pruning approach on Vision Transformer (ViT) base-16 model trained on ImageNet

Performance of our RMT-based pruning method on ViT-Base-16 model trained on …