arXiv:2603.17275cs.CVcs.AI2026-03

动态剪枝3D CNN,边端设备节能1.47倍。

DANCE: Dynamic 3D CNN Pruning: Joint Frame, Channel, and Feature Adaptation for Energy Efficiency on the Edge

  • 根据输入动态剪枝帧、通道和特征,实现细粒度能效优化。
  • 在Jetson Nano上提速1.37倍,骁龙8 Gen 1上提速2.22倍。
  • 适合部署于资源受限的边缘视频处理场景。

现代卷积神经网络在视频与图像处理中表现优异,但无法动态适应输入样本的计算复杂度,难以最小化能耗。本文提出DANCE,一种针对3D CNN的细粒度、输入感知的动态剪枝框架,可在几乎不损失性能的前提下最大化能效。该方法分两步:首先通过激活变异放大(AVA)重训练模型,增强神经元激活幅度的跨层方差,提升剪枝决策能力;其次通过轻量级激活控制器网络(AAP),基于首层输出统计,动态剪枝各层的帧、通道和特征。该方法通过引入卷积层内稀疏性,显著降低乘加操作(MAC)和内存访问。在NVIDIA Jetson Nano GPU与高通骁龙8 Gen 1平台上的硬件验证显示,分别实现1.37倍和2.22倍加速,相比现有最优方案能效提升最高达1.47倍。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are workhorses for video and image processing, but fail to adapt to the computational complexity of input samples in a dynamic manner to minimize energy consumption. In this research, we propose DANCE, a fine-grained, input-aware, dynamic pruning framework for 3D CNNs to maximize power efficiency with negligible to zero impact on performance. In the proposed two-step approach, the first step is called activation variability amplification (AVA), and the 3D CNN model is retrained to increase the variance of the magnitude of neuron activations across the network in this step, facilitating pruning decisions across diverse CNN input scenarios. In the second step, called adaptive activation pruning (AAP), a lightweight activation controller network is trained to dynamically prune frames, channels, and features of 3D convolutional layers of the network (different for each layer), based on statistics of the outputs of the first layer of the network. Our method achieves substantial savings in multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations and memory accesses by introducing sparsity within convolutional layers. Hardware validation on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano GPU and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform demonstrates respective speedups of 1.37X and 2.22X, achieving up to 1.47X higher energy efficiency compared to the state of the art.

3D CNN动态剪枝边缘计算能效优化

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