Neuron merging via inverse-activation regression for post-training compression of sigmoid neural networks

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.02559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As neural networks continue to grow in scale, model compression is becoming increasingly important for efficient inference under limited computational resources. Structured pruning methods remove neurons or channels that are estimated to be less important, but the removed units may still contain useful information. From the viewpoint of coarse-graining a trained network, it is valuable to ask which information should be retained when multiple neuronal degrees of freedom are consolidated. In this paper, we discuss cluster-based merging methods for compression of trained neural networks. In addition to a data-free contribution-weighted averaging method, we propose neuron-merging methods in which neuron responses are mapped back to the pre-activ