Fine-tuning Auto is a feature of the TensorFlow Pruning Toolkit that allows users to automatically fine-tune their models for pruning. This guide will provide an overview of the process and key concepts.

Overview

Fine-tuning Auto is designed to help users achieve optimal pruning results with minimal effort. It automates the process of finding the best pruning schedule and parameters for a given model.

Key Concepts

  • Pruning: The process of removing unnecessary weights from a neural network to reduce its size and computational requirements.
  • Fine-tuning: The process of adjusting the weights of a pre-trained model to improve its performance on a new task.
  • Auto: The automated process of finding the best pruning schedule and parameters.

Getting Started

  1. Install TensorFlow Pruning Toolkit: Make sure you have TensorFlow and the Pruning Toolkit installed. You can find installation instructions here.
  2. Prepare Your Model: Load your model and make sure it is compatible with the Pruning Toolkit.
  3. Run Fine-tuning Auto: Use the tfmot.sparsity.keras.FineTuningAuto class to run the fine-tuning process.

Example

import tensorflow as tf
from tfmot.sparsity.keras import PruningParams, FineTuningAuto

# Load your model
model = ...

# Define pruning parameters
pruning_params = PruningParams(
    pruning_schedule=tfmot.sparsity.keras.PolynomialDecay(initial_sparsity=0.0,
                                                         final_sparsity=0.5,
                                                         begin_step=0,
                                                         end_step=10000))

# Create Fine-tuning Auto object
fine_tuning_auto = FineTuningAuto(pruning_params=pruning_params)

# Fine-tune the model
model = fine_tuning_auto.fine_tune(model, x_train, y_train, epochs=10)

Further Reading

For more detailed information and examples, please refer to the TensorFlow Pruning Toolkit documentation.

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Here is an example of a pruned neural network:

neural_network_pruning