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Pruning and Deep Compression: retraining, weight sharing and entropy coding

Pruned small-magnitude trained connections and retrained survivors, then combined pruning with quantized weight sharing/codebook retraining and Huffman coding to reduce stored model size.

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Pruned small-magnitude trained connections and retrained survivors, then combined pruning with quantized weight sharing/codebook retraining and Huffman coding to reduce stored model size.

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Bundles the2015 pruning precursor and compression pipeline with distinct four/three-author bylines. Inherits earlier pruning/quantization/entropy-coding techniques; no invention of all pruning. Storage savings and retained accuracy are model/evaluation-specific, not guaranteed latency or energy reduction on dense hardware. First preprint title differs from laterDeep Compression title.

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Song Han; Jeff Pool; John Tran; William J. Dally; Huizi Mao

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Pruning and Deep Compression: retraining, weight sharing and entropy coding

Pruned small-magnitude trained connections and retrained survivors, then combined pruning with quantized weight sharing/codebook retraining and Huffman coding to reduce stored model size.

Scientific scope

Bundles the2015 pruning precursor and compression pipeline with distinct four/three-author bylines. Inherits earlier pruning/quantization/entropy-coding techniques; no invention of all pruning. Storage savings and retained accuracy are model/evaluation-specific, not guaranteed latency or energy reduction on dense hardware. First preprint title differs from laterDeep Compression title.

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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.

People and systems

Song Han; Jeff Pool; John Tran; William J. Dally; Huizi Mao

Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.

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