Graph metanetworks accelerate compression across different neural network architectures

CrossGMN predicts target-network weights from a trained source and a target initialization while respecting each network’s permutation symmetries.

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Adir Dayan · Yam Eitan · Haggai Maron

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · NVIDIA Research

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Dayan, Eitan and Maron introduce CrossGMN, a metanetwork that jointly represents a trained source model and a differently shaped target model as a connected graph.

The authors reformulated cross-architecture weight transformation as a two-input operation.

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From NVIDIA Research and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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CrossGMN maps weights between different neural architectures while respecting permutation symmetries, accelerating knowledge distillation by up to 8.89x.

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