CHAMP: Coherent Hardware-Aware Magnitude Pruning of Integrated Photonic Neural Networks
Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha, Krishnendu Chakrabarty · 2022
We propose a novel hardware-aware magnitude pruning technique for coherent photonic neural networks. The proposed technique can prune 99.45% of network parameters and reduce the static power consumption by 98.23% with a negligible accuracy loss.