Testing RadiX-Nets: Advances in Viable Sparse Topologies

6 Nov 2023  ·  Kevin Kwak, Zack West, Hayden Jananthan, Jeremy Kepner ·

The exponential growth of data has sparked computational demands on ML research and industry use. Sparsification of hyper-parametrized deep neural networks (DNNs) creates simpler representations of complex data. Past research has shown that some sparse networks achieve similar performance as dense ones, reducing runtime and storage. RadiX-Nets, a subgroup of sparse DNNs, maintain uniformity which counteracts their lack of neural connections. Generation, independent of a dense network, yields faster asymptotic training and removes the need for costly pruning. However, little work has been done on RadiX-Nets, making testing challenging. This paper presents a testing suite for RadiX-Nets in TensorFlow. We test RadiX-Net performance to streamline processing in scalable models, revealing relationships between network topology, initialization, and training behavior. We also encounter "strange models" that train inconsistently and to lower accuracy while models of similar sparsity train well.

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