1 code implementation • 10 Dec 2019 • Stephen Casper, Xavier Boix, Vanessa D'Amario, Ling Guo, Martin Schrimpf, Kasper Vinken, Gabriel Kreiman
We identify two distinct types of "frivolous" units that proliferate when the network's width is increased: prunable units which can be dropped out of the network without significant change to the output and redundant units whose activities can be expressed as a linear combination of others.