Pruning the Unimportant or Redundant Filters? Synergy Makes Better

Filter pruning is a hot topic in convolutional neural network compression due to its friendliness to hardware implementation. Most pruning methods prune filters according to their importance, i.e., removing the filters that have little effect on the final performance of the network. While from another perspective, some recent works propose to prune upon the redundancy of filters. Filters pruned in this way usually have non-negligible effects on...