Mind the Approximation: Fisher-Weighted SVD Compression for ViTs
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arXiv:2609.07155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model compression is key to mitigate deployment challenges of ever growing machine learning models. In this area of research, singular value decomposition (SVD)-based compression offers a compelling trade-off between computational efficiency and model accuracy. Fisher-weighted SVD in particular provides principled, loss-aware compression. However, we find that improving the fidelity of Fisher approximation used in the compression is poorly predictive of post-compression accuracy for Vision Transformers (ViTs). Motivated by this observation, we
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.07155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model compression is key to mitigate deployment challenges of ever growing machine learning models.
- In this area of research, singular value decomposition (SVD)-based compression offers a compelling trade-off between computational efficiency and model accuracy.
- Fisher-weighted SVD in particular provides principled, loss-aware compression.
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