Model compression techniques reduce size or compute cost of models through quantization, pruning, distillation, or architecture search.
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Model compression techniques reduce size or compute cost of models through quantization, pruning, distillation, or architecture search.
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A family of methods that make models lighter without always rebuilding them from scratch.
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