动态卷积：利用空间稀疏性进行更快的推理

现代的卷积神经网络对图像中的每个像素应用相同的操作。但是，并非所有图像区域都同样重要。..

Dynamic Convolutions: Exploiting Spatial Sparsity for Faster Inference

Modern convolutional neural networks apply the same operations on every pixel in an image. However, not all image regions are equally important.To address this inefficiency, we propose a method to dynamically apply convolutions conditioned on the input image. We introduce a residual block where a small gating branch learns which spatial positions should be evaluated. These discrete gating decisions are trained end-to-end using the Gumbel-Softmax trick, in combination with a sparsity criterion. Our experiments on CIFAR, ImageNet and MPII show that our method has better focus on the region of interest and better accuracy than existing methods, at a lower computational complexity. Moreover, we provide an efficient CUDA implementation of our dynamic convolutions using a gather-scatter approach, achieving a significant improvement in inference speed with MobileNetV2 residual blocks. On human pose estimation, a task that is inherently spatially sparse, the processing speed is increased by 60% with no loss in accuracy.