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Yixia Zhang1, Ferrante Neri1,2, Xilu Wang1

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We developed Evolutionary Channel Pruning for StyleGANs (ECP-StyleGANs) to compress generative models. This method significantly reduces computational demands for StyleGANs, enabling efficient image synthesis on resource-constrained devices.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), particularly StyleGAN and StyleGAN2, excel at high-quality image synthesis.
  • Large model sizes and high computational costs (FLOPs) limit GAN deployment on edge devices and mobile platforms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose Evolutionary Channel Pruning for StyleGANs (ECP-StyleGANs), an algorithm for compressing StyleGAN and StyleGAN2.
  • To maintain competitive image quality while reducing model complexity for real-time applications.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing evolutionary algorithms to iteratively refine binary masks for convolutional channel pruning.
  • Employing fitness functions that balance model complexity and generation quality.
  • Encoding pruning configurations and applying selection, crossover, and mutation operations.

Main Results:

  • Achieved approximately a 4x reduction in FLOPs and parameters for StyleGAN and StyleGAN2 models.
  • Maintained visual fidelity with only a slight increase in Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) compared to un-pruned models.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of ECP-StyleGANs in compressing GANs for resource-constrained environments.

Conclusions:

  • ECP-StyleGANs offers an effective approach to compress large generative models like StyleGAN.
  • The study frames generative AI pruning as a multi-objective optimization task, balancing efficiency and quality.
  • This research facilitates the deployment of advanced GANs on edge devices and in resource-limited settings.