The recent advances in deep learning (DL) have been accelerated by access to large-scale data and compute. These large-scale resources have been used to train progressively larger models which are resource intensive in terms of compute, data, energy, and carbon emissions. These costs are becoming a new type of entry barrier to researchers and practitioners with limited access to resources at such scale, particularly in the Global South. In this work, we take a comprehensive look at the landscape of existing DL models for vision tasks and demonstrate their usefulness in settings where resources are limited. To account for the resource consumption of DL models, we introduce a novel measure to estimate the performance per resource unit, which we call the PePR score. Using a diverse family of 131 unique DL architectures (spanning
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@article{selvan2024pepr,
title={Equity through Access: A Case for Small-scale Deep Learning},
author={Raghavendra Selvan, Bob Pepin, Christian Igel, Gabrielle Samuel, Erik B Dam}
journal={Arxiv},
year={2024}}
- Standard Pytorch requirements to train the models.
- TIMM library for using the specific architectures.
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