PRUNIX: Non-Ideality Aware Convolutional Neural Network Pruning for Memristive Accelerators

Ali Alshaarawy, Amirali Amirsoleimani, Roman Genov

In this work, PRUNIX, a framework for training and pruning convolutional neural networks is proposed for deployment on memristor crossbar based accelerators. PRUNIX takes into acco…