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pruner

pruner

6.6
A program or person that removes unneeded parts from a computer model to make it smaller and faster
  • noun
  • /ˈpruːnər/
  • Specialized
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  • During training, the team deployed several pruners that zeroed small weights to shrink the model.

Examples

  • After profiling, the engineers instructed the pruner to discard low-importance features and speed up inference.

  • The pruner is essential for optimizing our machine learning models.

  • The ML pipeline uses a pruner to remove redundant parameters during optimization.

  • Can you recommend a good pruner for our dataset?

  • The pruner efficiently removed the excess data from the model, allowing it to run faster.

  • Using a pruner can help optimize the dataset by eliminating irrelevant features.

  • Our team worked with a specialized pruner to streamline the machine learning algorithms.

Synonyms

minimizer
vspruner
  • US
1 5.8

A person or thing that makes something smaller

is a computing tool that removes unneeded model parts to make them smaller

Surface Forms

pruner singular
pruners plural

Morphology

pruner = prune (semi-transparent) = prune + er

Derived from 'prune' meaning 'remove', but used metaphorically in a technical domain (ML), so the mapping is learnable but domain-specific.

Etymology

Pruner is used in computing by borrowing the gardening verb prune (from Latin prunus 'plum'), and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine cutting away extra branches. So a pruner in machine learning is something that removes unnecessary parts of a model to make it smaller and faster.