About the network inflation factors

[hex0102]

As I find out in the code, layers in VGG network, ResNet have an inflation factor.
Could someone please help clarify this?
Why need to inflate the network? Is there a reference to address this question?
I also checked the tensorflow repo for the BNN network, there's no inflation factor.

[itayhubara]

you don't have to inflate the network but it improves accuracy. WRPN paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01134

[hex0102]

@itayhubara Thank you very much for your quick reply and help. The reference is really useful.
I'm checking out this paper.

[hex0102]

@itayhubara It seems like that for VGG_CIFAR10, the attained accuracy for the inflated network doesn't improve very much (limited to 1%). Are there any reasons to explain this?

[itayhubara]

VGG_CIFAR10 is a very large network to begin with...