Self-Governing Neural Networks for On-Device Short Text Classification

Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
2018 Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing  
Deep neural networks reach state-of-the-art performance for wide range of natural language processing, computer vision and speech applications. Yet, one of the biggest challenges is running these complex networks on devices such as mobile phones or smart watches with tiny memory footprint and low computational capacity. We propose on-device Self-Governing Neural Networks (SGNNs), which learn compact projection vectors with local sensitive hashing. The key advantage of SGNNs over existing work
more » ... that they surmount the need for pre-trained word embeddings and complex networks with huge parameters. We conduct extensive evaluation on dialog act classification and show significant improvement over state-of-the-art results. Our findings show that SGNNs are effective at capturing low-dimensional semantic text representations, while maintaining high accuracy.
doi:10.18653/v1/d18-1092 dblp:conf/emnlp/RaviK18 fatcat:hieuxynlxbacfahkh3bfs5b2a4