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ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

Abstract

We introduce an extremely computation efficient CNN architecture named ShuffleNet, designed specially for mobile devices with very limited computing power (e.g., 10-150 MFLOPs). The new architecture utilizes two proposed operations, pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle, to greatly reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy. Experiments on ImageNet classification and MS COCO object detection demonstrate the superior performance of ShuffleNet over other structures, e.g. lower top-1 error (absolute 6.7\%) than the recent MobileNet system on ImageNet classification under the computation budget of 40 MFLOPs. On an ARM-based mobile device, ShuffleNet achieves \textasciitilde 13×\times actual speedup over AlexNet while maintaining comparable accuracy.

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