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Most state-of-the-art deep neural networks are overparameterized and exhibit a high computational cost. A straightforward approach to this problem is to replace convolutional kernels with its low-rank tensor approximations, whereas the Canonical Polyadic tensor Decomposition is one of the most suited models. However, fitting the convolutional tensors by numerical optimization algorithms often encounters diverging components, i.e., extremely large rank-one tensors but canceling each other. Such degeneracy often causes the non-interpretable result and numerical instability for the neural network ne-tuning. This paper is the first study on degeneracy in the tensor decomposition of convolutional kernels. We present a novel method, which can stabilize the low-rank approximation of convolutional kernels and ensure efficient compression while preserving the highquality performance of the neural networks. We evaluate our approach on popular CNN architectures for image classification and show that our method results in much lower accuracy degradation and provides consistent performance.

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This paper proposes a constrained canonical polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition method with low-rank factor matrices. In this way, we allow the CP decomposition with high rank while keeping the number of the model parameters small. First, we propose an algorithm to decompose the tensors into factor matrices of given ranks. Second, we propose an algorithm which can determine the ranks of the factor matrices automatically, such that the fitting error is bounded by a userselected constant. The algorithms are verified on the decomposition of a tensor of the MNIST hand-written image dataset.