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Implement structured sparsity variants from paper #19

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@MaxGhenis

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Implement the structured sparsity variants described in Section 3.2 and 4.3 of the L0 paper.

Variants to Implement

1. Neuron-wise Sparsity (MLPs)

class L0NeuronLinear(nn.Module):
    """Prune entire neurons (rows in weight matrix)."""
    def __init__(self, in_features, out_features, **kwargs):
        # One gate per output neuron
        self.neuron_gates = HardConcrete(out_features, **kwargs)
        ...
    
    def forward(self, x):
        gates = self.neuron_gates().unsqueeze(1)  # (out, 1)
        masked_weight = self.weight * gates
        return F.linear(x, masked_weight, self.bias)

2. Filter-wise Sparsity (CNNs)

Already partially implemented, but need to ensure it matches paper exactly.

3. Block-wise Sparsity

class L0BlockSparse(nn.Module):
    """Prune blocks of weights (e.g., 4x4 blocks)."""
    def __init__(self, in_features, out_features, block_size=4):
        # One gate per block
        n_blocks = (out_features // block_size) * (in_features // block_size)
        self.block_gates = HardConcrete(n_blocks)
        ...

Validation

  • Reproduce Table 2 from the paper (structured sparsity results)
  • Compare speedups with unstructured sparsity

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