Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 1067-1073.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.04.05

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Radiation source signal recognition method based on attention map pruning

Huifu WANG1,2, Haibo PAN1, Jia LUO2,3, Shifei TAO1,3,*   

  1. 1. School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
    2. The 29th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Chengdu 610036, China
    3. National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Space Security, Chengdu 610036, China
  • Received:2024-04-29 Online:2025-04-25 Published:2025-05-28
  • Contact: Shifei TAO

Abstract:

In order to solve the problems of redundant parameters and large amount of computation in the neural network used for radiation source signal recognition, a method of radiation source signal recognition based on attention map pruning is proposed. The proposed method uses the product of the first-order gradient and feature activation values to measure the effectiveness values of the benchmark network convolution kernels, and removes the convolution kernels with low effectiveness values. In order to avoid the serious degradation of signal recognition performance of subnetworks after pruning, the proposed method introduces attention map knowledge loss in the fine-tuning training stage and constructs a joint loss function to transfer the feature extraction capability of the benchmark network to the subnetwork. The experimental results show that after pruning the benchmark network, the signal recognition accuracy of the subnetwork decreases by only 0.07%, the number of network parameters decreases by 48.7%, and the amount of computation decreases by 80.1%. These outcomes validate that the approach presented in this paper effectively accomplishes network lightweighting while maintaining the accuracy of signal recognition.

Key words: radiation source signal recognition, model pruning, attention map, network complexity

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