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The success of CNNs in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in the computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts toward reducing these overheads involve pruning and compressing the weights of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Hao Li , Asim Kadav , Igor Durdanovic , Hanan Samet , Hans Peter Graf

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been increasingly deployed to edge devices. Hence, many efforts have been made towards efficient CNN inference in resource-constrained platforms. This paper attempts to explore an orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Yue Wang , Ziyu Jiang , Xiaohan Chen , Pengfei Xu , Yang Zhao , Yingyan Lin , Zhangyang Wang

Pruning is one of the major methods to compress deep neural networks. In this paper, we propose an Ising energy model within an optimization framework for pruning convolutional kernels and hidden units. This model is designed to reduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performance in various applications. However, CNNs are resource-hungry due to their requirement of high computational complexity and memory storage. Recent efforts toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

Recently ConvNets or convolutional neural networks (CNN) have come up as state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms, achieving near-human performance in visual detection. However, ConvNet algorithms are typically very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bert Moons , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool , Marian Verhelst

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated extraordinarily good performance in many computer vision tasks. The increasing size of CNN models, however, prevents them from being widely deployed to devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Guan Li , Junpeng Wang , Han-Wei Shen , Kaixin Chen , Guihua Shan , Zhonghua Lu

Computer vision often uses highly accurate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but these deep learning models are associated with ever-increasing energy and computation requirements. Producing more energy-efficient CNNs often requires…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding accuracy for many vision tasks during recent years. When deploying CNNs on portable devices and embedded systems, however, the large number of parameters and computations result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

Data processing on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) places a heavy burden on energy-constrained mobile platforms. This work optimizes energy on a mobile client by partitioning CNN computations between in situ processing on the client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Susmita Dey Manasi , Farhana Sharmin Snigdha , Sachin S. Sapatnekar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various fields. However, the large number of floating-point operations (FLOPs) in DNNs poses challenges for their deployment in resource-constrained applications, e.g.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mengnan Jiang , Jingcun Wang , Amro Eldebiky , Xunzhao Yin , Cheng Zhuo , Ing-Chao Lin , Grace Li Zhang

Even though the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has shown superior results in the field of computer vision, it is still a challenging task to implement computer vision algorithms in real-time at the edge, especially using a low-cost IoT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chinthaka Gamanayake , Lahiru Jayasinghe , Benny Ng , Chau Yuen

Nowadays, it is still difficult to adapt Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models for deployment on embedded devices. The heavy computation and large memory footprint of CNN models become the main burden in real application. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Xin Li , Changsong Liu

Recently there has been a lot of work on pruning filters from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the intention of reducing computations. The key idea is to rank the filters based on a certain criterion (say, $l_1$-norm, average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Deep neural networks are typically too computationally expensive to run in real-time on consumer-grade hardware and low-powered devices. In this paper, we investigate reducing the computational and memory requirements of neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Kimessha Paupamah , Steven James , Richard Klein

Channel pruning is a promising technique to compress the parameters of deep convolutional neural networks(DCNN) and to speed up the inference. This paper aims to address the long-standing inefficiency of channel pruning. Most channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhouyang Xie , Yan Fu , Shengzhao Tian , Junlin Zhou , Duanbing Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved significant breakthroughs in various fields. However, these advancements have led to a substantial increase in the complexity and size of these networks. This poses a challenge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ahmed Sadaqa , Di Liu

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…