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Deep convolutional neural networks are a powerful model class for a range of computer vision problems, but it is difficult to interpret the image filtering process they implement, given their sheer size. In this work, we introduce a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Chris Hamblin , Talia Konkle , George Alvarez

We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chun-Fu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Marco Pistoia , Gwo Giun Lee

Sparsity helps reduce the computational complexity of deep neural networks by skipping zeros. Taking advantage of sparsity is listed as a high priority in next generation DNN accelerators such as TPU. The structure of sparsity, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Huizi Mao , Song Han , Jeff Pool , Wenshuo Li , Xingyu Liu , Yu Wang , William J. Dally

This work is focused on the pruning of some convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and improving theirs efficiency on graphic processing units (GPU) by using a direct sparse algorithm. The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

The deployment of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many real world applications is largely hindered by their high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel learning scheme for CNNs to simultaneously 1) reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Zhuang Liu , Jianguo Li , Zhiqiang Shen , Gao Huang , Shoumeng Yan , Changshui Zhang

Hyperspectral imaging systems collect and process information from specific wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum. The fusion of multi-spectral bands in the visible spectrum has been exploited to improve face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Fariborz Taherkhani , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

The Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have obtained a great success for pattern recognition, such as recognizing the texts in images. But existing CNNs based frameworks still have several drawbacks: 1) the traditaional pooling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Zhao Zhang , Zemin Tang , Zheng Zhang , Yang Wang , Jie Qin , Meng Wang

In the past few years, neural networks have evolved from simple Feedforward Neural Networks to more complex neural networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks. Where CNNs are a perfect fit for tasks where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Harshil Darji

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well on problems such as handwriting recognition and image classification. However, the performance of the networks is often limited by budget and time constraints, particularly when trying to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Benjamin Graham

Convolutional neural networks are designed for dense data, but vision data is often sparse (stereo depth, point clouds, pen stroke, etc.). We present a method to handle sparse depth data with optional dense RGB, and accomplish depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Maximilian Jaritz , Raoul de Charette , Emilie Wirbel , Xavier Perrotton , Fawzi Nashashibi

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

With the increasing demand to deploy convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on mobile platforms, the sparse kernel approach was proposed, which could save more parameters than the standard convolution while maintaining accuracy. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Kun Wan , Boyuan Feng , Shu Yang , Yufei Ding

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have led to many state-of-the-art results spanning through various fields. However, a clear and profound theoretical understanding of the forward pass, the core algorithm of CNN, is still lacking. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-02 Vardan Papyan , Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad

Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

CNNs outperform traditional machine learning algorithms across a wide range of applications. However, their computational complexity makes it necessary to design efficient hardware accelerators. Most CNN accelerators focus on exploring…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Ye Yu , Niraj K. Jha

Purpose: The aim of this work is to demonstrate that convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be applied to extremely sparse image libraries by subdivision of the original image datasets. Methods: Image datasets from a conventional digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Johan P. Boetker

Deep neural networks employ specialized architectures for vision, sequential and language tasks, yet this proliferation obscures their underlying commonalities. We introduce a unified matrix-order framework that casts convolutional,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuzhou Zhu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yue Lu , Yun Zhou , Zhuqing Jiang , Xiaoqiang Guo , Zixuan Yang

Leveraging large data sets, deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art recognition accuracy. Due to the substantial compute and memory operations, however, they require significant execution time. The massive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Chao Li , Yi Yang , Min Feng , Srimat Chakradhar , Huiyang Zhou