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As state of the art neural networks (NNs) continue to grow in size, their resource-efficient implementation becomes ever more important. In this paper, we introduce a compression scheme that reduces the number of computations required for…

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Pruning is a widely used method for compressing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where less relevant parameters are removed from a DNN model to reduce its size. However, removing parameters reduces model accuracy, so pruning is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenhao Hu , Paul Henderson , José Cano

Pruning is a popular technique for reducing the model size and computational cost of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, a slow retraining or fine-tuning procedure is often required to recover the accuracy loss caused by pruning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yaohui Cai , Weizhe Hua , Hongzheng Chen , G. Edward Suh , Christopher De Sa , Zhiru Zhang

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, l1-norm) and retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Deepak Mittal , Shweta Bhardwaj , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer from rapidly increasing storage and computational costs as their depth grows, which severely hinders their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning is a practical approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Li Xu , Xianchao Xiu

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee

Convolutional neural networks have shown tremendous performance capabilities in computer vision tasks, but their excessive amounts of weight storage and arithmetic operations prevent them from being adopted in embedded environments. One of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Hyeong-Ju Kang

In deep learning frameworks, weight pruning is a widely used technique for improving computational efficiency by reducing the size of large models. This is especially critical for convolutional operators, which often act as performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chi-Wei Chu , Ding-Yong Hong , Jan-Jan Wu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of neural networks used in sequential tasks. However, in general, RNNs have a large number of parameters and involve enormous computational costs by repeating the recurrent structures in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-25 Takashi Furuya , Kazuma Suetake , Koichi Taniguchi , Hiroyuki Kusumoto , Ryuji Saiin , Tomohiro Daimon

This paper is focused on the improvement the efficiency of the sparse convolutional neural networks (CNNs) layers on graphic processing units (GPU). The Nvidia deep neural network (cuDnn) library provides the most effective implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek

Convolutional neural network (CNN) delivers impressive achievements in computer vision and machine learning field. However, CNN incurs high computational complexity, especially for vision quality applications because of large image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Wei-Ting Wang , Han-Lin Li , Wei-Shiang Lin , Cheng-Ming Chiang , Yi-Min Tsai

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) play a major role in image processing tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation. Very often CNN networks have from several to hundred stacked layers with several megabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Marcin Pietron , Maciej Wielgosz

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

With the increase of structure complexity, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) take a fair amount of computation cost. Meanwhile, existing research reveals the salient parameter redundancy in CNNs. The current pruning methods can compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingfei Chang , Yang Lu , Ping Xue , Yiqun Xu , Zhen Wei

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) suffer from different issues, such as computational complexity and the number of parameters. In recent years pruning techniques are employed to reduce the number of operations and model size in CNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Morteza Mousa Pasandi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

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

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been widely adopted in temporal sequence analysis, where realtime performance is often in demand. However, RNNs suffer from heavy computational workload as the model often comes with large weight…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Runbin Shi , Peiyan Dong , Tong Geng , Yuhao Ding , Xiaolong Ma , Hayden K. -H. So , Martin Herbordt , Ang Li , Yanzhi Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved impressive performance on the wide variety of tasks (classification, detection, etc.) across multiple domains at the cost of high computational and memory requirements. Thus, leveraging CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pravendra Singh , Vinay Sameer Raja Kadi , Nikhil Verma , Vinay P. Namboodiri

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

Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularities, neuron level pruning will remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Zhengtao Wang , Ce Zhu , Zhiqiang Xia , Qi Guo , Yipeng Liu