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As the size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) increases dramatically to achieve high accuracy, the DNNs require a large amount of computations and memory footprint. Pruning, which produces a sparse neural network, is one of the solutions to…

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Learning predictive models from observations using deep neural networks (DNNs) is a promising new approach to many real-world planning and control problems. However, common DNNs are too unstructured for effective planning, and current…

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The sizes of deep neural networks (DNNs) are rapidly outgrowing the capacity of hardware to store and train them. Research over the past few decades has explored the prospect of sparsifying DNNs before, during, and after training by pruning…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are efficient solvers for ill-posed problems and have been shown to outperform classical optimization techniques in several computational imaging problems. DNNs are trained by solving an optimization problem…

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This paper is dedicated to an efficient compression of weights and optimizer states (called checkpoints) obtained at different stages during a neural network training process. First, we propose a prediction-based compression approach, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yuriy Kim , Evgeny Belyaev

The training phases of Deep neural network~(DNN) consumes enormous processing time and energy. Compression techniques utilizing the sparsity of DNNs can effectively accelerate the inference phase of DNNs. However, it is hardly used in the…

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This paper reduces the cost of DNNs training by decreasing the amount of data movement across heterogeneous architectures composed of several GPUs and multicore CPU devices. In particular, this paper proposes an algorithm to dynamically…

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Deep convolution Neural Network (DCNN) has been widely used in computer vision tasks. However, for edge devices even inference has too large computational complexity and data access amount. The inference latency of state-of-the-art models…

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Weight pruning has been widely acknowledged as a straightforward and effective method to eliminate redundancy in Deep Neural Networks (DNN), thereby achieving acceleration on various platforms. However, most of the pruning techniques are…

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Ensuring solution feasibility is a key challenge in developing Deep Neural Network (DNN) schemes for solving constrained optimization problems, due to inherent DNN prediction errors. In this paper, we propose a ``preventive learning''…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianyu Zhao , Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Steven H. Low

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented success in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. However, their superior performance comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Cai , Ji Lin , Yujun Lin , Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Hanrui Wang , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

Edge AI systems often operate under stringent energy and volume constraints that demand extreme efficiency under limited battery capacity, with requirements worsening as intelligent capability demands advance. Prior literature suggests that…

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The increasing computational requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to significant interest in obtaining DNN models that are sparse, yet accurate. Recent work has investigated the even harder case of sparse training, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Alexandra Peste , Eugenia Iofinova , Adrian Vladu , Dan Alistarh

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shaharyar Ahmed Khan Tareen , Filza Khan Tareen

The rise of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has led to an increase in model size and complexity, straining the memory capacity of GPUs. Sparsity in DNNs, characterized as structural or ephemeral, has gained attention as a solution. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Daniel Barley , Holger Fröning

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied for various real-world applications, and achieved significant performance for cognitive problems. However, the increment of DNNs' width and depth in architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao Peng Li , Qi Liu , Hing Cheung So

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Over-parameterization of deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown high prediction accuracy for many applications. Although effective, the large number of parameters hinders its popularity on resource-limited devices and has an outsize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shaoyi Huang , Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Hongwu Peng , Yue Sun , Mimi Xie , Caiwen Ding

This work aims to enable persistent, event-driven sensing and decision capabilities for energy-harvesting (EH)-powered devices by deploying lightweight DNNs onto EH-powered devices. However, harvested energy is usually weak and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Zhenge Jia , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

The resource requirements of deep neural networks (DNNs) pose significant challenges to their deployment on edge devices. Common approaches to address this issue are pruning and mixed-precision quantization, which lead to latency and memory…