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As a popular channel pruning method for convolutional neural networks (CNNs), network slimming (NS) has a three-stage process: (1) it trains a CNN with $\ell_1$ regularization applied to the scaling factors of the batch normalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Kevin Bui , Fanghui Xue , Fredrick Park , Yingyong Qi , Jack Xin

Pruning neural networks has proven to be a successful approach to increase the efficiency and reduce the memory storage of deep learning models without compromising performance. Previous literature has shown that it is possible to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Joaquin Alvarez

Neural networks are both computationally intensive and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources. To address this limitation, we introduce "deep compression", a three stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Song Han , Huizi Mao , William J. Dally

Channel pruning and tensor decomposition have received extensive attention in convolutional neural network compression. However, these two techniques are traditionally deployed in an isolated manner, leading to significant accuracy drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yuchao Li , Shaohui Lin , Jianzhuang Liu , Qixiang Ye , Mengdi Wang , Fei Chao , Fan Yang , Jincheng Ma , Qi Tian , Rongrong Ji

Compressing large-scale neural networks is essential for deploying models on resource-constrained devices. Most existing methods adopt weight pruning or low-bit quantization individually, often resulting in suboptimal compression rates to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ziyi Wang , Nan Jiang , Guang Lin , Qifan Song

Model compression is instrumental in optimizing deep neural network inference on resource-constrained hardware. The prevailing methods for network compression, namely quantization and pruning, have been shown to enhance efficiency at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ben Zandonati , Glenn Bucagu , Adrian Alan Pol , Maurizio Pierini , Olya Sirkin , Tal Kopetz

Compression techniques for deep neural network models are becoming very important for the efficient execution of high-performance deep learning systems on edge-computing devices. The concept of model compression is also important for…

Quantization and pruning are two essential techniques for compressing neural networks, yet they are often treated independently, with limited theoretical analysis connecting them. This paper introduces a unified framework for post-training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Haoyu Zhang , Rayan Saab

Pruning methods have recently grown in popularity as an effective way to reduce the size and computational complexity of deep neural networks. Large numbers of parameters can be removed from trained models with little discernible loss in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

We investigate pruning and quantization for deep neural networks. Our goal is to achieve extremely high sparsity for quantized networks to enable implementation on low cost and low power accelerator hardware. In a practical scenario, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Po-Hsiang Yu , Sih-Sian Wu , Jan P. Klopp , Liang-Gee Chen , Shao-Yi Chien

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at learning complex latent-space representations, their over-parameterization can lead to overfitting and reduced performance, particularly with limited data. This, alongside their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Manish Sharma , Jamison Heard , Eli Saber , Panos P. Markopoulos

Proper regularization is critical for speeding up training, improving generalization performance, and learning compact models that are cost efficient. We propose and analyze regularized gradient descent algorithms for learning shallow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Samet Oymak

Network quantization is one of network compression techniques to reduce the redundancy of deep neural networks. It reduces the number of distinct network parameter values by quantization in order to save the storage for them. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Yoojin Choi , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved significant success in computer vision field. However, the high computational cost of the deep complex models prevents the deployment on edge devices with limited memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Huiyuan Zhuo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Heng Yang , Xiangyang Xue

Network pruning is an important research field aiming at reducing computational costs of neural networks. Conventional approaches follow a fixed paradigm which first trains a large and redundant network, and then determines which units…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Jun Zhou , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Recently, deep learning has become a de facto standard in machine learning with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrating spectacular success on a wide variety of tasks. However, CNNs are typically very demanding computationally at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Yochai Zur , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Brian Chmiel , Itay Evron , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Network compression has been widely studied since it is able to reduce the memory and computation cost during inference. However, previous methods seldom deal with complicated structures like residual connections, group/depth-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Liyang Liu , Shilong Zhang , Zhanghui Kuang , Aojun Zhou , Jing-Hao Xue , Xinjiang Wang , Yimin Chen , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Wayne Zhang

Binary neural networks (BNNs) are an attractive solution for developing and deploying deep neural network (DNN)-based applications in resource constrained devices. Despite their success, BNNs still suffer from a fixed and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Riccardo Schiavone , Francesco Galati , Maria A. Zuluaga

This work focuses on reducing neural network size, which is a major driver of neural network execution time, power consumption, bandwidth, and memory footprint. A key challenge is to reduce size in a manner that can be exploited readily for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Szabolcs Cséfalvay , James Imber

Structured pruning efficiently compresses networks by identifying and removing unimportant neurons. While this can be elegantly achieved by applying sparsity-inducing regularisation on BatchNorm parameters, an L1 penalty would shrink all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Mihai Suteu , Yike Guo