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Filter is the key component in modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, since CNNs are usually over-parameterized, a pre-trained network always contain some invalid (unimportant) filters. These filters have relatively small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Hao Cheng , Fanxu Meng , Ke Li , Yuting Gao , Guangming Lu , Xing Sun , Rongrong Ji

We propose methodologies to train highly accurate and efficient deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image super resolution (SR). A cascade training approach to deep learning is proposed to improve the accuracy of the neural…

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

We present a filter pruning approach for deep model compression, using a multitask network. Our approach is based on learning a a pruner network to prune a pre-trained target network. The pruner is essentially a multitask deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Vinay Kumar Verma , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Piyush Rai

Deep learning stands as the modern paradigm for solving cognitive tasks. However, as the problem complexity increases, models grow deeper and computationally prohibitive, hindering advancements in real-world and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gustavo Henrique do Nascimento , Ian Pons , Anna Helena Reali Costa , Artur Jordao

Channel pruning, which seeks to reduce the model size by removing redundant channels, is a popular solution for deep networks compression. Existing channel pruning methods usually conduct layer-wise channel selection by directly minimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Jiagang Zhu , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

This paper proposes a new method to improve the training efficiency of deep convolutional neural networks. During training, the method evaluates scores to measure how much each layer's parameters change and whether the layer will continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Giorgio Cruciata , Luca Cruciata , Liliana Lo Presti , Jan Van Gemert , Marco La Cascia

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

Structured pruning of filters or neurons has received increased focus for compressing convolutional neural networks. Most existing methods rely on multi-stage optimizations in a layer-wise manner for iteratively pruning and retraining which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Shaohui Lin , Rongrong Ji , Chenqian Yan , Baochang Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Qixiang Ye , Feiyue Huang , David Doermann

Channel pruning is an important family of methods to speed up deep model's inference. Previous filter pruning algorithms regard channel pruning and model fine-tuning as two independent steps. This paper argues that combining them into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Jian-Hao Luo , Jianxin Wu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have closer dynamics to the brain than current deep neural networks. Their low power consumption and sample efficiency make these networks interesting. Recently, several deep convolutional spiking neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

We develop an approach to growing deep network architectures over the course of training, driven by a principled combination of accuracy and sparsity objectives. Unlike existing pruning or architecture search techniques that operate on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xin Yuan , Pedro Savarese , Michael Maire

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in vision applications have large models with numerous weights. Training these models is very compute- and memory-resource intensive. Much research has been done on pruning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sangkug Lym , Esha Choukse , Siavash Zangeneh , Wei Wen , Sujay Sanghavi , Mattan Erez

Deep Learning models have become the dominant approach in several areas due to their high performance. Unfortunately, the size and hence computational requirements of operating such models can be considerably high. Therefore, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Abdullah Salama , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Structured pruning is a widely employed strategy for accelerating deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). However, existing methods often necessitate modifications to the original architectures, involve complex implementations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Abdesselam Ferdi

This paper presents an iterative pruning strategy for Convolutional Network Fabrics (CNF) in presence of noisy training and testing data. With the continuous increase in size of neural network models, various authors have developed pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Ilias Benjelloun , Bart Lamiroy , Efoevi Koudou

Layer pruning has emerged as a potent approach to remove redundant layers in the pre-trained network on the purpose of reducing network size and improve computational efficiency. However, existing layer pruning methods mostly overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yuqi Li , Yao Lu , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Xin Yin , Yihao Chen , Jianping Gou , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

Filter pruning simultaneously accelerates the computation and reduces the memory overhead of CNNs, which can be effectively applied to edge devices and cloud services. In this paper, we propose a novel Knowledge-driven Differential Filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Shaohui Lin , Wenxuan Huang , Jiao Xie , Baochang Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Zhou Yu , Jungong Han , David Doermann

This paper proposes a reliable neural network pruning algorithm by setting up a scientific control. Existing pruning methods have developed various hypotheses to approximate the importance of filters to the network and then execute filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Dacheng Tao , Chunjing Xu , Chao Xu , Chang Xu

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