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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to provide superb performance in many real life applications, but their large computation cost and storage requirement have prevented them from being deployed to many edge and internet-of-things (IoT)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Fei Sun , Yen-Kuang Chen , Makan Fardad , Yanzhi Wang , Yuan Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are effective in solving many real-world problems. Larger DNN models usually exhibit better quality (e.g., accuracy) but their excessive computation results in long inference time. Model sparsification can reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xiaolong Ma , Minghai Qin , Fei Sun , Zejiang Hou , Kun Yuan , Yi Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Yen-Kuang Chen , Rong Jin , Yuan Xie

Neural networks are easier to optimise when they have many more weights than are required for modelling the mapping from inputs to outputs. This suggests a two-stage learning procedure that first learns a large net and then prunes away…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Aidan N. Gomez , Ivan Zhang , Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Divyam Madaan , Kevin Swersky , Yarin Gal , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Random pruning is arguably the most naive way to attain sparsity in neural networks, but has been deemed uncompetitive by either post-training pruning or sparse training. In this paper, we focus on sparse training and highlight a perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Li Shen , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Zhangyang Wang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

As real-world graphs expand in size, larger GNN models with billions of parameters are deployed. High parameter count in such models makes training and inference on graphs expensive and challenging. To reduce the computational and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Hongwu Peng , Deniz Gurevin , Shaoyi Huang , Tong Geng , Weiwen Jiang , Omer Khan , Caiwen Ding

The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on edge devices is hindered by the substantial gap between performance requirements and available processing power. While recent research has made significant strides in developing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamid Mousavi , Mohammad Loni , Mina Alibeigi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Recent work on deep neural network pruning has shown there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve equal or improved accuracy, training time, and loss using fewer network parameters when compared to their dense counterparts. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Justin Cosentino , Federico Zaiter , Dan Pei , Jun Zhu

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have significant computational and data management requirements. The size of both training data and models continue to increase. Sparsification and pruning methods are shown to be effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Gunduz Vehbi Demirci , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

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

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

Deep learning has been the engine powering many successes of data science. However, the deep neural network (DNN), as the basic model of deep learning, is often excessively over-parameterized, causing many difficulties in training,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Yan Sun , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

Many applications require sparse neural networks due to space or inference time restrictions. There is a large body of work on training dense networks to yield sparse networks for inference, but this limits the size of the largest trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Utku Evci , Trevor Gale , Jacob Menick , Pablo Samuel Castro , Erich Elsen

Sparse deep learning has become a popular technique for improving the performance of deep neural networks in areas such as uncertainty quantification, variable selection, and large-scale network compression. However, most existing research…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-06 Mingxuan Zhang , Yan Sun , Faming Liang

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged as hot topics in the research community. Despite the success of ANNs, it is challenging to train and deploy modern ANNs on commodity hardware due to the ever-increasing model size and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Amarsagar Reddy Ramapuram Matavalam , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

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

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Peter Stone , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

Deep neural networks have dramatically transformed machine learning, but their memory and energy demands are substantial. The requirements of real biological neural networks are rather modest in comparison, and one feature that might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tianlin Liu , Friedemann Zenke

Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been widely studied to compress and accelerate the models on resource-constrained environments. It can be generally categorized into unstructured fine-grained sparsity that zeroes out multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aojun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Junnan Zhu , Jianbo Liu , Zhijie Zhang , Kun Yuan , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li