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Deep Neural Network (DNN) has gained unprecedented performance due to its automated feature extraction capability. This high order performance leads to significant incorporation of DNN models in different Internet of Things (IoT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Rahul Mishra , Hari Prabhat Gupta , Tanima Dutta

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

Scaling models has led to significant advancements in deep learning, but training these models in decentralized settings remains challenging due to communication bottlenecks. While existing compression techniques are effective in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sameera Ramasinghe , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Alexander Long

Rate distortion theory was developed for optimizing lossy compression of data, but it also has a lot of applications in statistics. In this paper we will see how rate distortion theory can be used to analyze a complicated data set involving…

Applications · Statistics 2023-03-22 Peter Harremoës

We examine the coordinated and universal rate-efficient sampling of a subset of correlated discrete memoryless sources followed by lossy compression of the sampled sources. The goal is to reconstruct a predesignated subset of sources within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan

We present an efficient coresets-based neural network compression algorithm that sparsifies the parameters of a trained fully-connected neural network in a manner that provably approximates the network's output. Our approach is based on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Pre-trained Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, these models often have billions of parameters, and, thus, are too resource-hungry and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Prakhar Ganesh , Yao Chen , Xin Lou , Mohammad Ali Khan , Yin Yang , Hassan Sajjad , Preslav Nakov , Deming Chen , Marianne Winslett

We describe a simple and general neural network weight compression approach, in which the network parameters (weights and biases) are represented in a "latent" space, amounting to a reparameterization. This space is equipped with a learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Deniz Oktay , Johannes Ballé , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

We study the problem of distributed and rate-adaptive feature compression for linear regression. A set of distributed sensors collect disjoint features of regressor data. A fusion center is assumed to contain a pretrained linear regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Aditya Deshmukh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Gunjan Verma

With the rise of smartphones and the internet-of-things, data is increasingly getting generated at the edge on local, personal devices. For privacy, latency and energy saving reasons, this shift is causing machine learning algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiaqi Li , Ross Drummond , Stephen R. Duncan

We show that model compression can improve the population risk of a pre-trained model, by studying the tradeoff between the decrease in the generalization error and the increase in the empirical risk with model compression. We first prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Yuheng Bu , Weihao Gao , Shaofeng Zou , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Split computing has emerged as a recent paradigm for implementation of DNN-based AI workloads, wherein a DNN model is split into two parts, one of which is executed on a mobile/client device and the other on an edge-server (or cloud). Data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Parual Datta , Nilesh Ahuja , V. Srinivasa Somayazulu , Omesh Tickoo

Deep Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models play an important role in modern industrial recommendation scenarios. However, high memory overhead and computational costs limit their deployment in resource-constrained environments.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hao Yu , Minghao Fu , Jiandong Ding , Yusheng Zhou , Jianxin Wu

Transformer models have revolutionized natural language processing with their unparalleled ability to grasp complex contextual relationships. However, the vast number of parameters in these models has raised concerns regarding computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Network pruning is a commonly used measure to alleviate the storage and computational burden of deep neural networks. However, the fundamental limit of network pruning is still lacking. To close the gap, in this work we'll take a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Qiaozhe Zhang , Ruijie Zhang , Jun Sun , Yingzhuang Liu

What happens when multiple compression methods are combined-does the order in which they are applied matter? Joint model compression has emerged as a powerful strategy to achieve higher efficiency by combining multiple methods such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Minjun Kim , Jaehyeon Choi , Hyunwoo Yang , Jongjin Kim , Jinho Song , U Kang

Deep Neural Networks reached state-of-the-art performance across numerous domains, but this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large and over-parameterized models, posing serious challenges for deployment on resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dario Malchiodi , Mattia Ferraretto , Marco Frasca

Tensor decompositions have been successfully applied to compress neural networks. The compression algorithms using tensor decompositions commonly minimize the approximation error on the weights. Recent work assumes the approximation error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jetze T. Schuurmans , Kim Batselier , Julian F. P. Kooij

Pruning the weights of neural networks is an effective and widely-used technique for reducing model size and inference complexity. We develop and test a novel method based on compressed sensing which combines the pruning and training into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jonathan W. Siegel , Jianhong Chen , Pengchuan Zhang , Jinchao Xu

Low-rank factorization is a popular model compression technique that minimizes the error $\delta$ between approximated and original weight matrices. Despite achieving performances close to the original models when $\delta$ is optimized, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Boyang Zhang , Daning Cheng , Yunquan Zhang , Fangming Liu , Jiake Tian