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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks~(CNNs) offer remarkable performance of classifications and regressions in many high-dimensional problems and have been widely utilized in real-word cognitive applications. However, high computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Chuhan Min , Aosen Wang , Yiran Chen , Wenyao Xu , Xin Chen

Pruning filters is an effective method for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs), but most existing approaches prune filters on a pre-trained network directly which limits in acceleration. Although each filter has its own effect in DNNs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zhengguang Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Richang Hong , Houqiang Li

The success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts to reduce these overheads involve pruning and compressing the…

Though network pruning receives popularity in reducing the complexity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), it remains an open issue to concurrently maintain model accuracy as well as achieve significant speedups on general CPUs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mingbao Lin , Yuxin Zhang , Yuchao Li , Bohong Chen , Fei Chao , Mengdi Wang , Shen Li , Yonghong Tian , Rongrong Ji

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

A variety of pruning methods have been introduced for over-parameterized Recurrent Neural Networks to improve efficiency in terms of power consumption and storage utilization. These advances motivate a new paradigm, termed `hyperpruning',…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Caleb Zheng , Eli Shlizerman

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Network pruning is a promising way to generate light but accurate models and enable their deployment on resource-limited edge devices. However, the current state-of-the-art assumes that the effective sub-network and the other superfluous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yingchun Wang , Song Guo , Jingcai Guo , Weizhan Zhang , Yida Xu , Jie Zhang , Yi Liu

Channel pruning is one of the major compression approaches for deep neural networks. While previous pruning methods have mostly focused on identifying unimportant channels, channel pruning is considered as a special case of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Xiangcheng Liu , Jian Cao , Hongyi Yao , Wenyu Sun , Yuan Zhang

Channel pruning is one of the predominant approaches for deep model compression. Existing pruning methods either train from scratch with sparsity constraints on channels, or minimize the reconstruction error between the pre-trained feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zhuangwei Zhuang , Mingkui Tan , Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Yong Guo , Qingyao Wu , Junzhou Huang , Jinhui Zhu

This paper presents a novel approach to network pruning, targeting block pruning in deep neural networks for edge computing environments. Our method diverges from traditional techniques that utilize proxy metrics, instead employing a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Cheng-En Wu , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

To reduce computational overhead while maintaining model performance, model pruning techniques have been proposed. Among these, structured pruning, which removes entire convolutional channels or layers, significantly enhances computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Qingsong Lv , Jiasheng Sun , Sheng Zhou , Xu Zhang , Liangcheng Li , Yun Gao , Sun Qiao , Jie Song , Jiajun Bu

In this paper, we present MicroNet, which is an efficient convolutional neural network using extremely low computational cost (e.g. 6 MFLOPs on ImageNet classification). Such a low cost network is highly desired on edge devices, yet usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yunsheng Li , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Lei Zhang , Nuno Vasconcelos

Filter pruning method introduces structural sparsity by removing selected filters and is thus particularly effective for reducing complexity. Previous works empirically prune networks from the point of view that filter with smaller norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Tao Niu , Yinglei Teng , Panpan Zou

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

The remarkable performance of deep Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is generally attributed to their deeper and wider architectures, which can come with significant computational costs. Pruning neural networks has thus gained interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yang He , Lingao Xiao

Network pruning can significantly reduce the computation and memory footprint of large neural networks. To achieve a good trade-off between model size and performance, popular pruning techniques usually rely on hand-crafted heuristics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenyuan Zeng , Yuwen Xiong , Raquel Urtasun

The deployment of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on resource constrained platforms such as mobile devices and embedded systems has been greatly hindered by their high implementation cost, and thus motivated a lot research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Boyu Zhang , Azadeh Davoodi , Yu Hen Hu

Circuit discovery aims to identify minimal subnetworks that are responsible for specific behaviors in large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches primarily rely on iterative edge pruning, which is computationally expensive and limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Muhammad Umair Haider , Hammad Rizwan , Hassan Sajjad , A. B. Siddique

Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural Architecture Search. These algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aitor Martínez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera