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One of the most effective methods of channel pruning is to trim on the basis of the importance of each neuron. However, measuring the importance of each neuron is an NP-hard problem. Previous works have proposed to trim by considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bilan Lai , Haoran Xiang , Furao Shen

With the successful application of deep learning in communications systems, deep neural networks are becoming the preferred method for signal classification. Although these models yield impressive results, they often come with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yao Lu , Yutao Zhu , Yuqi Li , Dongwei Xu , Yun Lin , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) play a major role in image processing tasks like image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation. Very often CNN networks have from several to hundred stacked layers with several megabytes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Marcin Pietron , Maciej Wielgosz

Network pruning is an effective method to reduce the computational expense of over-parameterized neural networks for deployment on low-resource systems. Recent state-of-the-art techniques for retraining pruned networks such as weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Duong H. Le , Binh-Son Hua

In the last decade convolutional neural networks have become gargantuan. Pre-trained models, when used as initializers are able to fine-tune ever larger networks on small datasets. Consequently, not all the convolutional features that these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Ragav Venkatesan , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Xiong Zhou , Anna Luo

A central goal in deep learning is to learn compact representations of features at every layer of a neural network, which is useful for both unsupervised representation learning and structured network pruning. While there is a growing body…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jie Bu , Arka Daw , M. Maruf , Anuj Karpatne

Most existing channel pruning methods formulate the pruning task from a perspective of inefficiency reduction which iteratively rank and remove the least important filters, or find the set of filters that minimizes some reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Chengcheng Li , Zi Wang , Dali Wang , Xiangyang Wang , Hairong Qi

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 network pruning reduces the computational cost of an over-parameterized network to improve its efficiency. Popular methods vary from $\ell_1$-norm sparsification to Neural Architecture Search (NAS). In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Yonathan Aflalo , Asaf Noy , Ming Lin , Itamar Friedman , Lihi Zelnik

Channel pruning is a powerful technique to reduce the computational overhead of deep neural networks, enabling efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. However, existing pruning methods often rely on local heuristics or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zifan Liu , Yuan Cao , Yanwei Yu , Heng Qi , Jie Gui

Although deep learning has substantially advanced speech separation in recent years, most existing studies continue to prioritize separation quality while overlooking computational efficiency, an essential factor for low-latency speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuqi Li , Kai Li , Xin Yin , Zhifei Yang , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Yingli Tian , Yao Lu

Reducing the high computational cost of large convolutional neural networks is crucial when deploying the networks to resource-constrained environments. We first show the greedy approach of recent channel pruning methods ignores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Yeonwoo Jeong , Deokjae Lee , Gaon An , Changyong Son , Hyun Oh Song

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

Compression of convolutional neural network models has recently been dominated by pruning approaches. A class of previous works focuses solely on pruning the unimportant filters to achieve network compression. Another important direction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tariq M. Khan , Syed S. Naqvi , Antonio Robles-Kelly , Erik Meijering

One of the major challenges in deploying deep neural network architectures is their size which has an adverse effect on their inference time and memory requirements. Deep CNNs can either be pruned width-wise by removing filters based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Muhammad Umair Haider , Murtaza Taj

Despite the strong performance of Transformers, their quadratic computation complexity presents challenges in applying them to vision tasks. Automatic pruning is one of effective methods for reducing computation complexity without heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Eunho Lee , Youngbae Hwang

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved state of the art performance across various computer vision tasks, however their practical deployment is limited by computational and memory overhead. This paper introduces Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Iftekhar Haider Chowdhury , Zaed Ikbal Syed , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

Existing methods of pruning deep neural networks focus on removing unnecessary parameters of the trained network and fine tuning the model afterwards to find a good solution that recovers the initial performance of the trained model. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Abdolghani Ebrahimi , Diego Klabjan

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutions for reducing the computational load of training at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaoying Zhi , Varun Babbar , Rundong Liu , Pheobe Sun , Fran Silavong , Ruibo Shi , Sean Moran