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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used in many computer vision tasks. Yet, their increasing size and complexity pose significant challenges for efficient deployment on resource-constrained platforms. Hence, network pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maxim Henry , Adrien Deliège , Anthony Cioppa , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with a large number of weights and varied weight distribution can be difficult to implement in emerging in-memory computing hardware due to the limitations on crossbar size (implementing dot product), the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Pruning methods have shown to be effective at reducing the size of deep neural networks while keeping accuracy almost intact. Among the most effective methods are those that prune a network while training it with a sparsity prior loss and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Carl Lemaire , Andrew Achkar , Pierre-Marc Jodoin

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Phenomenally successful in practical inference problems, convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely deployed in mobile devices, data centers, and even supercomputers. The number of parameters needed in CNNs, however, are often large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jongsoo Park , Sheng Li , Wei Wen , Ping Tak Peter Tang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen , Pradeep Dubey

Many state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms use large scale convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as basic building blocks. These CNNs are known for their huge number of parameters, high redundancy in weights, and tremendous computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Qiangui Huang , Kevin Zhou , Suya You , Ulrich Neumann

Although 3D Convolutional Neural Networks are essential for most learning based applications involving dense 3D data, their applicability is limited due to excessive memory and computational requirements. Compressing such networks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhiwei Xu , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Vibhav Vineet , Richard Hartley

CNN model is a popular method for imagery analysis, so it could be utilized to recognize handwritten digits based on MNIST datasets. For higher recognition accuracy, various CNN models with different fully connected layer sizes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Mengyu Chen

Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios. A widely-used practice in relevant work assumes that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jianbo Ye , Xin Lu , Zhe Lin , James Z. Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonplace in high-performing solutions to many real-world problems, such as audio classification. CNNs have many parameters and filters, with some having a larger impact on the performance than…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-08 James A King , Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is more and more widely used in various fileds, and its computation and memory-demand are also increasing significantly. In order to make it applicable to limited conditions such as embedded application,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiayi Yao , Ping Li , Xiatao Kang , Yuzhe Wang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) delivers impressive achievements in computer vision and machine learning field. However, CNN incurs high computational complexity, especially for vision quality applications because of large image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-07 Wei-Ting Wang , Han-Lin Li , Wei-Shiang Lin , Cheng-Ming Chiang , Yi-Min Tsai

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved great success in the field of computer vision. However, it is still a big challenge to deploy these deep models on resource-constrained embedded devices such as mobile robots, smart phones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yiming Hu , Siyang Sun , Jianquan Li , Xingang Wang , Qingyi Gu

Structured pruning greatly eases the deployment of large neural networks in resource-constrained environments. However, current methods either involve strong domain expertise, require extra hyperparameter tuning, or are restricted only to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Qingyuan Li , Bo Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu

The remarkable performance of modern deep neural networks (DNNs) is largely driven by their massive scale, often comprising tens to hundreds of millions-or even billions-of parameters. However, such a scale incurs substantial storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mingyuan Wang , Yangzi Guo , Sida Liu , Yuhang Liu

Channel pruning is widely used to reduce the complexity of deep network models. Recent pruning methods usually identify which parts of the network to discard by proposing a channel importance criterion. However, recent studies have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuanzhi Duan , Yue Zhou , Peng He , Qiang Liu , Shukai Duan , Xiaofang Hu

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

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has an amount of parameter redundancy, filter pruning aims to remove the redundant filters and provides the possibility for the application of CNN on terminal devices. However, previous works pay more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pengkun Liu , Yaru Yue , Yanjun Guo , Xingxiang Tao , Xiaoguang Zhou

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible and computationally efficient. Therefore, SNNs have the natural advantage of drawing the sparse structural plasticity of brain development to alleviate the energy problems of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Wenxuan Pan