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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant flexibility and robust performance. This makes them ideal for building not only system models but also advanced neural network controllers (NNCs). However, their high complexity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ganesh Sundaram , Jonas Ulmen , Amjad Haider , Daniel Görges

Expansion property of a graph refers to its strong connectivity as well as sparseness. It has been reported that deep neural networks can be pruned to a high degree of sparsity while maintaining their performance. Such pruning is essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suryam Arnav Kalra , Arindam Biswas , Pabitra Mitra , Biswajit Basu

The success of CNNs in various applications is accompanied by a significant increase in the computation and parameter storage costs. Recent efforts toward reducing these overheads involve pruning and compressing the weights of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Hao Li , Asim Kadav , Igor Durdanovic , Hanan Samet , Hans Peter Graf

Structured pruning is a widely employed strategy for accelerating deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). However, existing methods often necessitate modifications to the original architectures, involve complex implementations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Abdesselam Ferdi

Modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are workhorses for video and image processing, but fail to adapt to the computational complexity of input samples in a dynamic manner to minimize energy consumption. In this research, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Mohamed Mejri , Ashiqur Rasul , Abhijit Chatterjee

Despite the remarkable performance, modern deep neural networks are inevitably accompanied by a significant amount of computational cost for learning and deployment, which may be incompatible with their usage on edge devices. Recent efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Seul-Ki Yeom , Kyung-Hwan Shim , Jee-Hyun Hwang

With the introduction of SNIP [arXiv:1810.02340v2], it has been demonstrated that modern neural networks can effectively be pruned before training. Yet, its sensitivity criterion has since been criticized for not propagating training signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Stijn Verdenius , Maarten Stol , Patrick Forré

While deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) demonstrate superior performance, their deployment on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware still remains challenging. Network pruning offers a viable solution by reducing both parameters and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hui Xie , Yuhe Liu , Shaoqi Yang , Jinyang Guo , Yufei Guo , Yuqing Ma , Jiaxin Chen , Jiaheng Liu , Xianglong Liu

Although state-of-the-art (SOTA) CNNs achieve outstanding performance on various tasks, their high computation demand and massive number of parameters make it difficult to deploy these SOTA CNNs onto resource-constrained devices. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Shiyu Li , Edward Hanson , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

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

Structure pruning is an effective method to compress and accelerate neural networks. While filter and channel pruning are preferable to other structure pruning methods in terms of realistic acceleration and hardware compatibility, pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Junho Kim , Joon-Young Choi , SangKeun Lee

Weight pruning is among the most popular approaches for compressing deep convolutional neural networks. Recent work suggests that in a randomly initialized deep neural network, there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vinay Kumar Verma , Nikhil Mehta , Shijing Si , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

We propose a new structured pruning framework for compressing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with skip connections, based on measuring the statistical dependency of hidden layers and predicted outputs. The dependence measure defined by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Mohammadreza Soltani , Suya Wu , Yuerong Li , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is essential for transferring the success of CNNs to a wide variety of applications to mobile devices. In contrast to directly recognizing subtle weights or filters as redundant in a given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-26 Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Jiayan Qiu , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

This paper presents a novel approach to neural network pruning by integrating a graph-based observation space into an AutoML framework to address the limitations of existing methods. Traditional pruning approaches often depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dieter Balemans , Thomas Huybrechts , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

In this paper, we propose a novel layer-adaptive weight-pruning approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that addresses the challenge of optimizing the output distortion minimization while adhering to a target pruning ratio constraint. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kaixin Xu , Zhe Wang , Xue Geng , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Weisi Lin

Structural pruning of neural networks conventionally relies on identifying and discarding less important neurons, a practice often resulting in significant accuracy loss that necessitates subsequent fine-tuning efforts. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexander Theus , Olin Geimer , Friedrich Wicke , Thomas Hofmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Sidak Pal Singh

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