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We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…
We propose a new method for creating computationally efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by using low-rank representations of convolutional filters. Rather than approximating filters in previously-trained networks with more…
Pruning on neural networks before training not only compresses the original models, but also accelerates the network training phase, which has substantial application value. The current work focuses on fine-grained pruning, which uses…
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…
As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…
Network pruning techniques, including weight pruning and filter pruning, reveal that most state-of-the-art neural networks can be accelerated without a significant performance drop. This work focuses on filter pruning which enables…
The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…
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…
In this paper, we propose a novel network training mechanism called "dynamic channel propagation" to prune the neural networks during the training period. In particular, we pick up a specific group of channels in each convolutional layer to…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve high performance in image classification tasks but are challenging to deploy on resource-limited hardware due to their large model sizes. To address this issue, we leverage Mutual Information, a…
Filter pruning is widely adopted to compress and accelerate the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but most previous works ignore the relationship between filters and channels in different layers. Processing each layer independently…
How much can pruning algorithms teach us about the fundamentals of learning representations in neural networks? And how much can these fundamentals help while devising new pruning techniques? A lot, it turns out. Neural network pruning has…
Kernel pruning methods have been proposed to speed up, simplify, and improve explanation of convolutional neural network (CNN) models. However, the effectiveness of a simplified model is often below the original one. In this letter, we…
A typical deep neural network (DNN) has a large number of trainable parameters. Choosing a network with proper capacity is challenging and generally a larger network with excessive capacity is trained. Pruning is an established approach to…
Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks,the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms…
With the general trend of increasing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model sizes, model compression and acceleration techniques have become critical for the deployment of these models on edge devices. In this paper, we provide a…
We propose a local modelling approach using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine-grained image classification. Recently, deep CNNs trained from large datasets have considerably improved the performance of object recognition.…
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…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are hard to deploy on edge devices due to its high computation and storage complexities. As a common practice for model compression, network pruning consists of two major categories: unstructured and…
The most common method for DNN pruning is hard thresholding of network weights, followed by retraining to recover any lost accuracy. Recently developed smart pruning algorithms use the DNN response over the training set for a variety of…