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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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Aditya Sharma , Nikolas Wolfe , Bhiksha Raj

While deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, they typically require massive training data. Due to the presence of redundancies and biases in real-world datasets, not all data in the training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Suorong Yang , Hongchao Yang , Suhan Guo , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

The unmatched ability of Deep Neural Networks in capturing complex patterns in large and noisy datasets is often associated with their large hypothesis space, and consequently to the vast amount of parameters that characterize model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Enrico Ballini , Luca Muscarnera , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti , Francesco Regazzoni

Model compression techniques reduce the computational load and memory consumption of deep neural networks. After the compression operation, e.g. parameter pruning, the model is normally fine-tuned on the original training dataset to recover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Adrian Holzbock , Achyut Hegde , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Machine unlearning aims to efficiently eliminate the memory about deleted data from trained models and address the right to be forgotten. Despite the success of existing unlearning algorithms, unlearning in sparse models has not yet been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yang Xiao , Gen Li , Jie Ji , Ruimeng Ye , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often over-parameterized for their tasks and can be compressed quite drastically by removing weights, a process called pruning. We investigate the impact of different pruning techniques on the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jonathan von Rad , Florian Seuffert

In this paper we propose a novel method for learning how algorithms perform. Classically, algorithms are compared on a finite number of existing (or newly simulated) benchmark datasets based on some fixed metrics. The algorithm(s) with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Henry Wilde , Vincent Knight , Jonathan Gillard

Dataset pruning -- selecting a small yet informative subset of training data -- has emerged as a promising strategy for efficient machine learning, offering significant reductions in computational cost and storage compared to alternatives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ryota Yagi

Deep learning has been able to outperform humans in terms of classification accuracy in many tasks. However, to achieve robustness to adversarial perturbations, the best methodologies require to perform adversarial training on a much larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Javier Maroto , Pascal Frossard

Pruning techniques have been successfully used in neural networks to trade accuracy for sparsity. However, the impact of network pruning is not uniform: prior work has shown that the recall for underrepresented classes in a dataset may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Aidan Good , Jiaqi Lin , Hannah Sieg , Mikey Ferguson , Xin Yu , Shandian Zhe , Jerzy Wieczorek , Thiago Serra

In this work, we investigate whether small language models can determine high-quality subsets of large-scale text datasets that improve the performance of larger language models. While existing work has shown that pruning based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zachary Ankner , Cody Blakeney , Kartik Sreenivasan , Max Marion , Matthew L. Leavitt , Mansheej Paul

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hongru Yang , Yingbin Liang , Xiaojie Guo , Lingfei Wu , Zhangyang Wang

Pruning deep neural networks is a widely used strategy to alleviate the computational burden in machine learning. Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that pruned models retain very high accuracy even with a tiny fraction of parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Viplove Arora , Daniele Irto , Sebastian Goldt , Guido Sanguinetti

Machine unlearning -- efficiently removing the effect of a small "forget set" of training data on a pre-trained machine learning model -- has recently attracted significant research interest. Despite this interest, however, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kristian Georgiev , Roy Rinberg , Sung Min Park , Shivam Garg , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry , Seth Neel

In this paper, we propose a novel data-pruning approach called moving-one-sample-out (MoSo), which aims to identify and remove the least informative samples from the training set. The core insight behind MoSo is to determine the importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Fei Du , Yukang Chen , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Deep learning has grown tremendously over recent years, yielding state-of-the-art results in various fields. However, training such models requires huge amounts of data, increasing the computational time and cost. To address this, dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Margarita Osadchy

How to develop slim and accurate deep neural networks has become crucial for real- world applications, especially for those employed in embedded systems. Though previous work along this research line has shown some promising results, most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xin Dong , Shangyu Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan

Widely observed neural scaling laws, in which error falls off as a power of the training set size, model size, or both, have driven substantial performance improvements in deep learning. However, these improvements through scaling alone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ben Sorscher , Robert Geirhos , Shashank Shekhar , Surya Ganguli , Ari S. Morcos

Over the last century, deep learning models have become the state-of-the-art for solving complex computer vision problems. These modern computer vision models have millions of parameters, which presents two major challenges: (1) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Florian Merkle , David Weber , Pascal Schöttle , Stephan Schlögl , Martin Nocker

Dataset distillation is the technique of synthesizing smaller condensed datasets from large original datasets while retaining necessary information to persist the effect. In this paper, we approach the dataset distillation problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Mingyang Chen , Bo Huang , Junda Lu , Bing Li , Yi Wang , Minhao Cheng , Wei Wang