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We present a provable, sampling-based approach for generating compact Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) by identifying and removing redundant filters from an over-parameterized network. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Lucas Liebenwein , Cenk Baykal , Harry Lang , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

We develop a fast, tractable technique called Net-Trim for simplifying a trained neural network. The method is a convex post-processing module, which prunes (sparsifies) a trained network layer by layer, while preserving the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Justin Romberg

To compress deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with large memory footprint and long inference time, this paper proposes a novel pruning criterion using layer-wised Ln-norm of feature maps. Different from existing pruning criteria,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Wei Wang , Liqiang Zhu

Recent works show that reducing the number of layers in a convolutional neural network can enhance efficiency while maintaining the performance of the network. Existing depth compression methods remove redundant non-linear activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jinuk Kim , Marwa El Halabi , Mingi Ji , Hyun Oh Song

In many domains, the most successful AI models tend to be the largest, indeed often too large to be handled by AI players with limited computational resources. To mitigate this, a number of compression methods have been developed, including…

Since the breakthrough performance of AlexNet in 2012, convolutional neural networks (convnets) have grown into extremely powerful vision models. Deep learning researchers have used convnets to perform vision tasks with accuracy that was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Andrew Lavin

Structured pruning techniques have achieved great compression performance on convolutional neural networks for image classification task. However, the majority of existing methods are weight-oriented, and their pruning results may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yiheng Lu , Ziyu Guan , Yaming Yang , Maoguo Gong , Wei Zhao , Kaiyuan Feng

Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Elliot J. Crowley , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Large CNNs have delivered impressive performance in various computer vision applications. But the storage and computation requirements make it problematic for deploying these models on mobile devices. Recently, tensor decompositions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Cheng Tai , Tong Xiao , Yi Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Weinan E

We propose an efficient transfer learning method for adapting ImageNet pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to fine-grained image classification task. Conventional transfer learning methods typically face the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Xiangxi Mo , Ruizhe Cheng , Tianyi Fang

As deep neural networks include a high number of parameters and operations, it can be a challenge to implement these models on devices with limited computational resources. Despite the development of novel pruning methods toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Morteza Homayounfar , Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam , Reza Rawassizadeh , Varut Vardhanabhuti

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performance in various applications. However, CNNs are resource-hungry due to their requirement of high computational complexity and memory storage. Recent efforts toward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Arshdeep Singh , Mark D. Plumbley

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

Structured pruning can simplify network architecture and improve inference speed. Combined with the underlying hardware and inference engine in which the final model is deployed, better results can be obtained by using latency collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Siyuan Pan , Linna Zhang , Jie Zhang , Xiaoshuang Li , Liang Hou , Xiaobing Tu

Neural network pruning is frequently used to compress over-parameterized networks by large amounts, while incurring only marginal drops in generalization performance. However, the impact of pruning on networks that have been highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Sayan Ghosh , Karthik Prasad , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Bichen Wu , Graham Cormode , Peter Vajda

Network compression techniques have become increasingly important in recent years because the loads of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are heavy for edge devices in real-world applications. While many methods compress neural network parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kuan-Ting Tu , Po-Hsien Yu , Yu-Syuan Tseng , Shao-Yi Chien

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been applied in numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices for multifarious downstream tasks. However, with the increasing amount of data on edge devices, CNNs can hardly complete some tasks in time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Zidu Wang , Xuexin Liu , Long Huang , Yunqing Chen , Yufei Zhang , Zhikang Lin , Rui Wang

Pruning the parameters and structure of neural networks reduces the computational complexity, energy consumption, and latency during inference. Recently, a novel underlying mechanism for successful deep learning (DL) was presented based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yarden Tzach , Yuval Meir , Ronit D. Gross , Ofek Tevet , Ella Koresh , Ido Kanter

Channel pruning is a promising method for accelerating and compressing convolutional neural networks. However, current pruning algorithms still remain unsolved problems that how to assign layer-wise pruning ratios properly and discard the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yihao Chen , Zefang Wang