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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

Network pruning is widely used for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep models in low-resource settings. A typical pruning algorithm is a three-stage pipeline, i.e., training (a large model), pruning and fine-tuning. During pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhuang Liu , Mingjie Sun , Tinghui Zhou , Gao Huang , Trevor Darrell

In recent years, deeper and wider neural networks have shown excellent performance in computer vision tasks, while their enormous amount of parameters results in increased computational cost and overfitting. Several methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Kakeru Mitsuno , Yuichiro Nomura , Takio Kurita

Structured pruning is an effective approach for compressing large pre-trained neural networks without significantly affecting their performance. However, most current structured pruning methods do not provide any performance guarantees, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Marwa El Halabi , Suraj Srinivas , Simon Lacoste-Julien

In recent years, deep neural networks have known a wide success in various application domains. However, they require important computational and memory resources, which severely hinders their deployment, notably on mobile devices or for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Convolutional neural network (CNN) pruning has become one of the most successful network compression approaches in recent years. Existing works on network pruning usually focus on removing the least important filters in the network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Zi Wang , Chengcheng Li , Xiangyang Wang

Artificial neural network pruning is a method in which artificial neural network sizes can be reduced while attempting to preserve the predicting capabilities of the network. This is done to make the model smaller or faster during inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Alexandre Broggi , Nathaniel Bastian , Lance Fiondella , Gokhan Kul

We propose a new gradient-based approach for extracting sub-architectures from a given large model. Contrarily to existing pruning methods, which are unable to disentangle the network architecture and the corresponding weights, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Nicolo Colombo , Yang Gao

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

In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for automatic channel pruning of very deep neural networks. We first train a PruningNet, a kind of meta network, which is able to generate weight parameters for any pruned structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Zechun Liu , Haoyuan Mu , Xiangyu Zhang , Zichao Guo , Xin Yang , Tim Kwang-Ting Cheng , Jian Sun

Contemporary state-of-the-art neural networks have increasingly large numbers of parameters, which prevents their deployment on devices with limited computational power. Pruning is one technique to remove unnecessary weights and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sahel Mohammad Iqbal , Subhankar Mishra

State-of-the-art neural networks are getting deeper and wider. While their performance increases with the increasing number of layers and neurons, it is crucial to design an efficient deep architecture in order to reduce computational and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Hengyuan Hu , Rui Peng , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

To solve ever more complex problems, Deep Neural Networks are scaled to billions of parameters, leading to huge computational costs. An effective approach to reduce computational requirements and increase efficiency is to prune unnecessary…

Structural pruning of neural network parameters reduces computation, energy, and memory transfer costs during inference. We propose a novel method that estimates the contribution of a neuron (filter) to the final loss and iteratively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Pavlo Molchanov , Arun Mallya , Stephen Tyree , Iuri Frosio , Jan Kautz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the key to the state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor fusion and audio/video signal processing. Unfortunately, their computation complexity and tight resource constraints on the Edge make them hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ranko Sredojevic , Shaoyi Cheng , Lazar Supic , Rawan Naous , Vladimir Stojanovic

Structured pruning is a popular method to reduce the cost of convolutional neural networks, that are the state of the art in many computer vision tasks. However, depending on the architecture, pruning introduces dimensional discrepancies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Hugo Tessier , Vincent Gripon , Mathieu Léonardon , Matthieu Arzel , David Bertrand , Thomas Hannagan

Network pruning and knowledge distillation are two widely-known model compression methods that efficiently reduce computation cost and model size. A common problem in both pruning and distillation is to determine compressed architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Dongqi Wang , Shengyu Zhang , Zhipeng Di , Xin Lin , Weihua Zhou , Fei Wu

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) especially deep convolutional networks are very popular these days and have been proved to successfully offer quite reliable solutions to many vision problems. However, the use of deep neural networks is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yangzi Guo , Yiyuan She , Adrian Barbu